The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-12-17
kinent Questions Regarding Proposed
Bond Issue For Good Roads Answered
|By Polk County Good Roads Association

Is easily done ard without expert as
sistance. This makes the ,vorooo
yearly cost OF maintainance less
tnan two cents per square ward mr.
Slo5.6O per mile of nine-foot road
with this maintenance he states
mat the life q the road is in1if-
rite. When nther material is worn
II must be replaced at the origira,
ent time stretch of 80 miles is he
ing built in Lake county which road
experts nave pronounced to be as
me road as they have ever seem
having withstood the recent un-
precedented rainfall there while the
brick in the adjoining county was
torn up ana washed out by the same
rains.
1 NO. 11-WLt did not the Asso-
citation ask for the construction of
other roads. also important, but not
included IN the system outlined Oh
accompanying map?
The Association. did ask fer other
roads than those shown on the map.
but were denied, the county COM
missioners refusing to consider at
this time anything but the main
roads for reasons stated in answer
to question No. 3.
| No. 12--What is the route of me
Dixie Highway through Polk
county?
The route OF the Dixie Highway
through FOLK county is from the
Osceola county line through
Loughman, Davenport, Haines City.
Hucerne Park, Florence Villa, Win
ter Haven, Barlow, Fort Meade 70
Bowling Green, connecting with the
Rad through DeSoto county south
No. 13-CannoI the pledge of Tie
commissioners to build this portion
If the Dixie Highway be fulfilled
Without bonding the county?
The county commissioners have
pledged the completion of the Dixie
Highway through Polk county hy
May 20, 1916, and as this road is
approximately so miles in length ii
cannot be built without bond is
sue.
No. 14-Wlat would be the prot
allie result of failure to carry the
bonds so far as the Dixie Highway
is concerned?
A failure to carry the bond issu;
would doubtless result in specia
rDad district being formed in the
north end of tee county by the dis
riots of Winter Haven and Lake
E land Immediately after failure tt
carry the countrywide bond election
. and petition made to the DiNi'
:, Highway commission to accept tai
road to connect with Tampa ans
from thence east to Arcadia as
substitute for the route mentioned
in answer to question II, and 1t
considered that the north end of tn
county could easily carry such n
\ election
No. 15-Wny has brick not baal
= considered favorably?
y Brick has not been considered
\ favorably on account of cost and be
I cause the Association after thof
ough INVESTIGATION believe that as
phalt will serve the interest OF tn
+ county Just as we'll, if not better
than brick, the latter being hard OF
: all Kinds of vehicles, while aspha.
G involves no wear and tear on theH
: at all.
e No. l6--Why should Polk count
r taypayers thus put burden on thei
. rosterity?
e Polk county should no more hesl
tate to put so called burdens o
y their posterity any more than ou
i ancestors hesitatcc to place them o
us. The great public utilities we en-
h ioy today were the result 81 sue
bonding in the last generation
q railroads. telerhcnes, telegraph al
y other conveniences-their poster
I I'VE of this generation) enjoy, II
= Guiding the coed roads which 'ne
built and left, not as a burden ou
e as a heritage, to their posterity an
,v means of watch people have go'
1t ten together and formed thickly Sc
n tied and PHOSPHORUS communities
n No 1-.-Wky is so much MOI
y Mileage 10 be constructed in On
I. commissioners district than anoti
It err?
= Nor, mileage IS called for in Oh
d commissioners district than othei
;e for rue reason that one-third OF u
d entire county is embraced in th'
s. one district. and the plan OF col
10 neetinr every town in the count
ID With overv other town in the count
< simnI, calls for that much mileag
IF In this respect all the districts ha'
been treated alike
No tS-Will this burden not Ia
$ heavily on the small landowner?
Is No Every member OF the ASS