The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1915-05-06

ped out of your county. and not |
single pebble used on your owl
county roads. Last year ther,
was shipped over twelve thousans
cars of gravel from Tishoming,
County. There will be a grear
deal more shipped away this year.
The freight on the gravel has
ranged from twenty-five cents Il
dollar per ton. We have ship
ped some of the gravel to point.
located over four hundred miles
from Gravel Siding to build good
roads. We have several points
that are using our gravel ex-
clusively that Is costing them
ninety cents per ton. They have
built these roads, including bridges
over hilly country, as we have,
and will complete the job at a
cost not to exceed four thousand
dollars per mile. Is there any
reason that Tishomingo County
should not only be the last, but
the very hardest, to get intereste d
in good roads. By doing so you
have held your county to be the
least developed county in the
State, You are losing valuable
time and opportunities bynot hav-
ing roads that you can travel over
any day in the year.i
This last winter / have left Iuka
on one of :...y trips when it would
be absolutely impossible to drive
a buggy from Gravel Siding to
Iuka, and have gone down in one
of the foreign counties in Mississ.
ippi, got in machine and driven
thru the country at a rate Of ten
to fifteen miles per hour, regard
less of the weather conditions.
These counti6 had just as bad
weather as yo4 have in Tishomin
go; and the roads that were not
made, were just'as impossible as
the roads inA this county. From
the nature Of Che soil a great many
of your roads ban be made of the
sand clay construction. using only
local material that is obtainable
on the side ofthe roads Of many
local gravel pits. Along your
different roads where vou can get
gravel you can build your roads
sway yonder cheaper than any
other county in the State now
building them. If these roads are
built properly the weather condi-
tions has absolutely no effect on
them. You can drive to any part
of the County reached by these
roads any day regardless of the
weather conditions,
Tisho,ningo county, being loca-
ted as it is, shonld build these
roads as an entire county, every
acre of land paying its pro rata
share of the cost of the construc-
tion, and every corporation, and
especially every foreign land
owner paying his pro rata share
1t means this to you, Mr.. Farmer,
that out of the entire cost of $780,
10000 you are going to pay very
small part of the cost tor these
roads and you will receive back
for labor, for team hire and feed,
that you sell the contractors that
build these roads, fully sixty per
cent or ninety thousand dollars
1890, 900. OO)
The writer had two road COM
missions from Poinsett County.
Ark, down to Greenwood and
Clarksdale showing them some of
the roads that had been built with
our gravel. These roads were
built under great difficulty thru
the liver bottom, nothing but
gumbo, and very wet bottom
lands. At Greenwood in one
place where they constructed flf-
teen miles of road over a very
wet low land that was absolutely
impossible to go anywhere, except
on gravel roads, we made 20 miles
per hour in an automobile. The
good road engineer informed us
that he had not done one cents
worth of work on these roads since
they were built. We took these
gentlemen from Greenwood to
Clarksdale and took them over a
piece of road that had been down