The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-02-04
Many Topics Up for Discussion
at Chamber Of Commerce
Meeting; Crowd Attend
ing Is Small.
HIGHWAY WORK IN
COUNTY UNDER WAY
Cement Rush Springs, Lucille
Meridian Roads Reported;
Cotton Seed Question
Discussed.

AT the regular monthly meeting of
the Chamber Of Comermce held last
night in the rooms, fifth floor First
National bank building, the discus
sions ranged from the building Of
g3c3 roads 10 ne p'5~-'-T C. cc'ton
On Grady ccln J. fa~ for tho ma-
tual beaofit Of fe 'mer. eal business
men, and half way back over Tie
road to whether or not the Chamber
of Commerce shall employ band
master to have charge of the ambi
tious musicians in general and the
Chickasha band in particular, The
meeting was attended by about
dozen individuals.
Good Roads Building.
The various reports on good roads
activity in the county showed that
considerable work has been done
and is now going on. Conde Nc
Ginly and T. J. Brown, secretary of
the chamber reported on a meeting
held at Cement and at which time
it was decided by the Cement peo-
pie to vote township bonds for to-
tai of $65,000 for th Improvement
of the roads in that vicinity The re-
Fort carried the assurance Of the
Cement people that the roads would
be put in good shape to connect
with the Grady county roads at the
western limit of Hillsboro township
Mr. Brown in making a report On
the Chickasha-Lindsay road stated
that the road was now complete to
two miles beyond Lucille and that
the right-of-way had been secured
along the Rock Island railroad over
a considerable portion of the route,
making it possible to put in road
with a very little grade. A bridge is
needed across the Washita river it
was pointed out and the belief was
expressed that in the July budget of
the county it viii be possible to in
clude funds for such a structure.
Progress to South.
Other reports showed that the
road from Rush Springs to Chicka-
sha was in good shape for stretch
Of about seven miles north of Rush
Springs leaving mile and quar-
ter of sandy road badly in need of
repair. 1t was shown that there
was fund Of something like S1,750
available for a road in the Rush
Springs vicinity, other than the mile
and quarter in question, No bids
had been received by the commits
sioners on the proposed road, hence
/ Dave Hybarger, Judge R. E. Daven-
port and o. L. Bingham were ap-
pointed on a committee to call on
the county commissioners and en-
deavor to get the money in question
transferred to the sandy stretch in
order to get it complete.
Still additional reports brought
forth the statements that the Tuttle
road was getting in bad shape for
simple want of maintenance; that
$4,000 was available for work on the
verden road and that promise of
contract on that had been secured
from the county commissioners and
that the Meridian highway north of
Chickasha had received a great deal
Of work.
Cotton Question Discussed.
F. F. Ferguson, representing a
seed farm explained the advantage
to a community in raising a long
STABLE cotton, standardized, thus
creating a market for that cototn.
He declared that premium of $40
a bale would be paid on such cotton
in Grady by careful handling and
raising
]. w Owens explained the import
ance of keeping the cotton seed pur-
chased here in the trade territory OF
Chickasha this year. that it might
all be ginnei at one gin and thus
/ Continued on page six.)