The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-07-14
County Commissioners Purchase the
First Gasoline Tractor; To
Start on Cross County
Highway at Once
ANOTHER ENGINE TO
Be STARTED SOON
Two Outfits VIII Meet at Ninnekah
with First Stretch Completed;
County to Spend $4,000
on Roads


SYSTEM of state roads" from a rout-
ing map on paper TO an actual net
work OF graded pixies will begin in the
region OF Pocasset the last OF this
week when an engine. bought by the
county commissioners yesterday, will
begin work on the main north and
south thorofare OF the county.
Purchase OF the engine from Pocas-
set dealers yesterday followed dem
onstration ON north-county roads in
which county commissioners were
convinced that plowing and grading
by the aid OF gasoline was the best
and most economical method possi-
BILE to employ The tractor a 1870
horse power, is to cost $1,000 deliv-
cred at Pocasset 1t is to be attached
TO grading tools already In the posses
sion OF the county.
Two men can run an entire grading
outfit with a gasoline engine as the
motive power. and two men are to
be kept busy continually in the
north part OF the county working on
the new hig' ways
But Grady county commissioners
are not to let the building OF state
roads between marketing places wait
on the work OF just one outfit. Pro
vided this engine proves as success
full as is expected OF IL, another, an
exact duplicate, will be purchased
and started on the north and south
road, beginning at Rush Springs and
working north TO meet the machin9
from the north part of the county.
With that one purchased yesterday
beginning on its stretch Of 30 miles
at once, the two are expected to meet
at Ninnekah some time this summer
with the first OF the cross-county
roads completed
Then the second OF the two ma
chimes will be delegated to the Rush
Springs east and west county road
and the other one win be brought
back to the county seat town TO be
gin the building OF graded highway
east and west from the city.
Even with work beginning before
funds are actually available, however
Grady county will not have complet-
ed system OF state highways in three
months nor probably in year" ] A.
Corzine, chairman OF the board OF
county commissioners said this MORT.
ing. These two machines will be
kept on the roads continually. but we
will probably be unable to get over
the entire system even in year The
building up of system OF good roads
in any county is not the work OF a
month, nor OF several months. 1t
takes years. But we are going to be-
gin it right now and keep at it until
we have all the chief marketing places
of the county connected with sur
rounding market places by a graded
highway"
Men who have been working over
the county this spring declare Grady
county roads to be in worse condi-
tion now than they have been in since
statehood. Any number of bridges
have been washed out by the heavy
rains and washing on the hillsides
has made even the chief roads over
which the farmer must haul his grain
to market almost impossible.
Work of rebuilding these roads IS
not to be delayed. Fifty thousand. or
approximately that sum. is TO be spent
In Grady county this year in replacing
bridges and in grading uphill and bo ,
tom alike