The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-12-17

for Is days. eve have worked up four
or five miles of the road already" he
said. Lamar county will do every
thing that is required of it, and by
the first of June l believe that every
foot of the road will have been com.
pleted."
H. Weston, of Logtown, made the
report for Hancock county.
| Our roads already have been |
built" he said, land all are in first |
class shape. There is only one county |
in Mississippi that has better roads
than Hancock, and that is Lauder
dale
| He suggested that an up-keep fund
be provided, once the roads are built. |
This will be absolutely necessary"
he continued. mo matter how good
the road is at the start, it must be
kept in good shape afterwards
For Pearl River county, T. A. Rawls,
of Poplarville, made a brief report
and then introduced M. Clark, mem
Der of the board of supervisors of
that county. He told of the wonder
| full progress that county has made
: during the last four years. He said
that the roads already have been
, graded, and that by January 1, work
, on elevating and gravelling them will
be commenced, and that all of the
> conditions necessary will be met
+ j. M. McBeath, vice president of the
|, !, association, and one of the leading
good roads advocates in Mississippi.
[. made the principal address of the
v day. He told of the work already
t done by the various counties, and of
r what still remains to be DONE He re.
. viewed the work of the association,
: and told what Mississippians have
l. done toward having the route pass
/. through this state.
"Lauderdale," he said, in explaining
Q the cost of good roads, "has spent
> something like $450lOOO during the
>' last four or five years on good roads
" But this has been bread cast upon
,e the waters. The highways have in
creased the value of the property o.
" that county from 100 to 300 per cent.
q "The President lof the American
:. Automobile Association told me tina
n there are 100000 automobilists in thu
10 north and east who want to make tn,
in trip south, and are waiting for thu
le highway to be constructed He salt
AZ that the number of persons who will
- make the trip south will make tn
= road pay 100 per cent dividends"
NJ Mr.. McBeath then asked that a res
is olution be adopted, requesting al
I'd boards of supervisors to promise t
es have the road passing through thei
~ respective counties, completed b
a. June 1, next. This was adopted.
ne The following dispatch from Nerd
o. an today will be of interest to Forres
n county roads advocates:
Enthusiastic letters are being r.
ceived all along the line of the Jacl
son highway, especially in Mississippi
where road building will commend
after the first of the year and eac
county will endeavor to complete ii
unfinished links of the road in recoi
time.
VI In Lauderdale county the three CO
-" vict camps will be put on the highw;
and complete the unfinished sectit
'N' in fifteen days. The part of the 70;
which needs working is south of M
leu ridian to Clarke county line. TIL
lhe road about five miles rock road al
DC the balance sand-clay, needs workil
'he on the far end. The present plan is
as move all the county convicts and no
uth equipment to this point and push t
the road to completion.
sew Vice President ]. M. McBeath h
sep' received an interesting letter from
ms G. Dent, one of the pathfinders co
lree mittee, which went over the Mississ
pi routes. Dr. Dent said that he "
re- very much interested in the activ
the shown by Mississippi and stated Il
ave at recent meeting of the Comm
al cial Club of Bowling Green, KY,
j OF made an address on the developm
he of the South, and distributed cal
QUITE showing pictures of the roads aro'
II Meridian. Mr.. Dent also stated
Mr.. Grim, another member of
lmar pathfinding committee, had told
road that he was going to do the 81
alton thing. when he made a talk before