Pocahontas Times

Amos J. Sharp was down from Poage Lane Monday, and he reported good progress on the new road around Slippery Hill. H. L. Kessler is in charge, and a good road on a good grade is being made. The new road leaves the old one at the top of the hill and follows a bench around to the head of Limestone hollow, thence across the ridge to Laurel Run near the residence of Amos J. Sharp, thence down the run to the old road near Elbert Hannahs gate, a total distance of a mile and a quarter. At no place is the grade steeper than four and a half percent, and not much of it is that steep. The new road cuts out three or four hills and many dangerous turns, and increases the distance less than two thousand feet.