The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-07-22
Morgan City-New Orleans
Highway Prospects For
Speedy Completion
Are Promising
State and Federal Road Elk.
perts Declare Work COntem-
templated To Be One Of The
Most Important Develop
ments OF The State

Houma, La, July 20.-Develop-
ments, which have come fast and
thick during the past week in Terre'
bonnie and Lafourche parishes, prom
Use an early solution to the problem
of completing the great system OF
good roads connecting New Orleans
and points in western Louisiana and
Texas through thiD sect:bn. Resi-
dents of these parishes, combining
interests and efforts with the big pur-
pose in view, spent practically the
entire week at work on the prelm-
inaries. Saturday work was in prog
ress all along the line, on> great
project which, when finished, will
have provided hard surface road
from Raceland, on Bayou Lafourche,
through Houma and westward to
Morgan City on the Atchafalaya
river.
When this highway is completed
residents of New Orleans, to say
nothing of the thousands who will
come to and through the Crescent
City from all parts of the country,
will have the opportunity of really
becoming acquainted with the won
derful section lying to the westward
of New Orleans. Until it is done the
wonderful charlottesville magnifi-
cent natural advantages and re-
sources existing here in the "bayou
country"-will remain unrecognized
as they have in the past.
Terrebonne made two great steps
in the right direction during the past
seven days. These were taken when,
through the efforts of the Houma-
Terrebonne Association of Com;
merce, two highway engineers of
nation wide prominence, Duncan
Buie, state highway engineer Of
Louisianan, and J. B. Faunueroy,
federal district highway engineer,
were brought here to investigate con-
ditions in erTebonne and the sur
rounding country with the idea Of
furnishing State and federal aid to
the project of building westward
from Bayou Lafourche. hard-sur-
faced highway to connect, on the
east, with the highway now under
construction from New Orleans to
and on the west with the
Morgan City Orange, Texas, link in
the Great Belt around the United
States.
Road Experts Astonshed.
The result Of the visits of these
two men was so great and apparent
ly so far reaching that, like all really
great things, they may be explained
in few words. Better let them be
the words Of the men, themselves:
II am perfectly astonished with
what have seen, said Mr.. Buie. 81
had no idea that such a country ex-
listed down here. / am with you.
You can count on me to do every
thing possible to bring this project
to completion.
IT favor the granting of govern
ment aid and government funds to-
ward building this highway" was
the statement Of j. B. Fauntleroy,
Uncle Sans engineer, whose duty it
is to pass upon proposed highway
construction where federal aid is
asked.
1T is truly a wonderful country.
Terrebonne is a land Of wonderful
advantages-wondeTful agricultural
wealth and splendid resources of
great variety. In addition it is a
most beautiful country. Idon't be-
lieve that even you realize how beau
tiful il is and how much that beauty
is worth to you. I want to see this
highway completed" -h 2
With these cheering messages from
the men to whom projects of this
kind are Of every day occurrence,
the people of this whole section have
put their shoulder to the wheel to
carry out their plans. These plans,
too, are of much wider scope than
before the engineers came to Terre-
bonnie. for, upon the suggestion of
Mr.. Fauntleroy. not only the link
from Houma to Raceland is now pro-
jected, but that from Houma to Nor
gan City is now in hand and going
forward at all speed.
Mr.. Buie was accompanied to Hou-
ma by George c. Merkel, manager of
The good roads bureau Of the Associ-
alton Of Commerce of New Orleans.
After being driven over a consider
able portion of the parish and find