The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-11
Hon. M. M. Smith Named
Standardization Sec
retary and Commissioner
Deferred.
ANOTHER MEETING
TO BE HELD SOON
Department Members Go to
Mariana and Apalachicola
NO Funds Definitely
Designated.

Tallahassee, Fla, July 10.-After an
all day session taken up principally
with hearing the claims of delegates
designation of certain roads as state
roads and others as state aid roads the
state road department, finally got down
to the election of a chairman at eleven
O'Clock tonight The member elect
ed was Hon. NJ. NJ. Smith, OF Or
lando, who for the past four years has
represented the Fourth congressional
district on the state road depart
ment.
The retiring chairman is Hon. Ed
Scott of Arcadia, the member repre-
senting the First district. and who has
served as chairman since the organi-
zation of the department in 1915.
Mr.. Scott's term as member of the
department expires next October and
as the chairman is elected for a year
de claimed to allow his name to he Ore
scented. The election of a secretary and
state highway commissioner was
postponed to a later date.
Quite a mass OF routine business was
transacted yesterday but no decision
was reached as to the designatioG of
any additional roads or state aid
roads. The members of the depart
rient left last night for Mariana and
today will go to Apalachicola over the
road via Blountstown and Port St. Ice
which was recently designated as state
rcac number .. A meeting will be
held tonight at Apalachicola.
nf r 0eTpt
spent considerable time in going orcr
the various projects for road improve
mcnt upon which federal and state
fnuGs are to be used in conjunction
win county funds but this work was
not completed.
l. appears to be the sense of the de-
partment that the unInE-Dved gaps
on the principal trunk highways OF the
state shall be first taken care of be-
for, anything is done toward the desig-
naticn of additional reads sta,e or
s:S te aid roads. 1t was pointed out
sey eral times by road members of the
depa rtment TO the various delegations
rent esting assistance or at least the
designation of their particular roads s
state roads. that such designation did
not mean that the department would
be able to build the roads with the
funds available. Also that there az
pears to be a mistaken idea as to tho
number of miles of rold that can be
built with the funds which will become
available during the next two years
from federal and state sources.
The total amount, which is app-cxi- !
mately three million dollars of federal
aid and seven hundred thousand dol
lars per year for two years from the |
hNr Iacr+S
lature plus the value of the labor Of
the state convicts after next January. |
when the convict lease system. viii |
expire will not be sufficient to build |
one third of the mileage OF roads i
EN- braced in the roads already tenta-
tivoly agreed upon as constituting the |
present state road system of Florida |
The system has an approximate |
of seventeen hundred miles /
III the proposition to bond he state |
for road Improvement as is covered |
in a resolution adopted by the ieG's- |
latGre proposing an amendment to the |
state constitution to be submitted to !
the qualified electors of the state is |
ca' ed at the general election i'll 1920, /
then the state will have sufficient funds !
TO make a great showing in its system
IF state roads. Isut with me pr rsscnt |
Re requests of every county desir;n,
l l-;istance in its road construction pro-
ram.
Arother meeting; of the department
XII, he held in the very near future
- further consider upol whI> pro-
.ccts the funds availa BILE are to be
Laced. The state funds TO r'atc9 re
federal aid will not re avai!a 5;c l-e-
&c rext JanutI~y, rs they are 20 re
derived from 1919 taxes which are nos
iue until October and are scarcely ever
AVAILABLE before the first of the year
Officials At Marianna.
Earianna, July 1O.-The members OF
state road department the governor
md other notables reached this city
Ills morning and left at an early hoU;
or Mariana on famous Dead lakes of
Calhoun county, accompanied by sew
.rai read enthusiasts from this cl.v.
y fish fry and coed roads rally
vas Leld there to|ay attended by a
arge number of rCc.le inter ests N
oads. Il