The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1916-01-30
WILL COMPLETE ROUTE
OF JACKSON HIGHWAY
THROUGH COUNTY.
BONDS WILL BE
ISSUED AT ONCE
Disbursement Of Money Will
Give County Magnificent
System of Public Roads.

After numerous consultations.
confabs and conferences, the com
missioners Of the several different
road taxing districts throughout the
county have at last united upon a
plan for improving the public roads
and have agreed 70 ask the board Of
supervisors TO issue bonds totaling
$4,000 for the purpose of under.
taking and carrying on this work.
The plan agreed upon contemplates
that the first district shall furnish
$4,000, the second district $4,000
and the fourth district $4,000.
While the second district will par
ticipate in the expenditure, how
ever, none of the money will be
disbursed within its confines, the
entire amount being used to i'm
prove public roads in the first and
fourth and fifth districts.
The second district has recently
expended $4,000 in bettering its
roads, and the additional outlay Of
$l23,000 will make a total disburse-
ment Of $4,000 on public high
ways in Lowndes county during the
short space Of a year
The proposed expenditure will
not only complete the route Of the
Jackson Highway through Lowndes
county, but will complete the coun.
tvs good roads system, and in agree
ing to share the expense Of con.
struction in outlying territory the
members of the local district dis
played commendable wisdom, for
Columbus is included in their juris.
diction, and whatever helps the
county at large will naturally bring
beneficial results to the capital and
chief city.
or the $4,000 to be furnished by
the second district, the first district
will receive $4,000, the fourth dis
trict $4,000, and the fifth district
$4,000 The $4,000 appor-
toned to the first district will be
used in completing tho Military road
which forms a part of the route Of
the Jackson Highway, from the cor
porate limits of the city to the Ala.
bama state line, and TO improve the
Wolf road. On the west side of the
Tombigbee river the newly con-
structed rock road, which also forms
a part Of the official route Of the
Jackson Highway, will be carried on
from the point where it now ends
which is five miles southwest of Co
lumbus, via the plantation Of Mr.
Cary Cooke and Old Charity church
to the Noxubee county line. The
Macon road will be improved to the
line dividing the fourth and fifth
districts, from which point commits
sioners from the fourth district will
continue the improvement 70 the
county line, and the Gilmer road
will likewise be put in first class
hape. Commissioners Of the Arte-
sia and Bent Oak, and thence TO
Richards store, where it will con-
meet with the Jackson Highway
thus completing the good roads
system Of the county and giving all
roads not only with connection to
the national thoroughfare which
is to be constructed in honor of
"Old Hickory" but with the good
roads systems of surrounding coun-
ties.
A committee consisting of Messrs
7, J. Locke, Jr., r. r. Banks, Irwin
Kaufman, S. B. Street, Jr, and J.
B. Love, has during the past few
days been circulating petition re-
questing the board of supervisors
to make provision for the issl>xce
Of the bonds and similar petitions
are being circulated in the outlying
districts by other committees These
petitions are being literally signed
and the issuance of the proposed
| bonds is practically assured.