The Grenada sentinel., 1899-12-09
A VERY SENSIBLE. But HUMOROUS
ARTICLE.
On the Subject of Good Reads.
HARDY, Miss, Nov. 26Lh, 1899.

HARDY, Miss, Nov. 26lh. 1899.
Editor Sentincl-IH the last few
months | have read several very sensi-
BILE articles IN your paper in regard TO
good roads. bat as yet they have
brought no change-lhe rocks are s,iil
growing ana the gullies getting wider
and longer. Most of the roads in this
section, and suppose every where else
in The billy part Of the state. are what
one might term ory weather roads. ~
long as the weather is dry. very little
work is required, aud as soon As the
rainy season sells in, it is impo-s Die 20
do anything with them. know Of
several land Owners in this section who
have contributed an immense amount
, OF valuable real estate to the NalObusha
bottom in the iae' few years by the
washing OF the roads. which point in
that direction. You have noticed no
doubt. in the lurt few years that ii
great deal of land north of the river
! from Grenada has been reclaimed ard
now produces fine crops. This very
! land was made tillabe by the washiu-S
There are Il. 6. Bowlcs, Stokes Bros
Dr.. Martin and others, who never fail
to recognize their soil rs soon a- they
strike the river bottom, The road
which leaGs from 7. G.. Bowles to Gre
ada has dep o>ited soil enough in Ial-
obusbu bottom. If separated and sold
would bring money sufficient TO build a
cotton factory. There are other Hill
roads north Of town which furnish an
equal supply. What is the remedy:
Any sensible man will tell you the eIe-
men,s which 60 to make good roads are
II sensible overseer, good teams, imple~
mens aud pieuty of hands. twenty days
work in every month, few hours
thrown in between showers.
A few years ago on the Torrance and
Grenada road, some one had the mis-
fortune to have his wagon broken down.
He waited for six months, thinking Il
food would come along and move his
broken wagon out-he would not risk
another wagon to haul it away, for fear
he might have to leave the second one.
The ugliest part of a road, barring gull
lies, is rocks. Geologis.s tell Us that it
takes two hundred years to grow Il
rock after the land has been prepared.
Those men must have lived on some
part OF the earth when it was so poor
that they could not raise an umbrella.
On some Of the roads in my section. the
soil is so rich it produces fine crops
OF rocks in two months weighing from
10 to so pounds. Some one no doubt
will ask how 10 know this to be so?
On a certain part of the Cotfeevillc and
Hardy Station road the rocks are there
to speak for themselves. l remember
a few years ago our road inspector COM
PEELED all Overseers to throw all rocks
out of the roads. On this part of the
road the Overeeers took particular
pains to have everything in the shape
OF a rock thrown away. In two months
time there was as fine crop OF rocks
there as any one ever saw. They could
not have been the same ones as they
had different marks on them, and any,
one could see they were fresh crop.
l would advise our supervisor to hire
and station some good honest man At
this particular spot, and gather up the
rocks as the" mature, and in short
time there would be enough to build
that cotton factory they expect to have
iu Grenada In the near future. Good