Malvern daily record., 1917-09-04
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TAKES FIRST
 STEP FOR ROAD THROUGH COUNTY
Petition Will Be Filed Today by Judge Gr Asking State High Engin Survey Road Saline O

At a Special meeting of the Nal vern Chamber of Commerce last night the first steps were taken toward se- curing from the State and Govern ment, $12,000, which has been allowed to Hot Spring county, for road build ing purposes provided the county rais- es a like amount.
 County Judge Gilchrist explained to the Chamber of Commerce that Hot Spring county now has something over 100000 to her credit coming from the National and State Highway De- partments and this amount may be had and expended on the roads of our county, provided we comply with re- quirements.
 It was further explained that the first step in this direction is to file an application for an Improvement Dis trict."
 This app ication is made to the State Highway Department and they will send Competent Engineers to survey the route and make an estimate of the cost of building road over said route.
 The next step is petition from the people on either side of the proposed route not to exceed three miles from the road and if majority of the peo- pie petition fer said route, it is then put up to Commissioners appointed by the National government as to whether they will approve the expenditure Of the estimated cost or not.
 The reader will bear in mind that the State and National departments do lot propose to build eur roads entirely but they do propose to spend dollar every t.n,e we spend one, whic4 after all seems very liberal. The fact that the Railroads and all public business or corporation are called on to bear their prorata share of the Taxes and as the amount necessary can be raised and paid in ten, twenty, of thirty years this necessarily makes it very light on any individual taxpayer. The addi- tional in taxes would be small indeed compared to first class road
 The Chamber of Commerce discussed the most needed route in Hot Spring county and in view of the fact that 1t is proposed that Pike road be built from Memphis or some place back east through Ark. by way of Little Rock to TeXarkana, and as the Little Rock and Camden road by way of Clifford, from Saline county Line to Malvern and on down the Malvern, Philadelphia road to the Clark county Line South of Brown Springs, is the most direct route and could broadly be butt fo. less money than any other road of the same length in the county it was the wish of this body, with one dissenting vote, that this be laid out as an i'm provement District" and the county Judge was so instructed We hope that every one will become a booster for this laudible undertaking and that not only this but that many other lin- provement Districts may be laid out and it will not require many years to have pike roads in all parts of the county.
 The meeting of the Chamber last night was one of the best attended in some time, and much enthusiasm was shown over the prospects of getting an excellent road through the county
 Judge Gilchrist states that he has today forwarded to the State High way Department, a petition, asking that the engineers be sent to begin the survey of the road.