Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-08-03
JEFFERSON OlITSTEPS PULASKI

the matter of good road building County Judge Joe Asher is now at tn, three-quarter pole in the Good Roads
 Handicap, with Judge Philpot so fa in the lead that the pioneer goot roads official of the capital city cal hardly telephone to him. And Judg, Asher is now more thoroughly deter mined than ever to capture the honors and will speed 'em up from now on.
 In the recent letting of the two biz contracts, which include the buildin, of concrete highway, with Dollar
 way cap. from Pine Bluff to the Sa
 line county line-in the direction ol the capital city--a distance of twenty two miles, and macadam road to 1 Tamo, near the Lincoln county line for a distance of twenty ml:cs. Jef- | ferson county has been brought into prominence throughout the south as | the tanner good roads county of Ar- | kansas.
 l d manent roads, too. for past pxperi- ences with macadam rud,is ill this county have proven valuable and have firmly convinced the good road ad- vocates that to build then IS oniy d waste of money and does, hoc give the taxpayers their moneys worth.
 The rivl..y betwe.l Judge 'ph;lpnt and Judge As!.c, who recently visi..d this county o re: moro good loads among the property owners of h,;n counties and. if anything. is having good effect. Pine Bluff already has twenty-five miles of macadam high ways, leading towards Star City and Camden. and branch highway to Sulphur Springs. With the additiona. fortytwo miles that is yet to be con- structed, this county will have more than fifty miles of highways-with modern pavements. The macadam roads that are already in use are 1 wearing some and it is because of the great amount of money that is needed annually for the upkeep of them that Judge Philpot has been converted and | is now d strong believer in nothing but permanent highways.
 1 Pulaski county has always held the honors for good roads work. It has never until recently taken it's hat off to any other county in the state, but it remained for Judge Philrot in je;- ferson county to show 'em up." At the last session of the Arkansas leg islature special act was passed, through the efforts of Judge Asher and other highway enthusiasts, appropriat- ing $300,000 of Pulaski county's road money to four adjoining counties to aid them in completing highways that would connect with good permanent roads that have been and are being built by Judge Asher in Pulaski.
 On yesterday notice was served on Judge Philpot, the chairman of Road l Improvement District No. f. known as the Pine Bluff to Little Rock high way, by few property owners along | the proposed road. to the effect that they would ask for an injunction to prevent the construction of the Pine Bluff to Little Rock highway. They l object, it is said. to permanent road material. which is naturally more costly than macadm. These property owners are making a sad mistake in trying to prevent the building of this needed highway-one that will be last ing and be of great benefit to them | It will enhance the value of their realty holdings and give them service 1 the value of which cannot be esti- mated. Judge Philpot. at meeting of | the commissioners and the property owners yesterday afternoon. informed them that he would assist the district | literally with county funds and that after certain sum is appropriated by the county for the work, the perman-
 ent road would not cost them any
 more than if the property owners had
 built macadam road-for the county
 will pay practically the difference be-
 tween the two bids-believing that it
 would be economy for the county to do so Judge Philpot figures that the county would have to expend that
 amount anyway. in maintaining a macadaM road, the life Qf WiaiGh is on by twoor N lsl s ilk:s ks saI < 'ss{ es{a } essary to expend much money in its
 upkeep.