Southern good roads . r the(Construction of a Road across the lilue Ridge in ]\Ic-Dowell Comity. The preamble of this act is givenbelow because it is of interest as it especially callsforth the fact that a small link of road in the one sec-tion of Nortii Carolina is of interest to the state as ;?.whole: Whereas, the public road across the Blue Ridge ijiMcDowell county from Old Fort to Ridgeciest isthrough a very sjiarsely settled country, and exceed-ingly difficult to build, and Whereas, this road is a con-necting link in the central highway from eastern andcentral North Carolina to western No
Southern good roads . r the(Construction of a Road across the lilue Ridge in ]\Ic-Dowell Comity. The preamble of this act is givenbelow because it is of interest as it especially callsforth the fact that a small link of road in the one sec-tion of Nortii Carolina is of interest to the state as ;?.whole: Whereas, the public road across the Blue Ridge ijiMcDowell county from Old Fort to Ridgeciest isthrough a very sjiarsely settled country, and exceed-ingly difficult to build, and Whereas, this road is a con-necting link in the central highway from eastern andcentral North Carolina to western North Car(j|ina andTennessee, and. AVhereas, it is a road of great scenic beauty and at-tractiveness that would be used by all the iicople ofthe state, tiavelling between the easfein and centra!section thereof and the western portimi theieof; , This interest of North Carolina in the puldic roadprolileiii has been gradual and consistent, and it is b--lieved that this inteicst will continue to grow and e.\-. B. & O. R. K., Street Bridge Across Creek and Muddy Earth Road at Hundred, Wetzel County, West Virginia. Nearly Axle Deep When This Photo Was Taken Mud Was 18 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS October, 1915 paiul until the time comes when the state will be usingall its able-bodied convicts in the construction of pub-lic roads, will be making appropriations to assist thecounties in the construction of the main highways ofthe state and will use all of the money obtained fromthe taxes of automobiles in the maintenance of themain aud through highways of the state. North Carolina is beginning now, as a state, to takeinterest in interstate as well as intereounty roads, andthis is evidenced by the passage of the resolution bythe general assembly of 1915 in regard to the SouthernNational Highway, as follows: ?Whereas, a commission appointed by the Govern-ors of all the Southern states met at Asheville, NorthCarolina, on February thirteenth, one thousand ninehundred and thirteen, and act
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