The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-23
BOARD OF REVENUE
GOES OVER ROADS
inspection Trip to Argo Was
Made Yesterday
ROAD IN FINE CONDITION
VIII Soon Be Extended To Join Main
Highway Through ST. Clair
County, Which Is Being
improved.
ROAD IN FINE CONDITION
B. H. COOPER.

Several members of the Birmingham
Motor club, accompanying the memb ers
of the Jefferson county Board of Rev
enue, took an automobile trip yester-
day morning to Argo, in the extreme
northeastern part of the county for the
purpose of inspecting the road which
leads to the st. Clair county boundary.
The entire membership of the Board
of Revenue took the trip with the au-
tomobilists and all express their sat
isfaction as to the general condition
of the road. With few repairs tho
high way will be one of the finest in
the county and as good macadam
road as there is in this part of the
state.
Two automobiles carried the party.
G. T. Brazelton. secretary of the Mo-
tor club, framed the trip The party
left the city yesterday morning at IL
o'clock and returned in the afternoon
about 2:30 o'clock, having made the
trip of A miles without breakdown.
The road leading to the st. Clair
county line was. closely inspected for
the full distance between Irondale and
small bridges and cu1verts and the APP
proaches to two large bridges the high
way was found to be in excellent con-
dition.
Memoranda of all of these defects
were made and Job Going, president
of the boasd, turned the notes over to
the road supervisor in charge of the
piece of road with instructions to be-
gin work making the necessary re-
pairs next Monday. The highway will
be put in the best possible condition.
When the few minor repairs on this
road have been completed It will give
Jefferson county a good first class road
leading into ST. Clair county. An ex-
cellent macadam highway is being built
by the st. Clair county commissioners
toward the Jefferson county line and
the road has already been built within
two miles Of the dividing line. 1t Will
join with the road which was inspected
yesterday and 1t Is stated that the two
roads will be connected within two
weeks, although the st. Clair county
road will, of course, not be entirely
completed.
The trip yesterday proved most en-
joyable one as we'll as being of great
benefit to the Board of Revenue by
way of the excellent opportunity it
furnished for an inspection. Through
cooperation with the Birmingham Mo-
tor club the commissioners will inspect
all of the roads in the county in the
manner in which the Irondale road was
inspected yesterday.
1t is stated that the Board of Rev
enue has just about expended the full
amount of money allotted them by the
county for the construction of new
roads, and for the repair of the old
ones. Contracts have been let for
number of roads which are not yet
completed and which will hardly be
finished before the early fall Much
work has been done In the way of road
building since the advent of the pres
ent Board of Revenue and much work
is still under way.
The Board of Revenue, however, has
had but little time to inspect the work
which has been and is being DONE but
the whole system of roads in JEFFERSON
county will now be gone over in order
that the commissioners may see the
nature Of work which has been done
and correct any defects left unnoticed
by the contractors building the high
ways.
The members of the Birmingham Mo-
tor club are naturally greatly inter-
ested in good roads and have started
in to assist the Board of Revenue in
every way possible to keep the coun-
tv highways in the best Of shape.
From time to time trips like that of
Yesterday will be taken when the COM
missioners are at leisure.
All of the members of the board were
greatly pleased with the trip and are
satisfied with the general condition of
the road as they found 1t. 1--WE found
the road in good shape" said DR..
Lovelady, one of the commissioners.
yesterday afternoon upon returning,
land IL all Of the county roads were
equally as good there would be but
little justifable complaint coming from
any portion of the county"
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