The following editorial appeared in Monday’s Charlotte Observer:
As we understand the situation, a part of the $65 million road bond money left over, much of it is “allocated.” There are several important gaps yet to be filled in, and one of these is the highway leading from the Wilkesboros to Taylorsville. The distance is about 20 miles and with completion of this road, the dreams which have inspired the people of Wilkes county for an outlet this way will be realized. There is a hard-surface stretch from Charlotte to Statesville and Taylorsville—and there, like the old June Bug, it ends. The people of Wilkes have made renewed efforts to interest the State Highway Commission in completion of this road from Taylorsville to Wilkesboro, the county road commission having made formal and rather earnest applications in relief . . . .
The road southward from the Wilkesboros via Taylorsville and Statesville is already hard-surfaced to Taylorsville and largely used by our citizens, and more especially during the winter months, even in trips in the section of Winston-Salem, High Point and Greensboro, offers to our people the most promising prospect of an outlet southward and eastward to a connection with the State system of hard-surfaced roads. The distance from Wilkesboro to Taylorsville is 20 miles, 10 miles in the sixth district, Alexander county, and 10 miles in the seventh district, Wilkes county, of which five miles have been graded for hard surface and concrete structures built, from Moravian Falls to Alexander county line.
It is therefore resolved by the Good Roads Commission of Wilkes county that “we respectfully ask the State Highway Commission, as early as may be, to authorize and establish a project for the hard surfacing of Highway No. 67, from North Wilkesboro to the Wilkes-Alexander line, or if that is found impracticable this year, then, at least, to Moravian Falls, with the view of completing the hard surfacing of the link between Wilkesboro and Taylorsville as soon as possible.”
This is the proper sprit of approach and The Observer feels quite safe in advancing one proposition. It is this: No man in the State realizes the situation and opportunity more keenly than Commissioner Wilkinson, and the people of Wilkes may depend upon him for a vigorous prosecution of his share in the contract. Completion of the short link of 20 miles would establish important connection for the people of a vast section who have hoped and worked for an outlet this way for years.
From the front page of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, February 11, 1925
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