Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-01-23
M.-TO-B. HIGHWAY
TO GET $4,000
TO Be SPREAD OVER A PERIOD
OF THREE YEARS.
Much Road Building Will Be Done
With the $L7I2,000 Federal Aid
and Other Amounts That
Counties Will Expend

The State Highway Department CAV
out plans last week for the completion
of the main great highways through
the state within the next three year
at a cost O 81, 500, 900 by the state ant
certain an yunts of aid by the counties
MLMrHlS.TO-BRlSTOL.
Undtl he plans outlined the Mem
phis.to BlIstol is to be completed fol
its entire length through the state. II
also means the completion of the two
arms Of what IL called the Dlxie High
way. 1t Is understood that the Mem.
phIs.to Bristol and Dixie will receive
hrst aid.
some months ago blank was sent
to the authorities here asking what AID
this county would require for compile
ton of the M emphis- Bristol high
way anu $4,000 was asked for. 1t
was explained at the time that this
county was bonded to the limit and
hone for further aid trem the county
wouyasbe out of the question. 1t would
seem that the state highway commis-
sion, in granting the $50. 700 asked.
realize tnat this county cannot furnish
further aid IN completing the road.
Up to the present time there has
been close to $60, 000 spent on the Mem
phls-to Bristol highway through this
county. Forty thousand dollars was
the first amount used and later. when
the cuunty was bonaed for $500, OOO for
road building. $4,000 more was made
available. That amount has not been
quite exhausted.
There remains some work to be done
from Pleasant Hill on to the White
county line. Also short stretch OF
road at Dorton and Grab Orchard re.
mains uncompleted. In none of the
instances will the work De heavy or ex-
penslve and 1t is thought that the
amount of unexpended funds remaining
will be sufficient to complete the grade
through the county. That being the
case the $50. 900 that the state proposes
to spend IN the next three years would
be used for surfacIng.
The total SS0,0O0 cannot be used in
one year because it does not become
available III lump but can only be
hpnOnIpS
available from the SIS, 900. 900 appro
priated by the federal government to
the several states as set out some
months ago.
OF the total appropriation by the
government tennessee is to receive
81, 712,n 10 this amount is added
each year the automobile tax. which
will very materially increase the total
amount to be expended for roads
throughout the state.
The completion of the Memphis-to-
Bristol 10 regarded a. one Of the most
important Of any OF the road building
contemplated by the state. for until 1t
is completon auto traffic between Md
die Tennessee and East Tennessee IS
very much hampered and consider !
able volume Of business kept away
from Nashville.
The plan as outlined says: Cum
berland County-Ths sta to pay one
half the cost and the county one-haIf.
with the state fund not to exceed $780, I
900, and the county to pay any remain
DER"
That would seem to indicate that
this county will have to expsnd quite
q sum on the Aemph,s-te Bristol yet. ,
but when 1t 10 remembered that We
have 90 tar spent $50. .O00 and that the
county IL bonded to the limit and that
the state highway commission UNDER
stands that. there is little likelihood
that this county will be called upon for
further expenditure after the grade IS