Attorneys appearing for citizens of Rockingham county in the injunction proceedings against the board of commissioners to have that body stopped from building a bridge across Dan river at Fishing creek, near Leaksville, took an appeal to the Supreme court when Judge Thos. J. Shaw of Winston-Salem dissolved the injunction. Attorneys asked Judge Shaw to bond the signers and stay his decision in order that the case might be heard before work on the bridge had gone too far. This request was refused.
Some of the citizens are talking about calling a mass-meeting at the county seat and making a protest to the commissioners. They think this is the only way to halt the expenditure for the reason that by the time the appeal is reached, the bridge will either have been completed or work reached to such an advanced stage that the appeal will be in vain.
Those who oppose the bridge (and the opposition is stiff) maintain that the building of this bridge is a needless expenditure of the county’s funds; that appropriations made during the past few days will run the bonded indebtedness of the county to upwards of $3 million; that already there are other bridges within a few miles of the one proposed; and there is absolutely no necessity for this bridge except for the direct benefit of one or two property owners.
On the other hand, those favoring building the bridge argue that it will open up a new territory; that it will considerably shorten the distance between Reidsville and Spray; that it is only a question of time when a large manufacturing plant will start operations in close distance to the bridge.
In the meantime the commissioners will proceed to build this much-discussed bridge.
From the front page of The Reidsville Review, Monday, June 11, 1923
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