Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-10-02
ANNUAL MESSAGE
 |0F JUDGE GOULD In Report of Levying Court, Tells of Good Roads Work and What Can Be Done RECOGNIZE I, D ATION $ Suggests Fewer Road Improvement Districts to Improve system
 In County.
RECONTEE.Es ND ALTON $


 county, will make the following re- port to the Jefferson County Levyinc Court tomor .ow, when it meets in this city:
 To the Honorable Levying Court,
 Jefferson County, Arkansas,
 Gentlemen: herewith submit this, my fourth annual report as County Judge:
 PauperS.
 As in my previous report l again call attention 10 the alarming in crease of paupers. Many of them are people who came here from other counties, and not few from other states The cost of maintaining them has grown until the inroads made in to the Treasury is one of serious concern. l have adopted the plaa whereby it can be done of issuing an allowance of from $5.00 to $10.00 month for the individual, and let them manage to stay with some one and not go to the poor house, as l find this is cheaper to the county.
 The crowded condition of the building at the poor house made it necessary to build cottage for the superintendent to live in. This has relieved things very much, and en- ables better care and more room for the inmates
 Jail.
 The jails needs enlargng very badly in order that human treatment may be given the insane, which are of necessity confined therein, owing sane Asylum. As it is, the insane .nma1e are confined in the cells adjoining the sane prisoners and the noise made by a violently insane prisoner is at times-simply awful
 Circuit Court.
 The expenses of your circuit court are being held down by your able circuit judge to a minimum cost, and ss.s s there are no extensive murder trials on the docket there is no req son why the cost should not continue Ut the normal rate.
 Justice of the Peace Court.
 There has been great change in the trials of the justice of the peace courts in this county, and with very few exceptions the justices of the peace are endeavoring to hold their courts with as little cost as possible to the people.
 Roads and Bridges.
 An awakening public sentiment all over the land makes this one of the most important problems of the county judges office. This county has done very much in the line of road building and improvement in the past year, We have graded the road from Pine Bluff to Noble Lake. from the Taylor place to Ladd. and from Ladd to the Curry place; from Pine Bluff to Sulphur Springs; from Watson Chapel to the Broadway place, and are now grading from the Bell place to Sherrill. all with the county teams. This does not include the work done by the various overseers ill their respective districts, where some most excellent work has been done.
 The item of bridge building and re- hSS a as many streams to bridge as in this runs up into the thousands if dol- lars. We have built two new steel bridges since your last meeting. mak- ! ing eight steel bridges now in tho county, five of which have been built in the last four years. Have bull. 1 eight new wooden bridges ransing in length from S20 feet 10 1S0 feet, repaired fourteen first class hridses almost anew. besides moro or lass repairs on twenty second class bridges. adopted the plan of cut ling short the bridge wherever same. could he done and making dirt fills which are permanent, iu one instance saving over loo feet and in every in- stance from two to five bents.
 The bridges are generally ill first class condition and the cost to main- tain will not be near so large for the next year.
 There has been organized another macadam road to be built from Pine Bluff to Sulphur Springs, and from Watson's Chapel to the Miner place. A conservative estimate of the in- creased values from the macadam road now built will exceed $500 .00o