The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-04-25
NORTH CAROLINA LEADER
IN GOOD ROADS WORK

Board Of Trustees Organize Under
Act OF Legislature O Great cen
trail Highway, and PLAN for a Cam
paign Through Nineteen Counties,
Which Will Begin in Morchcad
City on the Eighth OF May. 20 Pre-
sent the Great Value Of a Public
Highway That Will Attract Travel
and Make for Progress in North
Carolina.
The greatest movement ever start
ed in the United States for a contnu.
Gus good road across a State has
started in North Carolina. 1t is for
q Public Central Highway Of $50
miles across the State, from
Harbor on the coast, to the Tennessee
Inc in the mountainous West. Ihe
Trustees appointed by the recent Cen
eral Assembly to have general charge
of the designating and the construct
ing of the Central Highway met in
Raleigh yesterday, organized. and
made plans to push the campaign for
the making of the great stretch OF
road. The meeting, with men in ii
from the mountains ~ tiiC Schs WOO
bubbling over with enthusiasm and
earnestness.
The undertake ng is an ambitious
one, n it means constant effort on
the part Of the nineteen Trustees, n
for each county through which the
highway would pass, but the men
named for these responsible posi-
lions are determined h a the plan
shall be carried to success. The work
they have undertaken is q patriotic
work, with no compensation attach
ed. the members of the Board even
paying their own expenses. unless
County Boards Of Commissioners
may decide to pay these. But the
men who came to Raleigh yesterday
did not halt at this. and for the bet
terment Of the State, met their e1-
penses out Of their own pockets.
The two important steps taken yes
terday were the election of officers
and the setting of dates for visits to
six counties through which the high
way will pass. The officers elected
were:
II. s. Warner. Of Lexington. editor
of food Roads, chairman.
Edward E. Britton, OF Raleigh, Sec
retary.
George c. Royal. Of Goldsboro,
treasurer.
Central Committee-William Dunn,
of New Bern; DR.. J. Nj. Tenpleton. Of
1aIS, II. IL. tidTh, OIL ctdteSFlllc1 w.
T. Morgan. Of Marion; ThomaS J.
Murray, of Marshall; J. A. Wellons. Of
Smithfield, secretary; H. B. Warner, OF
Lexington. chairman ex otficio.
First Tour in Campaign.
The initial tour of the Central Com
Board of Trustees, and q represen-
tative. Of the Highway Division Of the
North Carolina Geological ana Econ
oTnic Survey, will be made in auto
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IN the route. there will be a Good
Roads Day meeting, at which routes
VII be d scussed and plans made for
the construction Of the Central High
way. The dates for these meetings,
each to be held at one o'clock IN the
afternoon, are:
Morehead City. May S.
New Bern. May 9.
Kinston. May 10.
Goldsboro, May II.
Srnithfield. May Il.
Raleigh. May Is.
These will be the points for the
first week of the tour, and the next
tour will be from Western North
Carolina, back to the central portion
of North Carolina. The second tour
VII begin the first week in June, in
Madison county, and will be continued
through thirteen counties till Dur
ham is reached.
The Interest in the Meeting.
The interest in the meeting and the
enthusiasm in the cause of good roads
was shown at the organization meet
ing of the Board of Trustees. held
here yesterday. OF the nineteen mem
bers, thirteen We're present in per-
SON., two by proxy, and a telegram
came from one. this leaving but three
counties not represented of the nine
teen. That was q goodly attendance.
and it shows that North Carol ma is
III the race for good roads. The work
before the Board Of Trustees was The