The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-09-05
Board of Supervisors

The Board of Supervisors of Grenada
County met at the court house Monday
morning, Sept. /. 1913, the same being
a regular meeting. Present: Supervis-
ors A Il McEtwrath, president; j II
James, W V Horton, Ira Rounsaville,
E l. Atkinson.
Road Commissioner Vance reported
for August as follows:
Beat THE roads in this beat have
been worked this month, except the
road from the pool house north to beat
line. and the road from Dubard to
Lamkins road and two other short
roads. The roads are in fairly good
condition, except the culverts and some
small bridges which need attention.
This is the case all over the county. If
the graders were to stop now and not
GO on the roads for one month, and all
the force put to work on culverts and
bridges, | doubt if they could get them
in condition in that time. When | say
culverts, l don't mean a little ditch
across the road that one or two planks
would cover, or tina. could be stopped
up with the Sunday Commercial Appeal;
l mean ~culverts sufficient in depth and
width to carry the water and keep the
roadbed drained; until this is done we
will not have any good winter roads.
There is a great deal of work to be
done in working roads that can not be
done with the graders. That seems to
have been lost sight of. | have called
attention to these things several times.
j. T. Mason has lone some good work
in pulling down some hills and putting
clay on sand in the road south of Gains
creek. Much more of this kind of
work could be done to great advan-
tage.
Beat 2-Mr. Clark's part from Mid
die road south: Mr.. Clark has done
some good work on some of his roads
in raising low places and filling IN
around bridges. He has some bad Gull
verts and a few narrow places. With
these exceptions, his roads are in good
condition, and Mr.. Clark says these
things will be fixed soon.
Mr.. Gillian's part including Middle
road and all north:
These roads. with the exception OF
some bad culverts and some filling IN
with slides, are in good condition. There
has been some fine work done on the
Middle road, in grading some hills.
This road, with the exceptions of one
or two hills. which will be fixed as soon
as it rains, is in good condition.
Beat 3-No work has been done IN
this beat this month. The roads are in
very good condition, except some hills
cut up by the lumber wagons The
hills near Mccormack and Pritchard' S
are cut up so badly that travel is diff
cult. | have notified the contractor of
the condition of the road. The road
near Jim Provinces needs some work
that is not covered by the contract.
The bridge at this place is in a bad fix.
| consider 1t dangerous.
Beat 4-The roads in this beat have
all been worked except the Hardy road
are in fairly good condition. Fixing
c~ulverts has been the work the last few
days, and | think that is the proper
thing to do. in fact. that and filling ir
low places and around bridges and cul-
verts, is about all that can be done IN
til it rains, and this work is certainly
needed more than anything else tina
could be done.
b at There has been no work done
in this peat this month. The roads ar
in good condition, except sons bad cul
verts. The excuse for this was, m
lumber. ! found a bad place on til,
Charleston road near the county line
that was almost impossible. notified
the contractor and he said he woulc
nave it fixed at once. The River bridge
and the one across Hoffa creek are il
bad condition; they are dangerous.