El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-04-10
VALLEY
AFTER 4 ROAD
Finlay People Want Ell Paso
County to Comply
With the Law.

/ Finlay people want the county road
/ extended 10 the CulbersOn county line.
/ They want IL so much that they have
/ sent NJ W. Lowry to FL Paso to work
/ for the new road. It Is the desire OF
/ the Finlay people to have the county
/ road extended from Fabens to the coun-
I ~ line so that the people living in the
/ eastern part Of the county may have
| a road to haul produce on.
The state law provides that a good
road must be built from one county
This has not been done by FL Paso
| county to CulbersOn county.
Il have noticed with interest the dis
| cusslon of the transcontinental high
way, and 1 have hoped that sufficient
inducement might be offered to have
the road pass entirely through Texas
and entirely through FL PasO county
This appears impracticable under nres-
class road extending through the couu-
y II might easily be done to the LAST
ing benefit Of FL Paso county.
Tt is fact that FL Paso county.
while II has a few miles OF good roads
Is away behind many other Texas coun-
ties in the matter Of roads It is like
wise ract that there is a stretch OF
territory IN FL PasO county covering
more than 1900 square miles with MOI
county road in II. not because there
are no people living in this vast
there is no demand for a road travers-
Ing this territory. 1 refer 20 the stretch
Of country extending the width OF the
county and lying eastward from Polv0
to the Culberson county line, and in
which are several small towns. These
towns have absolutely no county road
connecting them with the city Of FL
PasO.
Il think FL Paso stores are 1osin,
considerable trade by not having a
nrst-class road leading east from the
city, for many settlers and ranchers
would drive into the city for their sun
IL
account Of the lack Of roads MANY
OF them would own automobiles and
come TO the city often II they only had
good roads.
L live at Finlay. through which nlace
travellers from the east must 20 to
reach FL PasO, and unnberless tines
nave been asked by Automobiles and
oIher travellers the best road to FL
Paso. I Invariably reply: You NAV
reach there by going either north or
south OF the railroad. but whichever
Ioad YOU tahe' you viii wish you had
taken the other. One may evidently
well posted said. DO YOU know MAJ
the law requires your county commits
sioners TO lay out first-class road
from your county seat in the most d.
rect route In the direction of the ad-
joining county seatT to which I re-
Piled y es, I know Il. but evidently our
honorable county commissioners and
our county judge do not know ii, or
else they would obey the law Some
time after the above conversation. to-
getner with several OF nv nefEhbors
following, the direction OF the Texas
statutes laid down for such matters.
VIC made a petition to the county com
mlssloners for road to FL Paso. re-
specially calling their attention TO
the requirements OF the law. and 10
the fact that we had absoluteiv no
county road That was about eight
monlns ago and so far as we know
absolutely nothing has been done to-
ward giving US a county road.
requested
Blanca to III Paso would have been OF
great benefit to the city besides giving
Us our rights in the matter and would
not be very expensive 10 build, for
most OF the country over which the
cad would pass viii make a fine road
with very little work. There are short I
s i. or very bad sand yet most 81
these sandy stretches are near beds OF
clay OF rock which could be used to
build road at no great cost
We believe that an automobile road, !
not necessarily a macadsmized road I
should be built entirely across FL Paso
county 1t VIII be done some dav:
why not now2 Suppose we had that
road now and could offer il TO the peo-
pie VINO had the transcOntinental high (
ay In charge Would IL not 20 a long
way towards influencing them to lay I
out the highway through Texas? Then 4
tf we had done our duty. complied with /
the law and laid out the road toward 4
van Horn, probably the county COM
mlSSlOners or other counties would ]
nave extended the road through their Z
counties and vast good would have
been accomplished.
We have been told that the county 4
mad no money for such a road. but II I
0 Sly TOOK a Few minutes 20 get a bond {
issue started when some folks down
the valley wanted a road to act as
leVee a snort time ago. Why could
not the same commendable zeal be dis
prayed IN complying with the law and
giving US road through the county
eastward %