The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-07-04
AN AWAKENING SUGGESTED
By one of the COunty's Most
Progressive Citizens
The Meaning Of Good Roads to
Grenada County
Roads to Grenada That Will Avoid the
Hills. A Matter Of Interest to Both
Farmers and Merchants. An Arti
Gle of Interest TO Sentinel
Readers
EDITOR Sc ENTINEt::

EDITOR SENTINEL
The greatest need of Grenada and
surrounding territory today, aside
from the opening up of the Yalobusha
river for boats and the lower freight
rates resulting therefrOm, is good
roads. Good roads, are attainable if
the people, both in the county and
town, will unite in fixed determina-
tion TO have them, nothing is more
indicative of the advanced civilization
Of people than good roads. That
has been the history of all ages,
judged by this standard what scale in
the worlds civilization would we
occupy? Grenada is logically situat-
ed for large. commercial center, yet
owing to the barrier Of almost i'm
possible roads, she has been shut out
OF a great deal of trade which natur-
ally would come here if it could. and
the town is still a village, compared
to the possibilities Of the future, il
she will only awake to the advantage
she can easily obtain fCom concert
ed effort Of the people to get that
wtich is rightfully hers. Grenada
merchants as whole have a better
financial rating than that enjoyed by
any other town in this section of the
state, ard are making money but
| we have not a merchant whe is not
| capable of carrying On a largely in
creased business, and who wcald not
| be willing to accept the large profits
from such increase.
Or : very 'c1nScrvatiTe estimate,
| the business OF the town c@ul0 be IN
creased 335 per cent by the building
Of good roads and the people Of the
county would be saved thousands Of
dollars annually in the wear and tear
Of vechicles and injury to stock from
having to haul freigh6 over the hOr-
rible roads they have to traverse
Railroads are always built along the
valleys, seeking the routes of least
| resistance and eaiSeSI of access, re-
ducng grades to the minimum. The
dirt roads OF this county seem TO have
been selected and laid out over the
| toughest and hiliieSt section of the
country unmindfull of the fact that
| lever roads with practically no grades
could ave been obtained and Operat-
ed much more easily and far less ex-
pensively in the valleys leading into
Grenad&. Six different valley roads
could be built into Grenada which,
| if instructed. would prove an incal-
cuiable blessing IT, our farming COM
mubitieS, leSSenirg the cost OF traLS-
portati0n # products TO market of
| over one half Of what IL now costs
| them to market their crops. MeSSrS
| ". r. Baker, 5. I. Tatum and Sam
| Elliott have patrioticslly agreed TO
give t0 the county the rights Of way
for a lY32d through Ihesr farms Uti the
nurth side Of the YalGbuSba river.
This road when opened zap will enable
one TO so from here to CaSclla over
valley road nearly all the way, and !
will be great help TO that part of
country. II other farmers ou the |
south side of the Yalobusha river !
west Of Grenada from Mr.. &. III. Guys !
plantatiu near HolcOmb would do |
likewise, level road woxld be OBJ
tanned through d fine co2ntry and |
SOIllo vi .CttS NOlSU Ellio III CtfS COUNTY
would be avoided. The Same charac-
ter Of ROADS could be easily opened up |
east Of Grenada form here to GrayS-
port or even to WilliamSville up the
YalobuSha valley. On the north east
the old Harrison turnpike could he le-
paired and the road worked to Tor
rance and from the Torrance road in
the old Mister place road could be
opened and a bridge constructed
across Schooner river, tapping the
Coffeeville and GraySp0rt road and
drawing largely on that territory.
One of the smOst important road
improvements that could be made
would be to leave the public road
about quarter Of mile east the
Col A. s. Pass place and build a
road down the Pass creek valley to
Bogue thence on the east Side of the
Bogue connecting with the public
road north east of the tie plant.
The building of this road would |
bring back to Grenada that trade |
which she has lost to Duck Hill and |
Eupora eliminating the necessity Of |
their having to travel over the ex-
tremely high hills from here to COL
A. S. Pass's place. Another great
improvement would be the public
road up the west side Of the railroad
from Elliott to Simpson switch MAX
ing level road from here to Elliott.
The writer has talked over opening
up of these roads with many Of our