“Proposed Bonds for Roads,” from the Hickory Daily Record, January 3, 1916
Progressive citizens in view of the legislative session have
begun discussion of a large bond issue for good roads and modern bridges
throughout the country. As much as $400,000 and $500,000 is urged, says the
Newton correspondent of the Greensboro News.
It is argued that the county, as a result of flood damage to
roads and bridges, will have to borrow this year $100,000. The 20-cent road tax
now paid by each township, it is said, is virtually wasted, because it is put
into dirt work, which must be renewed and rebuilt every so often, resulting in
no permanent benefit.
Under the law providing for the tax each township could
issue its own bonds, the county unit having been displaced for the township
unit; but outside of Hickory and Newton, no township could issue sufficient
bonds for its road needs and under the proposed measure, all these townships
could secure the expenditure of more money than the bonds for each would come
to. Should an act be passed, it is thought that it would provide for the
retirement of the $50,000 of bonds issued by Newton and by Hickory townships
for roads some years ago.
That a measure of this kind, provided the people voted for
the bonds, would set Catawba County 20 years ahead, is the opinion of a leading
business man. While great progress has been made in dairying and general
farming and education, Catawba has made little progress in good roads
construction, and some of the business men of the town feel that this session
of the general assembly ought not to be allowed to expire without the enactment
of an act calling for several hundred thousand dollars for bonds for modern
road work and the construction of the most improved and lasting bridges.
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