NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC SURVEY,
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.

July 15, 1913.

Governor Locke Craig,
Raleigh, North Carolina.

Dear Governor Craig:-

In regard to the convicts for the Madison County road, I sincerely hope that you will urge upon the Prison Board and the Council of State the need to detailing the convicts for that road at the earliest possible moment. As you are probably aware one of the arguments that induced the county commissioners of Madison County to issue $300,000 for road work was the fact that the State was going to help the county by giving them convicts with which to build a certain mileage of their roads, although this assistance was on account of the road that the State had promised to the county some years ago.

The county commissioners have passed the bond issue and have already sold $50,000 worth of the bonds to enable them to have money with which to supplement the work of the convicts, so that the work could begin at once. I sincerely hope that some arrangements can be made, so that we can get at least 30 convicts on that road before another month is out.

Thanking you for your consideration of the above, and for what assistance you can give us, I am

Yours sincerely,

Joseph Hyde Pratt
State Geologist.

JHP/GHE