The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-03

sstance This makes the average
yearly cost OF maintenance less
than two cents per square yard or
sos 60 per mile of nine-foot road
With this maintenance he states
that the life G. the road is inditi-
mite. When nther material is worn
, il must be replaced at the origina.
ent time stretch of 80 miles is be-
ing built in Lake county which read
experts have pronounced to be as
fine a road as they have ever seen,
having withstood the recent urI-
precedented rainfall there while the
brick in the adjoining county was
torn up anu washed out by the same
rains.
No. 11-Wky 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 othct
roads than those shown on the map
hut 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, Haincs City.
!.ucerne Park, Florence Villa, Win
ter Haven, Barlow, Fort Meade TO
Rowling Green, connecting with the
r, ad through DtSoto county south.
| No. 13-Cacnot the pledge OF the
commissioners to build this portion
# the Dixie Highway be fulfilled
| Without bonding the county?
The county commissioners have
pledged the completion Of the DiSi"
Highway through Polk county hy
May 90, 1916, and as this road is
approximately SO miles in length it
cannot be built without bond is
sue
No. 14-Wnat would be the prob
allie 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 specia!
toad 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 -, and it Is
considered that the north end of the
county could easily carry such an
election.
No. 15-WnY has brick not been
considered favorably?
Brick has not been considered
favorably on account of cost and be-
cause the Association after thor
ouch 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 no wear and tear on them
at all.
No. 16 Why should Polk county
taxpayers thus put burden on their
rosterity?
Polk county should no more hesi-
tate to put so called burdens on
their posterity any more than our
ancestors besitatcc to place them or
us. The great public utilities we en-
10Y today were the result Of such
bonding in the last generation
railroads, telerhcnes, telegraph and
other convCnienceG-their noster'ty
tive of this geueration) enjoy, III
Guiding .he coed roads which they
built and left, not as a burden bu:
] 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.-Wky is so much mora
mileage TO be constructed in one
commissioner district than anoth-
err?
More mileage Is called for in one
commissioner 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?
No Every member of the Asso-