The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1915-05-06
Good Roads In TishomingO
County. Why Not?

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To the Editor of The Vidette:-Ir
accordance with your request tc
give you an article on good road:
for Tishomingo County, outlining
to you the cost of same and the
benefits to be derived therefrom
i | have been some time in getting
! lthis data together.
| / find that there are 36o,32s
acres ofland in Tishomingo County
the total valuation of which is ST..
| AS, 481 90. That the average
assessed value of land in cultiva-
ton is $50 per acre. That the
average value of wild land is three
i dollars and twenty cents per acre.
| The Assessors books show value
of personal property $735, ,725.O0
| 1t also shows railroad and tele-
phone lines assessed at $1.005,
| $50 90, making a total assessment
of the county of s., 1S6, SOP 90. /
| find that there is $4,000 acres of
land owned in Tishomingo County
| by nonresident corporations
amounting in assessed value 70
Sl1O, 900. 90. ! find that there is
| approximately 500 miles of county
road with population of IL 900
people in the county, or a popula-
ton of twenty-five people to the
mile of road find forty four
miles of railroad in the county,
not including sidetracks, which
would increase the number ten or
| fifteen miles.
Tishomingo people should turn
their first efforts to building trunk
pixies through their county. these
trunk lines running north and
south, and two east and west thru
| the county. There should also be
| roads built from these trunk lines
to different neighborhood points
hat would serve the different com.
munities in the proper manner.
Tishomingo County is about
thirty six miles long and only
eighteen miles wide. Trunk lines
Of total length of fifty miles
would make this county's S
transportation facilities in excel
lent condition, as trunk lines run
ming north and south near the
center of the county would be
from six to nine miles of any point
in the county. These trunk lines
should be at least sixteen feet
wide, which would give sufficient
room for two heavy wagons, or
two automobiles, to pass without
getting on the dirt roads. The
neighborhood roads can be easily
cut down to about ten feet, and
will greatly cbeapen the cost of
construction. We have figured
out the cost of these roads, and
have found out that the entire
roads can be constructed, includ-
ing bridges, at a cost not to ex
ceed $3.50, 10000, or little over
forty cents per acre, and you have
twenty, twenty Eve, or thirty years
to pay in if you desire. OF fcourse,
the interest on these bonds comes
each year, which would amount to
100000, which would have to be
paid. Now this is figured only on
assessing each acre in the county
SO much per acre. Kindly refer
to the figures shown above-that
one half of the total assessed value
of Tishomingo County is either
railroad corporation or foreign
land owners. If the railroad and
foreign corporations were to pay
as much tax as the land owners
then there would not be more than
about twenty cents per acre taxes.
This twenty cents added to the
cost of your land, which you have
twenty, or thirty years to pay in,
will enhance the value of land now
TN cultivation about five time its
present value. 1t will enhance the
value of wild lands to even great
er amount. Nowl this is not a
wild guess but actual experiences
in Alcorn, Prentiss, Lee, Clay,
Chickasaw, Lauderdale County
and each county in Mississippi
that has built good roads.
1t probably will be surprise to