Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-07-30
WILL BUILD ROAD
TO Wild CAT
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING HELD
BY YOUNG BUSINESS MEN
AND FARMERS AT THE
COURT HOUSE YES.
TERDAY.
TO name COMMITTEE
Judge PhilpOt and Other Interested
Parties Formulate Plans for
Road Building Campaign.

The meeting called by County Judge
&c. M. Philpot yesterday morning was
we'll attended by citizens and business
men of Pine Bluff who displayed a
lice interest in the subject of good
roads throughout the county and dis
cussed from every standpoint the
possible ways and means of con-
structing very much needed high
way from this city to Wild Cat.
Property owners along the line of
the road were not very we'll repre-
scented, because of their being pre-
vented from attending on account of
heavy rains which fell in that neigh
borhood during the morning.
The cause, however, was we'll look
! ed after ffofif heir nd--b C.
Board, of Hensley Island, and other
representations. These gentlemen
presented the views of the people
most interested and planters stated
that the planters were willing to
furnish from three hundred to four
hundred mules and all the labor
employed on their plantations. They
will supervise the work along their
property and in any section as di-
rected by the proper officials in
charge of the work. They are anxious
to improve their highway in order
to bring their crops to Pine Bluff and
trade here, and the large attendance
of Pine Bluff business men is ample
evidence of as much eagerness at this
end of the line. The farmers have
discussed all of the possible plans
that could be adopted and executed
by themselves and have resolved that
they cannot accomplish the desired
results alone but believe that with a
little assistance from Pine Bluff
wonderful improvement can be
wrought without large outlay on
the part of anyone interested, which
means Pine Bluff and all of the
planters on the road.
Many speeches were made and nu-
merous suggestions advanced as to
means of securing a permanent road
of macadam by the formation of i'm
provement districts and other appli-
cations of county funds. Judge Phil
pot explained points of law regulat-
ing the use of county funds for road
purposes so that on the whole the
meeting was the most important that
has ever been held in the interest of
good roads. That something import
ant will surely develop as the result
of the gathering is certainty and
the repetition of the affair is ear
nestly hoped for
Those who addressed the meeting
We're P. P Byrd, g. A. Board, H. A.
Mccoy, A. w. Mum, Senator Toney,
w. ]. Parles and J. E. Boyce Mr.
Byrd explained the operations of
+, Road District No. l, and told how
the Improvement association they had
formed had issued bonds for road
purposes which were being redeemed
out of the road tax fund without fur
Their call on TIE property holders for
the next eight years. He proposed
the same plan for the road to Wild
Cat but said that if it was desired al
this time to build a dirt road on the
plan suggested he was willing to al
low any right of way through his
lands IN the road and would further
give of his time and money in any
way necessary to make success of
the movement
Mr. Num- was of the o inion that
: dirt read could not be built and
favored the expenditure of large
portion of the coanty road funds for
the purpose of constructing rock
road at once. though the people of the
county would likely handle the coun
ty judge harshly for neglecting the
ataer townships until they appreeia-
ted the value of permanent work in
one section at time and realized
that nothing would ever be accem-
n.ishei by spendins litis here aGd
a little there as has been aose in a
the years past. Enough money! has
beer aid in for read taxes iii yes
past TO have gsed surface to every
read end lane il the soHrsg If rsr-t
mapeot work had been dane n t1e
beginning. Mr.. Num- said. however,
that whatever plan was decided upens
IS the exnedient ore il this case he
felt assured that all the business
men in Pine Bluff would stand back
CT tie ssronosition to support it II
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