Mr, raider-hater needs to up date his info before he goes on a rant, these people have asked no tax payer to give him anything but according to current figures, this county gets 81% of its gross revenues from agriculture and some consideration should be given to the people who have gone to such a great expense to construct enormous chicken houses only to discover that wells in their area are insufficent to supply the quanities that are needed, but 2 miles away there exits an ample supply of county water to solve the problem, and factor in the fact that richmond county was given agriculture funds to construct and operate a farmers marker in our county, after building it in the worst possible location and seeing it operate at a loss for several years, they sold it and put the proceeds in the general county fund, from which it disappeared into vapor, now that money was intended for agriculture use, so all they have to do is find it and use it to put in a water line.

even a raider-hater should not object to this.

Where is farm credit and the agriculture commissioner, this should be easy for them, look for a grant and keep in mind that all the residents will pay a tap fee in their homes and other things besides chicken houses and when the new line is up and working it will belong to the county not the farmers and the farmers will pay a bill for useage every month.

Mr Raider-hater is way off base here, these people don`t want charity from anyone,they want the county to construct a water line on state highway right of way past the area, at which point they will pay a fee to tap on the county line and begin purchasing water every month from the county, now the county uses the excuse that they have no money, but these same commission.

ers(mostly)sold the old farmers market and put the proceeds into the general fund, so they need to see how much money was involved and set it aside to be used for agriculture endeavors, after all that was the original intention of the money

After all is said and done it is the right thing to do.

Agriculture and farm operations represented 81% of Richmond Countys employment, and Perdue was by far the largest employer.

When Jesse Yeargen was countymanager he rented a big line digging machine and when the county employees were not too busy, whey put in a lot of water lines and saved us all a lot of money, God bless Mr. Yeargen who has since passed away.

Help us out Raider-Hater, you seem to know something about the process

louis b long

I like what Tom writes and surely agree with him, I wish he would ride down to the Old Cheraw road, near where the Sunny Acres farm is and just look at the many new chicken houses that various people have built, maybe then he could offer them some advice on how to get the county to run water to their chicken operations, they all need water and one of the owners has to use a big truck with a very large tank to haul water to his houses.

Something needs to be, and should be done to help them but no help can be gotten from the county commissioners, they just shy away from them.

Maybe, out there somewhere in Grant City, there is a grant or something that they don`t know about.

Help them out Tom.

thank you,

louis