Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-03
.CALLAWAY PREPARING
TO MEET AUDRAIN
Work Has Already Begun on Move.
ment TO Finance New CrOss-Coun-
ty Highway in the Kingdom
TO JOIN AUDRAIN ROAD
Road Will Be From Cedar City to Au-
drain Line-A Branch of the
Ozark Trail to Hannibal

Plans for the organization of two
more special road districts in Gala
way county, with view to building
permanent road from Cedar City to
the Audrain county line, are being dis
cussed in the sections through which
the road would pass. This road will
connect with road already financed
and to be built in Audrain county in
the spring. The road extends from
the Galloway county line to this city
and thence north to the Rails county
line. This is the 0zark's Trail route.
In speaking of the activity in Gala
way the Fulton Gazette says:
"a road from the State Capital co
Northeast Missouri, passing through
Galloway county, has been approved
by the State Highway Commission,
and if the property owners living along
and adjacent to the road desire to build
permanent highway, they can get
half the money to pay for the work
from the State and Federal Govern
ments, provided they make their ap-
plication before the aid funds are ex-
hausted.
Before anything else can be done,
special road districts will have to be
formed by the county court, which
must come as the result Of petitions
from the owners of majority of the
land acreage of the districts. Action
can be taken by the county court at
its February meeting, that being one
of the courts regular sessions, if the
petitions are filed with the county
clerk so that he can give notice by
publication in papers published jan
uary II. If it is not done then, ac-
ton will have to be deferred until
MAY, and much valuable time would
be lost.
"After the formation of the road
district and the appointment of COM
missioners, further moves, such as
making surveys and estimates, voting
bonds and raising money by private
subscription, would be up to the peo-
pie of the districts.
"Definite form has not been given to
the movement in either of the propos-
ed road districts, but word that has
come to Surveyor W. P. Divers, W, E.
Jameson and J.. L. Maughs, of this
city, who gave much assistance to the
work in both the Williamsburg CAL
wood and Millersburg districts, indi-
cate that meetings will be called to
consider the matter. All of the gen.
tlemen say they are willing to start
the new year by helping each dis
trict in the work to be done. Men at
New Bloomfield who are interested
have sent them word to be prepared
to help in that section, and McCredie
farmers who were in Fulton Saturday
expressed themselves in favor Of the
movement to the extent of making
liberal contributions to the work.
"The road between Fulton and Cedar
City is travelled as much probably as
any in the Kingdom. Angling across
the county, it serves Darlington, Guth-
rie, Dixie, Tebbetts and other towns
in the southwest quarter of Galloway,
as we'll as the towns on its line.
Putting a permanent surface on it
would mean a great deal to the peo-
pie of an immense territory, and per-
sons in touch with conditions feel that
an effort to do the work will be made
early the coming year.
"The north Galloway road also would
serve hundreds of people and add to
land values and the comforts of trav-
ell in one of the wealthiest and most
prosperous sections of Central Mis-
souri,"