The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-02
GOOD ROADS
MEETING At
BARLOW TUESDAY

the Good Roads Meeting held in the
court house at Barlow on Wednes-
| day was the most important meet.
| ing ever held in Polk county. About
two hundred men. with the bright
ening and illuminating effect pro-
duced by number of ladies, met
to consider the final move to be
made in order to bring to a sue
cessful issue the campaign for good
roads in Polk county. The meeting
was under the auspices of the Polk
County Good Roads Association, or
! sanized eleven months ago and
which organization, through Chair
man Howard and Secretary Hol-
i worthy, with two representatives
i from each of the five Commissioners
Districts have done some fine detail
work in making thorough survey
OF the needs and how best they may
be met. A number of meetings have
been held in various parts of the
county, where enthusiastic interest
has been created; journeys have
been taken for the purpose of in
speeding the work of road construc
ton in other counties; a large
amount of correspondence with
highway authorities and Others.
having mature experience on road
building lines, has been conducted:
preliminary surveys, of non-tech-
nical nature of the present roads
needing Improvement and new ones
to be constructed have been made:
data secured as to the costs, eff
cheney and practicability of the var
lous types of construction: and a
great deal of detail work of this
Kind necessary in order to give an
intelligent view of all the matters
involved in getting ready to call a
oond election for countrywide
system of hardsurfaced roads.
This outline was the substance of
the report made by the secretary
and the unanimous vote of the large
number attending the meeting to
bond the county for two million dol
lars evidenced the enthusiastic in
terest and sentiment which has been
created
The Association has been given
ninety days in which, with the CO.
operation of the commissioners, to
complete all the final arrangements
necessary before making the call for
election. One important matter is
that of constructing five pieces of
sand, asphalt road in different parts
of the county for demonstration pur
poses. The commissioners expect to
begin this work within a few days
and while, of course, test of it's
wearing value cannot be obtained
for practical purposes, it is believed
that with the information of those
who have investigated this type of
construction where it has been test
ed for from three to seven years and
who report favorably on it's eff
cheney, that even a sight of it will
convince the Taxpayer of its SER
viceable value and cause him to
give his approval to the question of
bonds.
The sentiment of the meeting was
strong and unanimous for action
now and plenty of it, and it now
seems assured that before the end of
the present year Polk county will
have gone on record by a big ma
jority for bond issue of two millions
of dollars for good roads, throughout
the county.
map, showing the proposed sys
TEN of roads, may be seen at the
office of the Board of Trade in Bar
tow and the Chamber of Commerce
at Lakeland, and just as soon as a
Few corrections are made this map
will be engraved and printed in the
newspapers of the county.
There were some interesting short
talks made by some of the we'll
known men in the county but all
seemed to recognize that the day for
talking was over and this was the
time for action.
The representatives in the various
districts are asked to confer with
their Commissioner between now
and Tuesday next and meet on that
day in body, with the Board of
County Commissioners in business
session to go over. necessary details
pending a call for an election.
Members of the Board of Cover
nors of the Polk County Good Roads
Association are therefore requested
to be at Barlow on Tuesday next at
ten O'Clock or as much earlier as
possible, in order that there may be
no unnecessary delay in closing up
these matters of detail