Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-01-19
GOOD ROAD ITEM
(From southern Good Roads.l

(From Southern Good Roads.)
The town OF Apex, N. c., has voted
$4,000 for street Improvement and a
market house.
Jackson county, Tennessee, has vot-
ed bond issue Of $4,000 for good
roads.
Lee county, North CaroIinae. win
vote January 16 on a good roads bond
issue.
Bonham, Tex, has awarded a con-
tract for the construction of 80 blocks
Of concrete sidewalk.
Beat No. 2, of Rankin county, Mis-
sissippi, has awarded a contract at
$4,000 to construct and improve IS
miles of road.
Tallapoosa county, Alabama, is
spending 5000 to $4,000 in building
nine miles of road.
Tulsa, Okla, recently awarded a
contract at $is5,5S6.46 for paving s.
blocks with rock asphalt
The city of Binghampton. Tenn,
has engaged an engineer to have SUI
pervfsion OF her street paving.
Crowley, La, will spend about &c.,
600 building street crossings.
FL PasO, Tex, Is paving Arizona
avenue at q cost Of $46,0S1.SS, OF which
the city pays about $500. the Ell Paso
Electric Railway company, about
$4,000 and property owners the rest.
Joplin, Mo, is contemplating spend
Ing about $4,000 ON liquid asphalt
paving
Magnolia, Miss, Is constructing TO-
600 square yards OF concrete side
walks.
Mobile. Ala, is preparing to invest
about $4,000 in paving.
Tallahassee, Fla, Is spending $780,
900 for vitrified brick pavement.
A movement is on foot to build q
great highway from Mexico to Brit
ish Columbia. to be known as the
Lee and Phillips counties, Arkansas,
are cooperating in building an inter-
county highway; later, 1t is said. the
road will be extended through St
Francis county. All the construction
work Is being done by convict labor.
Petitions are being circulated in
Robertson county, Tex, asking for an
election on the question of issuing
good roads bonds to the amount of
$4,000
Figuring on the acreage occupied
by them the roads of Illinois are
worth S67,000,000; the good roads
boosters of that state are asking their
ellow-citizens how they are manag-
Ing this business, which has an In
vested capital of such staggering pro-
portions. II the value of the roads
Of the southern states should be fig
uredl but on the same basis 1t might
help to wake up the citizens to the
necessity Of taking care Of their
property.
An effort is being made in Caddo
parish, Louisiana, to call a special
election for January q to vote on
the question of levying a special 5
mill tax for five years for good
roads. This means that Caddo would
spend $4,000 year for five years on
her highways.
St Louis is going after the next
meeting of the American Association
for Highway Improvement with which
will be combined the meetings OF the
American Automobile association, the
American Road Builders and the Ma
tional Association of Road Machinery
and Material Manufacturers.
The University of Kansas has in
stituted a correspondence course in
road building for the benefit OF the
road overseers Of the state.
The Tarrant county, Texas, voters,
at an election held December II, en-
dorsed the issuance Of $1,000,000 road
and bridge bonds.
A road bond election is ordered for
Bryan county, Texas, calling for the
issuance of 100000, the election to
be held on February s.
The bond issue for 100000 for good
roads in the Sherman precinct, Gray
son, Texas, carried by a substantial
majority.
An active campaign will be in
augurated at once in behalf of the
issuance of 100000 bonds for the
building and maintenance of good
roads throughout Orange county.
Texas.
The citizens Of Midland, Tex.
have arranged to build sample
stretches of highway in Andrews
and Gaines counties for the purpose
Of encouraging the construction or
good roads in that portion of the
state.
The Nebraska Automobile and
Good Roads association viii hold its
next session at Lincoln.
A good roads primer prepared un-
der the direction OF the federal gov
eminent has been introduced in sew.
en- states as a part OF the regular
studies and is likely to be adopted
IN othrs
Lynohburg. Va, win build
bridge from Fredonia street to the
island recreation grounds OF the Y.
M. O. A.