The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-03-06
ROADERS
ARE BUSY
IN GRADY
Construction Of Highways Moved From
Banquet Table to Hills and HOllOws
Of County
DOWN
ROADS WORST HILL
G-~--s
Fifteen Team Crew on Job; Move to Rush
Springs Next; Plan Work to
Cement

For some considerable time Grady
county has been building miles and
niles of perfectly good highway, but
the biggest stretches OF road have
been constructed around certain ban.
| quet tables. 1t is a fact that many
bad places on the various roads have
been ironed out and many 'culverts
have been put in.
Grady county now, however has
started what appears to be a genu
inc drive for the construction and
maintenance of good roads. The pro
gram is far-reaching and touches
every section of the county, includ.
ing the state road, north and south
through the county, the Ozark Trail
west to AnadarkO and the road south.
west to the young and tender oil field
around Cement. To these trunk lines
the plans are to build laterals.
At this time, work is IN progress
on what is probably the worst stretch
of road in the county. 1t is a mile
and is featured by a rocky hill. 1t
lies east of Ninnekah Fifteen teams
with full equipment are now hammer
ilg away at the hill, to bring It down
to a five per cent grade and to do
away with the rocky surface that
has been thorn in the side of every
one who is compelled to pass that
way. The work viii require a week |
or ten days yet to complete and when |
finished, folks will not recognize the
hill.
What that is finished, the crew
will move to the state road, north |
and south through the county, the
first work to be done at Rush
Springs, from which point they will
work north. This road, in the
southern part of the county, is to be
a sand clay road, up to state specifi-
cations, "a feet wide and with a IT,
inch crown 1t is probable that
crew will also be put on the north
end of the road that is in the Ninco
and Pocasset section where there
are some bad places. However, the
major portion of the work at the be-
ginning will be put on the Rush
Springs section, where the roads are
now next to impossible.
A stretch of road has just been
completed between Chickasha and
Tabler, and it is said to be probably
the best road in the county at this
time.
County Engineer Little and Com.
missioner Temple went over the Ce.
ment road yesterday, picking out
several points at which culverts are
badly needed. No definite plans
have been announced for work on the
Cement road, except that it is in
prospect, the intentions being to get
to it as soon as possible.
That the Cement road is one Of
the most important in the county,
from the standpoint of Chickasha
business men, is evidenced by ex-
pressions that one hears on the
streets every day. Also, the oil men
are authority for the assertion thet
at this time nothing could be of
greater benefit to Chickasha. Re
Gently a Chickasha man was in Gel
pent in conversation with two oil /,
men operating in the Cement field
when the subject of good roads was
touched upon. sb
In speaking of the conversation,
he said, These oil men were of the
opinion that if Cniekasha does not
get busy on the Cement road, the
town will lose out. They stated that
the business men in Chickasha wers
losing money every day because the
road to Cement is not in good cOndi- |
tion. Both stated that if a good road
we're constructed between the field
and Chickasha, a number of the Ce-
ment oil men would live in Chicka-
sha. Both liked the town and want
ed to live here, but stated that they
could not get to the field, except by
a maximum wear on their cars. Some
viii live in Cement, others in Ana