The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-16
OCAlA AND MARION COUNTY SET FLORIDA
AND THE SOUTH A GOOD EXAMPLE

MS personal attention during the
day. One of the county road crews
with the county's road building ma
chinery worked here during the day
A cutoff on the road just north of
the Haycraft home will make passing
on this route much better There
were several sharp turns and joys
in the road between the Haycraft
, place and the Christian church These
have been Strengthened out. and the
work of resuryeying and placing
grade stakes. etc, along the route
was in charge of Civil Engineer R.
L. Martin. The road along this point
had been tolerably we'll graded be-
fore and it is now surfaced with
what is said to be a splendid lime
rock material.
The workers on this and the next
northerly division took their mid
| lay meal at the Shearer place and at
Fellowship school house, these sta
lions being in charge of Mrs. Bittin-
ger and Mrs. Perdue.
The Lucius section, composed OF
the road between the nine and
| ewelve-mile posts. takes in Fellow
| ship and Berlin. The bad places in
! this section were given special atten-
ton during the day, the several hills
! just beyond Fellowship being thrown
! up and resurfaced with a good quail
ity of clay and lime rock which was
found in abundance in number o.
pits very conveniently located.
| The Berlin workers took their
dinner under the large oaks in front
OF the Seckinger home just west OF
the postoffice, with Mrs. Moorhead
and her able assistants.
Mr.. Proctor had charge Of the fifth
section. which includes Blitchton,
and vicinity. His crew had been
at work for several days on the road
several miles east of Blitchton and
the grades were thrown up in good
shape for receiving the rock placed
there during the day. Mr.. Wallace
had charge OF the filling in of low
place just east of Blitchton and TAX
ing the large roacks from the road
at the top of the high hill half
mile away. Rock for surfacoing at
this point is secured from two pits.
one east and one west of BlitchtOn,
and with the proportion Of clay
contained in both pits the road at
this point will no doubt be equal to
any in the county after today S
work
Mr.. Ben Bitch has charge of a
crew working at the rock pit west
Of Blitchton and also the one doing
the surfacing for mile westward
and he prOnounces the material A
for the purpose. He is assisted in
the supervision of this division by
Mr.. C. A. Carter
The workers just east AMI west
Of Blitchton took dinner at the
Blitchton school house. This dinner
was under the supervision of Mrs
S. H. Bitch
The last section which reaches
from the fifteen mile post to the
Levy county line is in charge OF
Commissioner Watkins. He has az
his two supervisors assisting in the
: grading Messrs. c. II. Gray and E
5. TIMER Mr.. Gray has the east por-
ton. This entire section has been
: Strengthened and several burrows
: with a large pillow has been run or
: both sides thus making a strong
: shoulder to retain the filling and
surfacing put in today.
The material being used here is 6
: dark clay and sand mixture which is
: said to make splendid filling and
: really need very little rock TO make
hard road.
Mr.. Tyner.s large crew is at work
, en- the last stretch OF one and one
half miles east of the Pleasant Hill
Baptist church which is located only
: about a hundred yards from the
, Levy-Marion county line. A steer
; hill is being cut down about mile
; east of the church and the material
hauled 10 the low places on both
sides
\ large number of teams and
workmen on this division were fur
nished by the Morrison Lumber Co.
in Levy county. showing that these
people are as anxious for good
road to Ocala as are our own.
A surfacing material was found
by Mr. Tyner near the road which
will in all probability be found TO be
the bes: on the route. i is mix
rure OF lime and phosphate rock and
clay. Blasting was begun early IN
the morning and sufficient quantity
OF it had been secured TO put good
surface on the section over which