The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1915-05-13

Can You Give Any Logical
Reason Why You Are
Not In Favor of Good
Roads In TiSho-
mingo County?

lation to have good roads in Tisho-
mingo County at this time? Is it
not fact that your lethargy in the
matter of good roads and your or
position to them is caused by your
not knowing the benefits to be de-
rived from good roads, and your
not knowing how cheaply they can
be built if you go about it in the
right manner9 Is it not a fact
that your opposition to good roads
is purely personal and for selfish
reasonsf NOW, is it not a fact,
deep down in your heart, that you
do want good roads and you are
going to be an advocate of good
roads when you find that the Kali
road. the foreign corporations and
foreign land owners, owning land
in the county, are going to build
over half'>of these good roads?
And they will do it if you will
boost the program now being car
ried out by the Vidette. As out.
lined in our article last week, the
trunk lines through the county
will cost about twenty-five cents
per acre and you have twenty
10 thirty years to pay the twenty
five cents. 1t is also a fact that
these trunk lines will, in reality,
cost Tishomingo County only about
sixty, or seventy thousand dollars,
because the balance will be paid to
the farmers for labor, team hire
and supplies sold the contractor
that does the work.
While there is 500, 900 acres of
land in Tishomingo County and
while there is eleven thousand
people in the County cultivating a
little more than forty six thousand
acres of land, only one nineth of
the entire county is any way at
all renumerative to you. There
fore, eight ninths of your entire
wealth is lying dormant. You
might have leesons to hesitate in
going into this proposition if you
never expected the population to
grow and if you never expected to
cultivate but one ninth of the
County. Your Grandfather lived
without good roads, and you can
live here without good roads. but
there was lot that your Grand
father did not know about this
County, and there is a lot that you
will not know about this County
until you get good roads. There
is lot of hidden values lying alb
solutely dormant that will be de-
veloped by out side capital that
will come in here and put your
laborers to work just as soon as
you give them a means of getting
to and from your lands.
You cannot spend a dollar in
Tishomingo County without help
ing every other man in the County
to a certain extent. Every good
live farmer you induce to come to
your county, regardless of where
he locates in the County, helps
you, and those kind of farmers
will come to your county just as
soon as they know you are build
ing good roads, and they are
going to continue to go to other
counties that are building roads,
and are going to continue to de-
velop these counties and make
the land more val u a b lie,
until you begin to develop and inn
prove the natural resources of
your own county.
Now, let each of us forget our
personal prejudice in the matter
and each and euery one of US agree
with ourselves that we are going
to make our own town and our
own county just as inviting
as any other county in the State.
Let us boost good roads,
talk good roads, advocate
good roads, work for good
roads, pray for good roads, and
have good roads. If you
will only do it we can have these
good roads started in sixty days
time and can have the benefit of
them for the coming winter. You
know how bad the roads were last
winter and they are going to be