Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-25
FAV0Rs BONDS FOR
GOOD ROADS
Thinks They Will Develop Bryan and
the Whole County as Nothing
Else Will-Has Faith in
Committee.

10 the EullOT OF l. lie bryan Eagle.
AS to the good roads movement in
Brazos county | see from the paper
that citizens have organized for bust
ness in manner, think, that should
meet the hearty support of every citi-
zen in the district named. OF course,
the good roads question is by far the
most important question that is ever
up before the people of any country.
and as / see it there are only two i'm
portant things to be considered: First
how to get the money, for we all know
! it takes lots and lots of money to
build the right kind of good roads;
, terials to be used. ETC. One is about
as important as the other. | know of
no better way to raise the money than
the plan just adopted by the CONNER
cial Club and citizens committee, and
, that is to issue bonds for enough
money to do the work. Now, of course,
bonds call for taxation, and taxation
is the only fair way to raise money
for any public worn. Contribution by
taxation reaches everybody alike.
Even "Old Tightwad" can't escape it.
So ! say by all means let us have the
bond issue. | candidly believe that it
would pay every real estate owner in
our county to contribute one-third of
all they possess for the building of
the right sort of good roads. | believe
that the two-thirds that they would
have left would be worth more to
them in dollars and cents and ten
thousand times more in pleasure and
satisfaction than all they possess will
ever be worth as long as they have to
drive their wagons and buggies up and
down the roads of Brazos county hub
deep either in the sand or in the mud
to say nothing of the good horses and
mules that are annually pulled to
death. do hope that the bond issue
will have no opposition. Then, of
course, there should be great care and
good judgment used as to the kind of
roads to be built. To be frank, am
a little skeptical on the sand and clay
proposition. for it has been my OBJ
servation that sand will blow away,
and clay and water mixed will certain
ly make mud. Yet this is only no
ton" of mine. ! really don't know
ANYTHING about it and will offer no
objection to the plan if those who have
had experience say it will work, al
though think it would be the part Of
wisdom to put gravel or crushed rock
wherever these materials could be
had. There are several roads that are
convenient to the railroad tracks, es-
pecially the road to A. & M. college,
and had you ever thought about get
ting the railroads to do some free
hauling for us. All the progressive
railroads in the state are spending
each year hundreds of thousands of
dollars bringing homeseekers into the
state, many of them free and many of
them at very low rates. The object
of which is to sell these people land
thereby help to develop the country,
which, of course. will make more traf-
fic for the railroads. Now, if there
ever was any one thing above and be-
yond everything else that will develop
a country and make it bloom as the
proverbial rose, it is good roads, and
it does seem to me that the railroads
could see, and / believe that they will
see when it is presented to them. that
their assistance in helping to build
good roads in any part of the country
would pay them thousandfold more
than any other kind of free service
that they can render I honestly be-
lieve if this proposition were rightly
and honestly presented to the rail !
roads that they would not only con-
slider it favorably, but | believe they |
would render us great deal of as