The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-08-14
Commissioners Inspect Conditions
in South. East Part Of Grady
County, Preparing to Act
on Petitions
FINISH POCASSET-
MINCO HIGHWAY
Grading Followed by Dragging;
Surveying Line from Pocasset
to Chickasha; Two Other
Tractors Start Soon

After spending four days inspecting
impossible canyons and rut-filIed
roads IN the southeast part OF the
county, Commissioners j. A. Robinson
and w. A. Mryant returned to Chicka-
sha late yesterday. They left ]. A.
ccrzine at his home In Alex.
Yes, Grady county must have bet
ter roads, Commissioner Bryant said
last night while waiting for the $3.50
train to take him on back to his home
in Pocasset Il don't see how those
people are going TO get their crops to
market. In the region or Bailey. we
saw better corn, we all agreed than
any we have ever seen in Oklahoma
but how In the world they will haul
the stuff over the roads In that sec
ton to a market, no one knows"
The three commissioners who have
the building OF state roads and the
locating of bridges in their charge
are not taking the judgment Of anyone
as to where roads should be surveyed
and where bridges should be placed
They spent all the time from Monday
morning until Friday noon travelling
n a hack Ger the southeast part Of
che county. making personal investi-
cation OF the highways after any num-
Der OF petitions had been presented
70 them for the opening up of new
roads.
Progress Is Made.
Meanwhile. road building in Grady
courty is progressing just as RAPIDLY
as possible The first stretch Of state
highway has been completed, that
from Pocasset 10 Minco. Though the
wet weather stopped progfess for a
day or two. the men with tractor and
grader are nov putting the finishing
touches 10 that eight miles of model
graded pike.
This eight miles is more than just
merely graded road II has been
dragged and packed by repeated trips
Of the tractor between the working
point and either Pocasset or Minco
untu il Is declared now to be the
model for all later road work in Grady
county" County commissioners here
have learned better. they declare, than
to make grade forty or fifty feet
wide. Commissioner Brsant says they
are not even thirty feet wide. In
fact. there is Just exactly % feet be
tween the two lowest points IN the
road. the outside extremities.
It is all done by measurement, too
Stakes are first driven laying off
lane just eighteen feet vide. exactl,
in the center Of the section line. The
graded just takes the stakes on III
first round Then two rounds arr
made with the pIow. eaeh furrow beini
a foot wide. This extends the grad
lO us NlutH ~ - itrt-
"A 22-foot grade does not reQuir'
much work 10 keep II up Mr. Bryant
who is as great a crank on roads a
are Commissioners Robinson and Coz
zine. said last night "a good roa
must have grade narrow enough $
that the water viii drain immediatel
down the sides. 1t takes too muc
work TO make high grade unless
is an arrow one, and the narrow on
aall require so much less draeginI
Dragging is an absolute necessity 0
any road
Drag Is Used.
Until the. grader reached the ha
way line from pocasset to Mineo, Il
men running the machine returned
Pocasset every night for gasoline an
other supplies. They pulled the roa
drag behind them After they reacht
the half way point. they mace Mine
Headquarters. doing the dragging a
every day between the larger town al
the place they we're working. This
one OF the things that Mr. Brya
saws has helped to make the Pocass'
Minco pike model one to be oopieu
other parts of the county.
Though the "Pocasset tractor