The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1915-06-10

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from over the county there seems
to be great many absolutely in
favor of the road movement, but
among them few that seem to
misunderstood and do not realize
just how they will get these roads.
This article is written for the ex-
pressed purpose of making that
part of the matter clear to them.
First of all. let me say that the
bond issue is the only way that
you are ever going to get these
roads SO that they will do any
| good. | absolutely agree with
Voter (Brother, do not be afraid
to sign your name, unless you are
| ashamed of it, and / know you
are not. People will think a great
deal more of what you write and
give it more consideration if you
will sign your name.) that if the
money now being spent on roads
| and the labor that is to be spent on
roads was properly directed and
when these people come out on
the roads to work that If they
worked on the roads you would
have better roads than you now
have, but what is everybody's
business is nobody's business and
a man that has never seen road
does not know how to take ad-
vantage of the grades and curves
in order to give the minimum
amount of load lift, does not know
how to properly direct a road.
Your Supervisors are all honest,
hard working business men, but
they never had any experience i'll
road building and they do not
know how to direct the road work,
if they were properly supported
with the labor that the law now
gives them a right to summons on
the road. 1t costs just as much
money, if not more, and a longer
time to educate men capable of
building your roads than it does
to make good doctor or lawyer
in your County. Therefore it is
useless expenditure of money
for you to try to build roads un-
der the present system.
A good engineer can be secured
that will lay out these roads and
direct the construction of them at
cost that will be exceedingly
small for the benefits to be de-
rived.
Pick out three of the best men
you have in the County and ap-
point them as the road commis-
sion, these men getting salary
that will justify them in making
good roads business their entire
business and it is their business
to see that these roads are prop
erly built as per the specifications
drawn up and to see that. they are
properly located.
While in Detroit this last week
| interviewed two bond houses,
and after looking up the resources
of Tishomingo County, .they in
formed me that they would be very
glad indeed to bid on our bonds,
assuring me that we would have
no trouble, at all, in getting the
money on our issue.
This would give us our money
by early fall, so that the roads
could be started and used this
coming winter.
Several have said to me that
they would be in favor of the bond
issue and the building of these
roads if they knew the money
would be spent on the roads.
Gentlemen, if you will follow the
plan outlined in our articles there
is absolutely no chance for sin
gle penny of graft to creep into
the building of these roads. AS
shown in our last article to do
your entire work on the unit ba-
sis, clearing and grubbing is done
by the acre. If a man clears a
half acre or three acres or ten
acres, he gets paid for the exact
amount of work that he does.
which is all figured out by the
engineer and commission before
the contract is let, paying so much
per cubic yard of dirt moved,
which is also figured out before
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