Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-02-17
TWO COUNTIES
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STUDY ROADS
Commissioners From COWGta
and Tiff Counties
Spent Yesterday Going Over Improved
Highways Of Sumter and Securing
Information as to Methods Used in
Their Construction.

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committees of county commissioner
and prominent citizens came yesterda,
to travel over the far-famed gooj
roads of Sumter county and see 70.
themselves whether the reports as Z
them were we'll based.
From Coweta county, in the north
eastern part Of the state came Coun
ty Commissioners H. C. Glover c. f
Parks and B. L. Redwine.
From Tiff county in the south-mid.
die section of the state, came Commits
sioners John Baker and l. w. Bower
and Messrs. H. H. Tiff and c. E
Schultz.
The CoWeta committee came by raj
but the delegation from Tiff Travelled
in an auto and had a good opportun-
ity to contrast the varying qualities OF
the roads of this section. After leav-
ing Triton they came to no roads m
their travels that equalled those OF
Sumter county.
Both committees saw considerable
of the county roads before they met
Chairman Frank Sheffield, of the Sum
ter commissioners, in the afternoon
Chairman Sheffield naturally was de-
lighted to meet the official represent
atiYes of two sister counties and to
impart to them all the information pos
sible about the methods in use here
in constructing improved highways.
County Superintendent Christian was
on hand and from the two officials the
visitors derived much information Of
value to them.
I'VE are working about sixty con-
victs in Coweta county" said Chair
man Glover, of that delegation, to a
Times-Recorder representative, "and
We are making excellent progress. We
have about one hundred miles of good
roads now, of uniform width, we'll
graded and well-built. w ehave no
such soil materials to work with as
you have here in Sumter, though, and
our expenses are much greater. Our
clay is of the sticky, soft variety, our
grades are steep, and we meet with
obstacles and difficulties that Sumter
seems fortunately to have been SPAR
ed.
1--WE have read a good deal in the
papers about Sumter's fine roads" he
continued, land have heard likewise
from those who have Travelled over
them. So we decided to come down
and see for ourselves and get any IN
formation we could that might prove
of service to us in our work along
that line. We have not been disap-
pointed. Your roads are simply SUI
perb and we can appreciate that land
values must have been greatly en-
HANGED and the farm life of the coun-
ty immeasurably improved by the
building of such highways"
AS in Sumter, CoWeta county has
not issued any road bonds, but hopes
to do so in the near future. Bonds
should be issued, Chairman Glover
said, to engage in systematic work
that will speedily give all parts of
the county access to the markets and
shipping points of the county. He ex-
pressed the belief that farmers, large
and small, were being brought to an
appreciation of the great vlue of inn
proved roads and that their opposition
to bond issues for such work was
dying out
The Tiff committee We're equally as
we'll pleased with what they saw OF
Sumter county. AS in the case of the
Coweta committee, the visitors were
all staunch men of affairs in their
county, men of progressive ideas who
expect wonderful development in this
section in the coming years and look
upon improved roads as one of the
greatest factors in bringing it about.
Such roads as you have here" said
the chairman of the Tiff committee
cannot fail to draw settlers, to fill
up the county with desirable people
and develop it in every way beyond
former expectations. 1t is the very
system Of good roads that South Geor-
gia is now building that will do most
to push this section ahead in the next
decade and increase it's white popula-
ton, its agricultural wealth, and its
pleasures as a home section. We are
Just on the verge, we believe, of de-
velopment such as no other section
has ever seen and we favor a policy
of good roads, such as Sumter has
as the finest medium to bring it about
The Coweta commissioners remained
over at the Windsor hotel last night
and today will continue their exploc-
ations before starting again for home
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