Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-03-30
10 Build Over 500 Miles of Good Roads
In Two DAYS,

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The good roads building scheme ever
cooked up is on in Tennessee The
Manufacturers Record tells the follow
i7g thrilling story of the project:
For years the States of the South
have suffered untold and multiplied
losses on account of the inadeouate
road facilities and the immense cost of
marketing the yields of their land The
early settlers felled the trees through
the primeval forests, and generation
have used the same crooked roads
climbing hills, fording streams and haul
ed ''half load" down to the present
time
Political parties have We'd with each
other as to making good-road promises
some of them were gems-onlv
to continue in the same ruts there fore
fathers left them, operating under the
'serving-out system" which was in
augurated in the Ehzabethan age and
handed down from generation to gen.
GRAFTON.
A new Richmond entered the field in
the person of a young, vigorous. active
business attorney, who was a nominee
OF minority party, but on account of
these sterling qualities, which often
times make men famous, he was elected
governor of the volunteer state. Even
before his Inauguration, and while max
ing a study of Tennessee's greatest
needs, he readily found that the things
which would benefit the most people and
yield to the state the greatest income
would be to improve her road system
he took up the suggestion of building a
road the length of the state. from
Memphis on the west to Bristol on the
east, distance of about $40 miles and
said if other states could accomnlisb
great things in the way of building a
road II one day, of course, Tennessee
could do the same.
The Memphis-to- Bristol Highway As
sociatlon was organized, prominent BUSH
ness men elected as officers, and the
work of organizing the various counties
alone the proposed road began. Up to
The present time a Memphis-to-Br Bristol
Highway Association has heen formed
In thirty-eight counties, and something
over Is, 900 men have signed up for two
days work on the road.
In addition, nearly $50. 900 has been
subscribed in these various counties for
the purpose of buying bridge and culvert
material, lumber, nails, signboards.
road machines and various other things
needed to carry this project to success
full compl' ton.
At the headquarters of this association
large office force is busy sending bull
letin blanks, writing personal letters.
supplying the various news papers with
reading dope" and carrying on a cam
palgn which would make some of our
political campaigns sit up and take
notice.
The various county organizations will
have charge of the work in their par-
ticular counties. An overseer has been
selected for each mile in every county.
some 1000 selected already These over
seers have selected an assistant for everv
300 yards. A blueprint has been made
of the route and by the morning of
august l4th these one-mile overseers will !
have all the necessary mate rial at con-
venient places ready for the start. The
necessary men to do the work will be
notified by personal letters to report at
certain place in that mile on the NOR
nlngs of August 14th and ISL to do a
certain kind of work.
The ladies of the neighborhood will
furnish dinner for the men who toll
and the small boys will find occupation
IN carrying water.
Could any organiza ion be more per-
feet, could project be more commend
able, could movement yield greater
returns to the state than the building
Of this great state road within two
days?
The same plan has been successfully
tried in Iowa where a road was built en-
'Irely across the State from the Miss
ssippi to the Missouri in day, also in I
Kansas where long stretches of the old
santa Fe Trail have been made into ;
,ood road by the united efforts of the
armers.