The Cairo bulletin., 1912-01-22
NACADAN ROADS
WILL BE BUILT
IN THE SPRING
rsfs -
Commissioners Decide to Construct
One and 0ne-half Miles Of New
Driveways
TO ASK FOR STATE AID
Highway Engineer Requested tc
Furnish Materials and Man TO
Oversee Work

One and one-half miles OF ma
cadam roads and one mile of ma
cadam reconstruction work will be
done by the commissioners of Road
District No. T, this spring. This
was decided at an informal meeting
of commissioners, Julius Serbian
William II. Wood and William f
Kessler, yesterday afternoon.
The meeting was for the purpose
of talking over the proposition to ust
macadam on the roads In Alexander
County. The commissioners have
decided TO start on the Beech Ridge
and Willard road. The new worn
win start at the end of the grave
construction and will run west to.
ward Willard.
1t has been the custom of the com.
missioners to build a mile of new
road every year Heretofore the
work has been done with gravel.
Community Thickly Settled.
The work always has been done
in the direction that would accom-
modate the>greatest number The
extension selected, for this year, Is
through one of the most thickly set.
tied and important farming COM
munity in the county, and is one
of the most important trunk raods
in the district.
They will also gravel the road
running west from the half way
house to the Sears-Roebuck plant. q
distance of about half mile. This
part Of the work was laid out last
year and would have been lbuilt
then. but the funds were tied up by
the circuit court injunction, which
has been set aside by the appellate
court
State to Help.
This year instead of using the
hill or neighborhood gravel, as has
been done on all the other roads
crushed stone will be used The
stone is to be furnished and the
work to be done under the super.
vision of the State Highway com
missioners.
This action Of the board was
strongly recommended by the Cairo
Automobile Club the Cairo Com
mercial Club, the Cairo Board OF
Trade and the Cairo Retail Mer-
chants Association.
The clerk of the board was in.
structed to file, at once, with the
State Highway Commissioners ar
application for this experimental
road work.
Considered Stone.
The commissioners have frequent.
ly considered the proposition of ex.
perimentinE with the crushed stone
in the past years, but the freight
rate of nearly one dollar per made
the cost prohibitory.
BY the use of the Iron Mountain
railroad, however, the rate has been
reduced to AZ cents per ton.
The matter Of resurfacing one
mile of the Mouwi City road from
the city limits to the Country club
by the us of crushed stone and
bituminous binder was also consid-
cred at length and it was decided to
make application for this work, also
provided the State Highway Com
mlssloners would agree to furnish
the binder, which Mr.. Agg said had
been done in several instances in
the past. y
Binder Too Costly
lnasmuch as the binder alone
would cost $1,372.S0 for the mile OF
Work the board could not see theii
way clear, at this time, to assume
thls expense. in addition to many
othef important improvements ir
otner parts of the district that have
10 De made this year.
Tney appointed Messrs. Wood ant
kessi Ter TO personally represent then
before the state commission m,
board has also arasifsssas leach of tn.
clubs aud' comm ere(t (ta5 bodies u az
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