The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-01-21
Taking Advantage of the Good Roads
Amendment.

the two first parishes to make
known their intention to take adj
vantage of the good roads amend
ment, recently adopted by the
yeople. Botq acted during the
past week, as readers of our
news columns will have observed,
and as the first dollar of the tax
has not yet found its way into
the treasury, their course may
be taken as an indication that
many of the parishes will avail
themselves of the opportunity to
have the State double whatever
they tax themselves for road pur-
poses.
In the case of Caddo a commit
tee was appointed to confer with
the State officials with a view to
seeking $4,000, which would
mean 500, 900 to be devoted to
the construction of permanent
highways in that parish.
Plaquemines has gone even
further. Her jury has directed
the creation of a new rood dis
trict and taken the preliminary
steps for an election of property
holders to levy a tax, based on
which there will be a bond issue
of $40, 600. The State will be
asked to match whatever the par
ish raises and the whole will be
devoted to the construction of a
raad running from Pointe-a-la
Hache and connecting with the
st. Bernard shell-road, resulting
in the opening up of a magnifi-
cent highway between New Or
leans and the Plaquemines parish
seat and giving marked impet-
us to the development of the fer
tile lands lying for miles below
the city.
At the recent meeting of the
State Board of Liquidation the
Governor was authorized to bor-
row $25, from the fiscal
agents in order to inaugurate the
new department, which is to be
in charge of a highway engineer
soon to be selected by the execu-
tive. The quarter mill tax which
the amendments levies becomes
Immediately assessable and as it
will yield in the neighborhood of
$140, 600 a year and is to be sup
plemented by local taxation it
will be seen that in a short time
Louisiana will be spending ap-
proximately a quarter of a mil
lion a year on State highways,
aside from what local communi-
ties contribute to the improve
ment of their local roads. IN. O..
Daily States, Jany. Is.
The States is way off about
Plaquemines and Caddo being
the first two parishes to make
known their intention to take ad-
vantage of the goods amendment.
Grant parish voted a 5 mill tax
for good roads in May, 1910, and
one of the strongest arguments
the advocates used in carrying the
tax was the prospect of getting
in on that good roads amendment,
which we had every reason to be-
lieve would be adopted by the
people in November. Our faith
proved to be well founded, and
so Grant parish carried her tax
and got in line to share in that
amendment six months before
the amendment was adopted.
And, what is better still, Grant
parish has the assurance of Gov.
Sanders and the State Board of
Engineers that she shall have
$25, 900 ($4O, 900 if possible) out
of that fund for this current
year 1911, and the Board at this
minute has a party of survey
ors at work surveying our roads,
on which work will in all proba-
bility be in active progress with
in the next sixty days.
According to our understand.
ing there are at this time five
other parishes besides Grant that
stand ready to share in the State
fund for good roads, and Plaque.
mines and Caddo lack a good deal
of being first in the list.
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