The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1916-01-28

The road meeting in Springdale
Tuesday afternoon was attended by
delegates from Bentonville, Rogers,
Eureka Springs, Fayetteville and
Winslow; but the larger portion of
tn crowd was Springdale citizens
aud farmers, all of whom showed an
interest in the coed road movement
for this section.
/ Music was furnished by the local
band, and the meeting presided over.
by }. ?. Deayer, president OF the 10
cal organization OF the Ozark-Jeffer
son Highway.
Short talks were made by num-
Der of those present, the principal
speakers being f. c. Pritchard, of
Fayetteville; Prof. Thompson, of Eu-
reka Springs, who came to Spring
dale as a representative OF the Com
mercial Club at that place; DR.. Love,
of Rogers; Lon Pace of Bentonville,
and G. n Duncan, OF WinElow. The
meeting was very informal, not set
program being arranged but all pres
ent We're allowed an opportunity to
speak.
e c. Pritchard briefly reviewed
the project of the Jefferson Highway
from Winnipeg, Canada, on the north.
to New Orleans on the south. and
explained the workings of the Alex
ander= road law. Stating that it was
the only feasible plan under which
To construct the road through Wash
ington county.
In opening the meeting President
Deayer stated that the time for
long wiEded flows of oratory was
past; that the people Interested and
citizens wanted facts, and ask that
the knockers. if there should be any,
throw their hammers away, and get
down 10 practical business. He stat
ed that any man who knocked the
Alexander road law, knocked it
against his own interests, and not
against the interests of any one else.
Mr. Pritehard paid a high tribute
10 Benton county, in the matter OF
m 3terials with which TO build their
portion of the road at so nominal !
cost He laid special stress upon
the fact that Washington and Benton
counties were more fortunately situ-
ated with reference to building the
roads. than the mountainous coun
10 a. cd
that Benton county would build the
road at the Least expense of any
county in the northwest portion Of
the state as their roads at the pres
ent time were practically good. and
with a little grading would be com
pleted
Prof Thompson. president of Cres-
cent College ut Eureka Springs. and
president of the Commercial Club at
that place. was the next talker. Mr..
Thompson has already had practical
experience In road building under the
Alexander law. as Eureka Springs is
now building nineteen miles OF road
way under the prov sions of this law,
a roadway reaching from Eureka
Springs to Seligman, Mo. where they
will connect with the jefferson High
way. He gave facts and figures reia-
Tive u the cost of a road under the
provisions Of the Alexander road law,
and in a clear. concise way told OF
the amount the city OF Eureka
Springs was paying toward the road,
something over seyenty-fiVe per cent
of the cost. and yet benefited by on
/ ly one mile of road. Included IN
the road from Eureka Springs to Sc
ligman is an iron bridge over White
River, and this made the cost of
the road considerably above normal.
Prof Thompson came SprIngdale
/ in order to get the sense OF the road
organizations through this section
so that he might report to his city,
just what they might expect when
they completed their road into Sc
lignan.
Dr. Love and \. II Whitlow ex-
pressed fully the feeling of the road
builders at Rogers, more aptly ex-
pressed by a saying of Mr.. Whitlow
when he said Rogers is rarin' to
go.
Lon Pace. farmer and contract
or at Bentonville, who has large
holdings that will be benefited by
the roadway, spoke highly in favor
Of the project, and Of building the
road under the Alexander law
q n Duncan. president Of the or