Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-08-08
NO OPPOSITION TO PERMANENT ROAD Commissioners and Proper ty Owner on Highway
 Agree PLANS SATISFACTORY Road Will Be Built at Low Acreage Meeting is
 Held.
PLANS SATISFACTORY

The property owners in Road lm- provement District No. 4, known as the Pine Bluff to Little Rock road, the Saline county line at cost of $50. 0O0 and which is to be a perman- ent roadbed. the contract having been let to Shelby and Bateman, Little Rock contractors, have about all de- cided not to resist the creation of the district, the levying of assessments and the work planned
 This decision was definately an- nounced yesterday afternoon at 8 largely attended meeting of the dis trict cosnissioners and property owners. held in the office of County Judge c. M. Philpott, chairman of the Board. J. II. Pilkington, IA E. Cheek and others who were opposing the permanent road contract on the ground that it was an expenditure too great commensurate with the values in the district, announced that after the matter had been thoroughly ex- plained to them in open meeting and after they had given the contract and it's minor details much consideration, they had come to the conclusion that the permanent road would be the least expensive in the long run and would be the most serviceable. Mir. Pilkington said that he was willing to change his opinion of the matter. after being convinced that the district and it's property owners were not imposed on. He said he favored good roads and was not in- clined to oppose any improvement where the preliminary arrangements were satisfactory. His statement was liberally applauded.
 The commissioners and the proper ty owners will meet again on Thurs day, August IA, when it is planned to amicably adjust all matters, approve the sale of the bonds if they have been disposed of by that time and complete all work preparatory to be- ginning actual construction work on the highway.
 Major H. A. Mccoy, one of the board of assessors, submitted an estimate of the assessments that will have to be paid during the life of the improve ment district. His original estimate was for an assessment on all the property in the district, which Is di- vided into ten zones, of $20,0OO year for fifteen years. This assessment ranged from B cents to 12 cents, the first zone, one half mile off the road, paying B cents per acre and the tenth zone. the furtherest away. pay ing twelve cents. As only $150,OOO will be needed to build the entire twenty-two miles of the proposed highway of concrete, with Dollarway cap, the time limit of fifteen years would total an assessment of $500, 900 which would be $150,00O in excess of what was really needed to complete the job. The assessment estimate was then reduced to $1O,0OO year for fifteen years, which would secure for the district the exact amount needed and the property. owners will complete their payments in the time limit of fifteen years. The $10.00O year esti-
 mate will also reduce the assess-
 ments in all of the ten zones, the es-
 innate being 16 1-2 cents an acre for
 the first zone and 6 cents an acre for
 the tenth zone. the acreage assess
 ments ranging in all the inland zones
 from 16 1-2 cents an acre to cents. The propeft owners along the pro fposed road are enthusiastic over
 their permanent road project and
 hope that it can be built without much delay.
 Henry Mccoy Blanchard, of Chatta-