Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-03-04
PLAN TO BUILD
 37 MILES GOOD ROADS IN COUNTY
Petition for District to Build Roads to Altheiner and
 Wabbaseka. :.

To construct 37 miles of macadam
 roads to extend from the free bridge to Altheimer, Wabbaseka and Arkan-
 sas and Lonoke counties, petitions for the formation of road improvement district were filed with the Jefferson
 county court yesterday. The peti-
 tions bear the signatures of ma jority of the property owners in the territory affected, and County Judge
 c. M. Philpot has designated March 27 as the date on which hearing will
 be held.
 The roads, which are to be of gravel or crushed rock, will cost ap- proximately $1S5,000, and the route, as shown in the petitions, will be as follows:
 Beginning at the east end of the free bridge, and extending northeast across Plum bayou to about the cen ter of section 9, township four, range nine, thence southeast to Altheimer, thence north to the northeast corner of section 26, township three, range eight; thence west to the southwest corner of section 22, township three, range eight, thence north to the county line. Two spurs are to be built, one from Altheimer to Wabba- seka along the south bank of the ca nal of Drainage district No. 3 to the Arkansas county line, and another to begin at the intersection of the pub lie roads near the southwest curner of section 12, township four, range eight. thence east to intersect the road from Wabbaseka.
 The filing of this petition brings to three the number of projects for roads north of the river, which are likely to be prosecuted to successful consummation. Another petition pro- vides for the formation of district to build road north from the free bridge to Sherrill, F'erda and the Lon oke line. The other is for a district for roads in the Plum Bayou section, and is generally referred to as the Core petition. All of these roads will which there would be no incentive for the property-owners of the rich farming country north of the river to build good roads to reach Pine Bluff.
 A district has already been formed to build a good road from the free bridge to the cemetery road, thus af- fording good transportation facilities from the bridge to Pine Bluff.
 With the system of roads contem- plated by the signatories to the three pending petitions, the northern part of Jefferson county will be equipped with practically the system of modern highways proposed by County Judge c. M. Philpot two years ago when he advocated the creation of one large district to construct the needed inn proved highways. ~This proposition was defeated through the influence of owners of large property interests. The filing of the later petitions proves that the spirit of progress extant among the people of North Jefferson was i'~t to be thwarted, though the Philpcs, plan would have enabled the of the work at a slightly decreased overhead" eX- pense.
 That the system of roads will be is now believed to be as- sured, and when the projects have been realized there will be modern highways from the bridge-from Pine Bluff-to within a few miles of every farm in North Jefferson, giving to the great population of that territo, di- rect and quick means of transporta- finn tO market