We are deeply interested in the matter of getting the State Convicts to work on the road that is to be built in our county, you are in a great measure familiar with the conditions that suround Hot Springs, but perhaps not all. We have been without a road to get into and out of Hot Springs every since the Southern Rail Way took the State road for its raod bed. We have been absolutely bottled up.

This raod thats to be built means more to Western N.C. than any thing else at this time, it will oppen up our state to the South and finish the conecting link from Asheville to Knoxville and points beyond.

There are Millions of feet of lumber and other things that can be worked as soon as this road is completed. Then again we think its only fair that we should have this road since the state allowed the Southern Rail Way to take the only road we had and our County has never received one cent for it except the benefits we have from the Rail Way, we have been waiting more than Thirty year for some chance to get a road and now that our county has bonded for $300,000, for roads and our Township has saved $5.000 more to help out in this matter and the $5.000 is ready at any moment, and the County has sold $50.000 of the bonds, so we are more than ready to see the work commence. There may be some good reason why the work has not commenced, but we hope you and the prison board will munipulate some scheme that we may see the work commenced right at once. really Gov, we are in a hurry, yet we do not want to appear impatient but a wait of more than Thirty years leaves us feeling a little thread bare on the edges of our patients. Hence, to longer wait means patches on our patients as well as our clothes.