Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-09
s,,ept One, Every Measure Isyu Issucht Was Put Thru by
 'ysS yrssSfferson's Delegation.
,rn STEP FORWARD
 0'NN IN ROAD BUILDING
II of Acts Will Be to Provide ,.hesst Arkansas With More Good p,.ds Than Any Section of State,
 Au Leading to Pine Bluff.

nno Rluff and Jefferson county won
 .,t in every measure it sought to
 ,,vo nassed by the Arkansas general
 ..,omhly at the session which came
 .s close yesterday, with the one ex-
 s.nt;on this being the proposition to
 ssro the automobile tax money re-
 .nrno1 tr to the county in which it was
 .olected for use exclusively in main
 hining roads.
 .The hill to have the state convict
 ,,rns nav improvement district taxes j;
 ihp hill providing for the issuance of
 honds for the erection of a new high school: the municipal court bill, and ,sp several measures concerning inn noyement districts, all were acted nnon fayorably, and in almost every
 instance these have already been signed by the governor. The one or two exceptions, it is confidently ex- nected, will be signed by the governor today.
 The high school bill and the mu- pcpal court bill are the measures which are, apparently, of the greatest direct interest to the people of the city. in that they more directly affect fine conditions existing the city. The new high school has been very badly needed for the past few years, and there is general cause for congratula- ton over the fact that the new build ing will be ready for occupancy, i barring unforeseen and unexpected delays. early in the coming year. The municipal court will not become an entity until the first of the approach / ing year. when it will step forward to take over the bulk of the business now transacted by the several justice of the peace courts.
 Section Leads in Roads.
 The adoption of the measure where l by the state convict farms will pay their pro rata part of the cost of good roads, levees and drainage, affects both Jefferson and Lincoln counties, and is expected to mean the carly completion of much work in these, lines, which heretofore has not been. attempted, because of the great expense and the financial burden upon private property.
 But in the matter of good roads, Southeast Arkansas has established a truly remarkably record during the session of the legislature by obtain ing the passage of legislation provid- ing for the building of more miles of good road, by approximately 6 or s to 1, than all the remainder of the state combined. A considerable per centage of this. mileage of new good roads will be built in this county.
 The district north of the river reach to Humphrey. Sherrill. Tucker and other points, and embracing B or All miles, is the most important of these measures in this county. The stretch connecting the dollarway with the re- gently completed road running east and west across Grant county. through Sheridan, is another important work opening up as it does another 40- mile feeder for Pine Bluff business houses.
 The Arkansas-Louisiana highway district, calling for the building of 9 system of roads extending from Grady to the Mississippi river and to the Louisiana line. a total mileage o1 about 12O miles. was of the utmost importance, and because the actua Work in this district is to be started at the very earliest opportunity, is o1 vast value to Pine Bluff, because i VIII open all parts of Desha ant Inlcot counties to local wholesale '"S distributors. The com pellon of this road and the building