The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1901-09-13
TENNESSEE GOOD ROADS.
Call Issued for Meeting of the Good
Roads Association October 9th
in Nashville.


Mr.. Robert L. Branch, secretary
of the Tennessee Good Roads Asso--
citation, has sent out his call for the
first meeting of that association
since its organization in Jackson in
June. The formal cali is issued by
President Hay, of Jackson, and the
other statements as clipped from the
Commercial Appeal are as follows:
1.-THE first meeting of the Tennes-
see Good Roads Association since
its organizations at jackson, in June,
will be held in Nashville October 8.
1.-The purpose of the association is
to create sentiment which will
lead to a more widespread interest
in the building of enduring high
WAYS in Tennessee.
at costs the farmers of the United
States nearly three times more than
those of Europe to market an equal.
tonnage of farm product over pris
mary roads. nc co is the farmers or
tennessee nearly twice as much as
81 does the States where road con-
struction and road maintenance are
a science and a business. If the
farmer could get his product to a.
market or railroad station IN any
weather and at all seasons, both his
productive and his purchasing
power would be considerably in
creased.
s'At least 5000, 600 of the money
paid in by Tennessee taxpayers for
road building goes to q useless army
of 'warners-in, etc. OF the whole
amount raised for road building and
maintenance the portion ultimately
reaching the road is distressingly
small. Our purpose is, to have
placed on the statute books law
that will make every cent of taxes
now paid for roads effective.
SIT is the intention of the officers
of the association that it shall be a
permanent body. There is work to
be done for a hundred years. The
more we progress the more work
there will be to do, aud the broader
will be the scope. "
The Judge or chairman Of each
County Court in the State is asked
to name FIVE delegates, the presi-
dents of chambers of commerce, re-
tail merchants associations and
boards Of trade FIVE delegates, and
MAYORS of cities five delegates. It
is requested that only those be
named who will take an interest in
the. movement and be present. All
who signed the roll at Jackson are
members of the association and are
expected to be present.
The two resolutions introduced
by ESQ. G. ID. Harwood, OF Davidson
county; at the Jackson meeting will
come M for consideration. Thew
are: al THAT the different coan-
ties instruct their representatives
in the General Assembly to support
bill giving to each county the
right to work all cOnvicts sentenced
to a shorter period than five years,
on the public roads. % THAT
1.-The Good Roads Association lnaks
faRolaaiy upon every effort TO con-
vert the turnpikes of the State into
free public highways.
The programme will consist of
discussions of the road problem by
practical men engineers, road
builders and others who have given
thought TO the question. A stretch
of road will be graded, drained,
macadamized and completed so that
the advantages of common sense
road building will be apparent. The
United States government has been
requested to send a man to the con-
vention to give stereopticon views
of roads, good and bad, in this
country and Europe. Officers OF
the National Good Roads Associa-
ton have also been invited to be
| present and make addresses.