Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-02-23
Committee
MAY COME
TO SEE
Invitations are Sent on to
Jacksonville
Want to Show Them What This Section
Offers for the Proposed Highway
From Jacksonville to Atlanta. No
Effort Will Be Spared.

A committee from the Jacksonville
Board of Trade is to be invited by
the Americus Board of Trade to visit
Americus as the guests of the home
business body, with a view of showing
it what this section has to offer in
the shape of good roads and with a
view to getting the backing of jack
sonville in the movement to make the
proposed great national highway come
from Jacksonville to Atlanta via Amer
icus.
To that end it was decided at the
Getting of the Board of Trade on Tues
day night to extend an invitation tC
the Jacksonville Board of Trades COM
mittee on the proposed highway 10
come here, as the guests of Ameri-
Gus, and make an auto tour from
Americus to Andersonville and from
,Americus to Albany, in order to dem
onstrate the superiority of this sec
ton over any of the proposed routes
through Georgia.
1t is believed that Albany will
heartily cooperate with Americus N
this respect and that the Board 0i
Trade there will probably take steps
to show the committee from Jackson
vile what Dougherty county has to
offer as good connecting links in the
proposed highway.
This action was the result of reading
several letters at the Tuesday night
meeting relative to the movement 70
bring the highway this way One
from the chairman of the Jacksonville
committee was as follows:
The Board Of Trade, Americas, Ga.
Gentlemen: Your letter of Feb. Sd
has been referred to me by Secretary
Richardson, of the Jacksonville BoarC
of Trade, for reply, and in answer
thereto would like to ask what it Is
you would like to have this Jackson
ville-Macon-Atlanta Highway Commit
tee do in the premises.
This committee has already given
considerable time to the work and
have made a number of trips in its
interest, and stands ready to do still
more if good can be accomplished Dy
it.
We have been ecuoraged to Go the
wor ktbft we have by the intense in,
terest that has been shown in this
highway all along the line.
Up to the present time the commit
tee has been considering two routes
one out of Jacksonville via King
Ferry, Waycross, Fitzgerald, Able
! vile, Hawkinsville, Douglas, Perry
and the other via Lake City, Live Oak
Valdosta, Tifton and Cordele.
{, Along in December Madison county
{. Florida, which is west of both Of thu
, proposed routes, took up the question
Of selecting a route through theil
! county, going into Georgia at Quit
: man. instead of Valdosta, and tn
: route they wanted us to Investigate
: was from Quitman to Moultrie, Moul
trie to Americus, and from there Il
1 Macon. We made that part of th
Y trip through Madison county and int
y Georgia at Quitman.
i What trade organizations and town
D was it your idea to have represented 4
r he proposed meeting at Americus.
Y take it it would be those towns ant
counties only that would be interestec
in the route going that way. Of cours
those towns and counties located cas-
of you would be opposed to this. /
you will give me fuller information
with reference to these matters,
shall be glad to take it up with th'
committee, and advise you.
We would like to have you let II
! know what it is you would want thi
committee to do.
Everywhere we have gone we hay
heard of the magnificent roads in Sum
ter county; they have been referred t
numerous times at meetings of thi
committee, as being the most magni
, fcent roads in the state of Georgia.
The writer has very pleasant recol
lections OF about five delightful year
spent as a resident of your city AM
would feel a personal interest in tn
proposed highway looking to a con
nection between Americus and Jack
sonville.
Yours very truly,
J. J. LOGAN.
The movement for the Atlanta-Ma
Jacksonville highway is takini
deeper root right along and it i
merely a matter of tipe-and not
very long time, at that-before it vii
be an actual fact and automobiles
will be touring it.
The lanta-Jacksonville highway i
part of a great national highway move
ment. The proposed highway fror
Washington, d. c., to Atlanta woul