The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-30
FEVER FOR GOOD
ROADS CATCHING
Chesterfield Making Rapid Strides
in This Direction - Super
visors Get Busy.
HIGHWAYS TO EXPOSITION
Efforts Will Be Directed Espc-
cially Towards Improving Au-
tornobile Highways.
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CHESTERFIELD C. H., VA. January
29.--The fever for good roads in Chester
field county has struck the enterprising
supervisor from Manchester district, am
at the meeting OF the board OF supervisors
yesterday he prayed permission to borrow
$1,000. in addition to his regular district
fund, for Immediate work on the roads
of Manchester district The motion fall
ed of material results, however, the chair
man ruling that without favorable vote
of majority OF the electorate of Man
chester district the loan could not be
secured
Tho expected action of the board in
equipping an auxiliary road force SIM
liar to the force of twenty State con-
victs now employed by the county road
superintendent, by combining the dis
trict funds, did not materialize. and the
matter went over To the February meet
ings. Efforts are being made to have
those roads most likely to be traversed
by highway tourists to the jamestown
Exposition put In as good shape as pos
sibe this spring, especially the Manches-
ter and Petersburg Turnpike.
The sum of sl,3s1.5o was paid into
the county treasury for 1895 capitation
| taxes RENTED by the Auditor of Public
| Accounts. and about $500 was also paid
| In by the county clerk for delinquent
| taxes collected since August.
Permission was granted the James RiY-
| err Coal Corporation. which owns many
acres of land at and near Midlothian, and
desires TO rebuild highway bridge across
| the Southern Railway, on the Midlothian
| Pike, to delay travel for periods OF three
hours at time while the bridge is being
| rebuilt Mr.. Meriwether Jones. of Rich
| mond represented the Coal Company.
| and will act with the county surveyor In
| LAYING out a new public road near Mid
| lothian.
| May Ship Cattle Over James.
| DR.. j. A. Herman, United States cattle
! Inspector in charge OF Virginia and North
| Carolina, with Mr.. b. e. Emory. govern
I ment agent in tick eradication, appeared
before the meeting to-day in behalf 81
| the work OF cattle inspection in this
| section. Chesterfield cattle. after being
| duly inspected and found uninfected with
| ticks. may now be shipped to markets
| north of the James River only between
| December 18th and March 18th of each
| year The mo fence" law. which vii
become operative throughout the whole
county III April, preventing thereafter
the ranging of cattle promiscuously, to-
| gether with systematic cattle Inspector
and disinfection. and quarantning OF
| farms infested with the Texas ticks. tbs
government men think. will be the mean!
of lifting the quarantine against cattle
in this county for every month in thu
year, before the close of 1901.
A pesthouse for the confinement of in
digent persons having contagious diseases
especially smallpox, has been erected OIL
the county aimshouse property, and
now ready for use. Smallpox Is still
reported to be in Matoaca district. blu
no applications have been made for ad
mission to the pesthouse. The boart
thinks the smallpox expense. which SOM
years amounts to thousands of dollars
will be materially diminished by tn
dread of being transported to the pest
house.
The matter of widening Hull Street II
Swansboro was continued.