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THE DUPONT ROADS.
General T. c. DUPONT Discusses
His Plans For The Delaware
State Road.


Coleman du Pont more than two
hundred citizens and farmers in and
around Delmar assembled to hear
Mr.. du Pont and his engineer, Ed
gar c. Markham, discuss the plans
of the proposed State Boulevard.
General du Pont said that there
were two surveys being made from
the terminus of the road at Delma1
and Houston was chosen as an OBJ
jective point, but need not neces-
sarily be so.
The two routes now mapped out
are one on the east side of the
county, about one mile from
Georgetown, and the other about
three and one-half miles from Sea-
ford, crossing Concord Lake. He
said he was building the road tc
give the greatest benefit to all the
people and after all the surveys are
made a commission, comprising the
Governor, Lieutenant Governor and
Secretary of State, will decide which
part of the county it shall be built
General du Pont said: That ii
will be built is an assured fact, land
of course, if l find that by going
on either side of the county will
make a difference of several hun
dred thousand dollars the road will
be built where it costs the least.
1 would prefer it to be built on
the West side near Seaford, as it
would give me easy access to my
home, "'The Moors," near Cam
bridge, Md, which would be only
three miles from the Maryland State
Road.
The road will be thirty feet wide
the entire length of the State, and
l will gladly give a franchise for a
trolley line to be built in the mid
die of same.
The material used for construc-
ton in Sussex county was freely dis
cussed and Mr. du Pont has been
making many experiments with oys-
ter shells and gravel which he said
would make an excellent road, and
undoubtedly this material will be
used, as it will be much cheaper
than rock, and the shells can be OBJ
tanned at Seaford and other near
by towns on the river.
1t was proposed to Mr.. du Pont
that he make a survey at the head
of the Nanticoke river that would
cross the west point of the mea-
dow farm, one and one-half miles
from Seaford, and that whatever eX-
pense would incur in building the
bridge the citizens would bear it.
Quite a number of citizens from
Salisbury went to Delmar to take
the matter up with the Delmar peo-
pie to do anything in their power
to get the road built to Delmar, land
a committee of Salisbury citizens,
of President VIM. NJ. Coop
ar, Hon. w. p. Jackson and Mr.. w.
B. Miller was appointed to aid the
people of Delmar in the work of get |
ing the right of way to Delmar.
Dur people are interested in the
subject because it would open up
| straight highway from here to
Philadelphia, and during the talk
General du Pont said he would
make the same offer to the people
If Maryland and Virginia to con-
inue this highway to Cape Charles
N the same terms that the State OF
Delaware had given him for his
franchise. He wanted to know what
he people of Wicomico would do
owards building connecting road
rom Salisbury to Delmar and he
vas assured if he would build his
DAD to Delmar that our people
rould meet him with Il good road
D Delmar from Salisbury even if it
ad to be built by private su5scrip-
ons.-Wicomico News.