The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-06

sistance. This makes the average
yearly cost of maintenance less
than two cents per square yard or
$1O5.60 per mile of nine-foot road :.
! With this maintenance he states
that the life OF the road Is indifi-
mite. When other material is worn
it must be. replaced at the original
/ ent time e stretch of 32 miles is be-
ing built in Lake county which road
experts have pronounced to be as
fine a road as they have ever seen,
having withstood the recent un-
precedented rainfall there while the
brick in the adjoining county was
torn up and washed out by the same
rains.
No. 11-Why did not the Asso-
citation ask for the construction Of
other roads, also important, but not
included in the system outlined on
accompanying map?
The Association. did ask for 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 ;ne
Dixie Highway through Polk
county?
The route of the Dixie Highway
through Folk county is from the
Osceola equity line through
Loughman, Davenport, Haines City.
Lucerne Park, Florence Villa, Win
ter Haven, Barlow, Fort Meade 70
Bowling Green, connecting with the
read through DeSoto county south.
No. 13-Cacnot the pledge of the
commissioners to build this portion
Vt the Dixie Highway be fulfilled
without bonding the county?
The county commissioners have
pledged the completion of the Dixie
Highway through Polk county by
May 20, 1916, and as this road is
approximately so miles in length 1t
cannot be bull! without bond is
sue.
No. 14-Wnat would be the prob
able result of failure to carry the
bonds SO far as the Dixie Highway
is concerned?
A failure to carry the bond issue
would doubtless result in a special
road district being formed in the
north end of tee county by the dis
riots of Winter Haven and Lake
land Immediately after failure to
carry the countrywide bond election
and a petition made to the Dixie
Highway commission to accept this
road to connect with Tampa and
from thence east to Arcadia as a
substitute for the route mentioned
in answer to question IL, and it is
considered that the north end of the
county could easily carry such m
| election.
No. 15-Why has brick not been
! considered favorably?
Brick has not been considered
favorably on account of cost and be-
cause the Association after thor
ough investigation believe that as
phalt will serve the interest of the
county just as we'll, If not better,
than brick, the latter being hard on
all Kinds of vehicles, while asphalt
involves nc wear and tear on them
at all.
No. 16-Why should Polk county
taxpayers thus put a burden on their
rosterity?
Polk county should no more heSi-
|
tate to put SO. called burdens on
their posterity any more than our
ancestors hesitated to place them on
us. The great public utilities we en-
| joy today were the result of such
| bonding in the last generation
railroads. telephones, telegraph AID
other convenien ces-their posterlty
1--WE of this generation) enjoy, in
Guiding the good roads which they
built and left, not as a burden but
as a heritage, to their posterity and
by means of which people have got
ten together and formed thickly set
tied and prosperous communities.
No. 17.-Why is so much more
mileage to be constructed in one
commissioners district than anoth-
err?
More mileage is called for in one
commissioners district than others
for the reason that one-third of the
entire county is embraced in that
one district. and the plan of con-
Meeting every town in the county
with every other town in the county
simply calls for that much mileage.
In this respect all the districts have
been treated alike.
NO 1S-Will this burden not fall
heavily on the small landowner?
| M Every member NJ the Asso.