The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-04-22
No More Banquet Table" COnstruc lion
Actual Moving Of Dirt in Every
Section Of County
MARK OZARK TRAIL
HERE ON WEDNESDAY
Cement Road LeIs Attention; Contractors
Busy at Rush Springs; Tuttle Bunch
Keep HammeriHg

There are no more roads being
constructed around banquet tables
in Grady county. Said construction
is actually taking place in practical
ly every direction out Of Chickasha,
where hills are being dragged down,
sandbeds made into highways and
bad cuts filled in.
Some Of this work is being done
by contract and will be paid for out
OF the county road fund, while in
some instances the county and the
townships through which the roads
are to pass will divide the expense
Still other work is being donated by
the farmers living along the route
and by the towns served by the
roads. But the point is that consid-
erable road construction is under
way.
Three to five crews are working
on one of the most important roads
in the county, from a Chickasha
standpoint. That is the Cement road,
under the direction of Burt Fields
who Of course works under the su.
pervision of County Engineer Little.
This work is largely being done by
donation at present MI. Fields has
been working oyertim since he was
elected route manager of the Chick
asha to Lawton division of the Mill
tary Highway. He is getting the
farmers lined up, as well as the
townships through which the road
will pass. The county is furnishing
feed for the teams at work on the
road and many Of the owners are
donating their services. Some of the
labor is hired, however.
The county engineer has been over
the route and has selected locations
where concrete culverts are badly
needed Some time will elapse, nee.
essarily, before these culyerts are
put in for they represent maximum
amount of work. The start on this
job has already been made by the
county. Material for the culverts
has been ordered and should arrive
i'll the next few days. The actual |
construction Of them win start as
micklv as pOssible.
1--WE are making some mighty good |
progress on the road" said Mr. |
Fields this morning. $50 much has
been said about the bad places IN |
the road, and so little about the good |
that the impression has |
been that the road is fierce. Now
this is not the case in a general |
sense. There are some mighty bad
places in the road, but on the other
hand there are stretches Of road as
good as one could want. Now our
idea is to work or these extremely |
bad places first, get the road in such |
that it will stand traffic |
and not shake a car to pieces. This |
we are doing. We are dorking on |
the worst places. When we get the |
road in fair shape, then we will go /!
back and make a real road over the
entire route. There are from three |
to five crews working on the road |
daily and we are accomplishing |
too"
In the south part Of the county, |
the bulk of the county contract work |
is going on. Beginning at Rush
Springs, Hightower and Cornelius,
contractors, are working north with
a big crew. They started at Main |
street in Rush Springs and Saturday
night had finished the road practi- |
cally to the town limits, This work |
is being paid for by the town of Rush |
Springs. The cOuntys responsibility |
will commence when the work leaves
Rush Springs and heads north, which |
will be today. This road is being
completed as the work progresses.
The half mile already finished in the
town of Rush Springs is complete
with the exception of "surfacing"
And in the meantime, that Tuttle
bunch continues to be at it hammer
and tongs on the Ozark trail. In
this section the county is putting in
the concrete eulverts and the town.