The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-04-26
Some Suggestions About Good
Roads.

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little beir 2 done in the way Of good
road all over the | nite d a e..
see a letter from JUICE W. H.
Jebh ms q last weeks News, and,
smorg other things, telling VIA. is
being done in the va5 Of road build.
ing n this county am sure that
our couu'y Idgs is doing al tina.
be can aud q that be has time to
do, in trying to better the public
roads in McLennan county. Now
don't see why something more
can't be done; and | see no reason
~hy We need talk about this matter
for years ID years aud do nothing.
The work that has been done with
the county grading out-h. is good
a. far As It goes Blu. ! think that
the off .ers and citizens of McLen-
nan county sho1ld continue to i'm.
prove onr roads and at a more RAPID
rate than mas yet been done.
10 j. W. K ggius' suggestion TO
The amer and Waco trade terri.
tory, be asks for suggestions that
will promote ou- mutual interest,
and ! think that good graveled
roads, roads that viii not get
muddy at any season OF the year,
sill DO more - biz people to their
county, and do more good to the
greatest number OF people than any
one thing TIA. can be done, and
while other people are talk
ing, why not the citizens
Of Mel. imam go to work AMI do
something. Be the first to have
good roads. AS j. w. higgins
says in his letter about the welfare
Of Waco and her trading territory,
good roads all over the county Will
oenefit every citizen in it. 1t would
bent ii the people of Waco as we'll
as the tarmers. Ii is very often
the case in the winter that country
produce goes up IN prices tecause
the roads are SO bad that the farmer
>a4't get TO town with what ne has
to sell
1t is true that if the roads were
aiwsys good the farmer would lose
these high prices IN bad weather,
hut then he could market his stuff
when the groutd nai too wet
to work and then aff ford to
to take little less for it as it is now
when it is too wet to piow, it is toe
wet TO carry load to town.
Now, would suggest something
like thus, that every school district
III the c3unty Gu a meeting and
discuss the ways and means Of gooc
roads, and instruct delegates tc
meet with the citizens OF Waco. alc
then settle on some plan by which
We can improve the county road
a. more rapid rate. Now. | woulc
sue gest a plan of operation some
,, thing like the following: That tn,
bridge and road tax be increased t.
at least 25 cents per Sl00 and tal
! of at least s per capita be adde(
to the roa fund.
Now there are great many men
no doubt, that wouti object to thei
per capita tax, as they can't see how
good roads will benefit them any
But think it would benefit ever,
one III the county. For good road
will invite immigration, and tn
more people the more wealth. TIL
more farmers we have the NOR
stuff we will raise, and the NOR
we will buy; so you will need NOR
merchants, more manufacturers, AM
J. the more work for the wageworker
Now, to the tax that we suggest
Add all the work of the county N
victs, let them work out their II ue
on the roads and thus stop thei
competition with honest labor
= thick that every county should tax
care Of their state convicts an
E work them on the roads.
But az least each county coul
:, work the county convlcts on tn
= road. AS Juog, Jenkins say,
- - every land owner along the lin
; of the road should subscribe t
the road fund according to tn
, amount of land he had and the goo
that he would derive from goo
i. roa is. Working on plan som'
thing like l have suggested, "
would in few Years have goo
roads all over the county.
}. hope soon to see some man {