Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-06-13
RESOLUTIONS COMMEND WORK
ON ROADS AND BRIDGES.
WANT POLICY CONTINUED
Request Made That Experimental
Highway Of Hard Surface
Pavement be Laid.

Good roads and the Fourth of July
celebration were the matters of
prime importance discussed at the
regular meeting of the Commercial
club Monday evening, the former be-
ing introduced with the report of
the committee recently appointed to
draft resolutions to the county
court. This committee, composed Of
Messrs ]. G. Riggs, c. l.. Hobart
and Joseph Moss, made the follow
ing report embodying the resolution
which was presented to the court at
its recent session:
I'VE, your committee appointed to
draft resolutions commencing the
county court for the road work car
red on during the past year and
voicing the sentiment of the club
that such work should continue,
hereby report as follows:
"Be 1t resolved, that the county
court of Josephine county be COM
mended for its untiring labor and
painstaking services to the commun-
ity and public in general in the con-
struction of good roads which has
been so largely carried on through
out the county.
That this club, being unanimous
ly in favor of good roads, and be-
lieving that the progress of the agri-
cultural and commercial interests of
the county would be greatly retarded
without good highways, urges a con-
tinuance of the work. Be it further
Resolved, that the following
suggestions be respectfully offered to
the county court:
First That the work of build
ing good roads be continued through
out the county until the main and
lateral highways shall reach the re-
motest parts of the county.
Second: That material of a more
permanent nature, such as hard sur
face pavement of some approved de-
scription, be used as an experiment
in the construction of one of the
more important highways of the
county, preferably the main trunk
line through the county, and that
said work should be completed dur
ing the present year.
There is no surer or more i'm
mediate way of receiving benefits to
the county than by spending our
taxes for good roads. Highway
building is one of the fundamental
and primary uses of a county organ
ization. Some of the greatest bene-
fits the general public derives from
taxation are what it gets from good
roads These benefits may be sum-
med up as follows:
First The number of days in
the year when team can use the
road will be increased.
Second Crops yielding a heav-
ier tonnage and larger profit per
acre can be grown.
Third: Lighter loads can be
hauled at a greater speed.
Fourth: Any raise in the mar
ket can be taken advantage of.
Fifth: More markets can be
reached by each farmer.
Sixth: Rural mails and parcels
post will be more rapidly extended
because of lessened expense.
I'VE believe that practically every
citizen of Josephine county feels az
did Colonel Potter when he said:
would rather ride one mile on
good road while | am alive than
thousand miles after I am dead.
Boost for the Fourth.
Chairman South of the genera
committee of arrangements for th'
Fourth of July celebration reported
progress and the various other com
mitteemen present discussed thei
plans and their needs. 4 secon'
finance committee to solicit fund
from the residents Of the city othe
than the business houses who had al