Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-06-22
|1udee James Gould and Ma tional Bank of Arkansas Purchase $275, ,000 Issue
pERDUE COMPANY WILL BUILD ROAD
Material Will Be Bought From Little
 Rock and Atlanta Firms, According to Decision of Commissioners Who Will Build 43 Miles.

bond issue aggregating $275,000 was sold yesterday by the board of Commissioners of road improvement Edstrict No. IA, to Judge James Gould and the National Bank of Arkansas, botll of this city, for a purchase price of 95,SS, for bonds bearing per cent, the sale having been consummated yesterday afternoon at meeting of inc commissioners at the office of Humphrey & Tovey, engineers, for the district, in the Citizens bank building.
 The commissioners also awarded the contracts for the material and the work, in connection with the con- struction of the road, which will ex- l tend approximately 43 miles, reaching l over wide expanse of the county on the north side of the river, and put 1 ting Pine Bluff in direct, modern highway communication with virtually every community in that part of the county.
 J. A. Perdue & company of Pine Bluff received the contract for the grading, labor and other such por- tions of the work. The rock was ordered purchased from the big Rock Stone & Construction company of Lit tie Rock, the asphalt was ordered pur- chased from Finley Brothers, Atlanta, Ga., and the asphalt will be spread on the roadway by c. J. Finley, of Att lanta, Ga. 4a It was announced by the contrac- tors who were awarded the contracts, that actual construction work will be started as soon as the labor, tools and material can be assembled, and it is planned by the commissioners and the contractors to push the work to com pletion in the least possible time, compatible with the best of labor.
 The district is one of the largest and most important ever formed in this county, and the sale of bonds and awarding of the contracts is believed to mark the end of long series of eff forts to build such a system of modern turnpikes through that important and rich section of the country.
 Reaches Many Towns.
 The new turnpikes will reach from tne free bridge to Tucker, Sherrill, Ferda, Pastoria, Plum Bayou post office and other important towns and communities in the northern end of the county. This district, combined with District No. 15, which will reach Altheimer, Wabbaseka and other points Of importance, will give the northern half of Jefferson county the Dlggest and most complete system of modern roadway in any section of the state, approximately 80 miles of roads, which will cost approximately @o2o,0OO. in the aggregate.
 me officers of District No. 14 are U. B. Niven, chairman; c. H. Trip leu, Jr., secretary; D. E. Tucker, J. U. Ford and J. M. Barrett, commits sloners; Humphrey & Tovey, engi- neers, and Caldwell < Triplett, at torneys.
 Form Drainage District.
 ine Flat Bayou Drainage district of 1elierson county was formally or sanlzed yesterday forenoon, after a nearing in the office of County Judge H. |. F. Cheek, when Judge Cheek ruled .nat a majority of the property own M eIs m the district were in favor of ue formation of the district.
 1: F. Quattlebaum was elected 1unalrman, u E. l.. Bowe, treasurer and V. n: Bolinger, secretary of the com- nlsslon, the Parkes Engineering com pahy engineers and Crawford & hooker, attorneys.
 lne district was organized for the purpose of constructing drainage .s .snais which will drain and reclaim en euout ls,OO0 acre sof land lying be- 1"een Altheimer and Sherrill and i,., iu,ucKer, in this county, and the pre- .h .hn'aary survey of tho territory is m .ne basis for the estimate that the s7n cyrM aoo will cost approximately Baseball
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