Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-09-17
SUMTER ADVERTISING
is GOING ON
Good Roads Praised in
Every Direction.

If there is any set of men in Sum-
ter county who are enthusiastic on
the subject of good roads it is the
membership of the Americus Board Of
Trade. There is never a meeting of
that body when the subject is not
broached from some standpoint, and
the discussion that ensues is so gen
orally engaged in as to demonstrate
clearly the intense interest that is
felt and the general realization of the
members that there is no agency that
will do so much for the upbuilding
of Sumter county and Americus as
the construction of well graded and
well drained highways from one end
OF the county to the other.
At the meeting ON Tuesday night
the question was up again This time
the advertising element came into
prominence. Reference was made to
several parties from a distance who
had recently visited the city in their
autos and who were profuse in their
praises of the new Smithville road
and some other of the new county
roads over which they had travelled.
Wherever these people co. said
Mr.. Frank Sheffield, they will carry
word about the good road system that
is being built up here in Sumter coup-
ty. That will be as fine an advertise
ment as we could possibly desire.
Mr. WInsloW, the government good
roads expert, recently here. told me
that he had found frequent references
III the newspapers to the goods roads
OF Sumter, and that it was his inten-
ton to hold them up wherever he
went as evidences of what could be
done under proper management in
the use of the native soil hereabouts,
Our good roads are going to be
a tremendous factor in building up
the county and drawing new settlers
to Sumter" continued Mr.. Sheffield.
1T is notoriously the fact that men
seeking farms now want them located
either directly on or convenient to
good highways. The progressive far
mers coming into Georgia are thor
oughly alive to the advantages that
accrue from good roads. And not
only that, but the benefits our present
citizens derive from them are enor-
nous. | wager there is not land
owner along the new Smithville road,
or any of the other recently improv-
ed roads, but considers that the value
of his property has been enhanced by
the work the county forces have done
None of them would sell his farm for
what he would have sold it for before
the fine highways were put in by
them. So it will be elsewhere in the
county. And there is an another fea-
ture, too, that is to be considered.
The man who has a farm on a first
class highway is not so apt to want
to get out of farming. He finds it
makes such a difference in his abil-
ity to handle his supplies and his
crops, and to get to the town when
ever he wishes to, that the charm of
country life is decidedly enhanced
thereby
Inside of year or two" continued
Mr.. Sheffield, Sumter county will
have roads that ara mn to do+o +ro
versing it in every direction. Take
ten roads twenty miles long, cutting
through the county in every direction,
and every farmer would be convent
ent to, if not on, an improved road
over which travel would be easy.
That is what we are working for, to
put every farmer within easy access of
any part of the county"