The Little River news., 1916-04-26
FOREMAN ROAD
 BOOSTERS HERE
Money Raised for Preliminary Sur yey of Road Through Country;
 Work to Begin Soon.

Foreman road boosters were here Monday night, eighteen CT twenty strong, to meet the Ashdown road boosters. On account of short notice and lack of sufficient understanding the Ashdown crowd was net so large aH 1t should have been, and those Who were present took lesson from the sp.1it of the live wires here from l Foreman.
 Ju6ge Lon T Jones was chosen as chairman of the meeting and Dr. c. E. May secretary Hon. J. O. Live say Of Foreman stated the object of the meeting. He said that it was we'll known that owing to recent decis- | ion of the Supreme Court that road building had been hampered on ac- court of the small force of state en- gineers and the very limited amount of work that they could do. He stat ed that the engineers were now at Foreman surveying a road, and that
 
 1 for preliminary survey for our coun " link of the Jefferson Highway and have the work done while the engineers could be had. Fareman wanted the road to connect with the Sevier link at Morris Ferry already surveyed, and wanted it to come by | hat rla fn {. e | down. He pointed out the advantage of this route, such as a greater num- Der of people to be served, better right of way, gravel near at hand, and a distance not over four miles | greater than along the K c. s. Fore man had already raised over half of the $400 required, while Richmond at 1 a meeting that afternoon had raised l $40. They wanted to know if Ash l down would meet them half way to 1 Foreman on the expense. There fol- lowed general discussion as to route to be taken. It was finally decided to run west from Ashdown to Wade's Chapel to Foreman with a spur. off to Richmond.
 Money Was Guaranteed. The Ashdown people guaranteed $100 of the expense and raised a ! greater part of it in the house. This | appears to be the most feasible route for the read Judge George pointei out that road built by the people should be where it would serve the local people most in business way Long distance travellers, who might use it would be the least considerat- ion. The view was also taken that we would have road that was need ed whether the Jefferson Highway come this way or not, but the highway would come where the roads were built first
 The road will be surveyed, the work to begin probably in a few day. It was declared that this meeting was not for the purpose of building road now, but to ascertain the cost Tten the people who live and own property along the route could know the cost before any petition was cir culated. The petitions could be cir Culated and the districts formed after tae cost was known, and after tine pro- perly owners were we'll informed as to the facts. This could be done at any time in the future. The survey must be made now while it was pos siDle 10 get the engineers.
 It might be mentioned that the Foreman people are going after this thing like they mean business. If the two large towns in Little River county work together something can be done to the advantage of the en- tire county. If we are not wide awake they are liable to wake Us up, and something tells us that we are going tc have to go some to keep this pace tl,at they have set.
 Among these who were here from Foreman were: J. O. Livesay, Drs. T T. and l.. c. Shakelford, Bob Snack e,ford, Frank Homer Judge N. A. George, G. A. Lollar. D. A. Cook, w. M Gathright, Andy Hooper, Frank Can't, R. P, Lindsay.