Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-13
SOUTHERN STATES HAVE
! GREAT ROADS PROGRAM
Texas Leads With Provision OF 5000
"a, 100000 for Highways to BE
Spent in Few Years.
INTEREST is WIDESPREAD
Virginia Is Spending Large SUM and
~ Plans Greater Things In Early
- Futurc-Gcorgia and Onto Lead in
Number of Projects.

Number of Projects.
Great sums OF money will be spent
in the South this year and i'll the next
few years for the building of modern
highways. Texas leads with AN am
- Eitions program for spending s."o'ooo.
. 600 and other southern States are not
far behind.
BY an overwh Ginning majority Dallas
County. TeN2s. has voted 10 issue road
cvrding 10 the plan submitted TO the
peopel il is proposed to provide com
plete belt line around the county: WIN
dozen roodS radiatinS from Dallas
to all sections and in addition six
intermediate roads connecting the
radial highways.
mitted showed the location OF each
road. it's construction. location OF Gull
ycrts and approaches the cost of each
Bection and OF the improvements upon
No less than 3a2 miles OF road are
provided for. and III addition about 100
miles. of feeder roads will be improved
by the decrease in maintenance ex-
pense. Fedora! aid amounting TO $250.
GOO was allowed TO Dallas County. and
large number OF army motor trucks
Will be assigned TO assist in the work
OF building the roads.
Dniins Issue Is GrentcSt Ever.
This Dallas bond issue WAS by far
the largest amount ever submitted in
any county in Texas. and it is ono of
the largest voted anywhere in the
country The result OF the vote was
looked for with great interest by Texas
people. and the big majority by which
the proposal carried is expected TO
have favorable influence IN the State
election in November on an issue Of
s'S;0ooooo for road construction
,o madnY n,S SGuH itlS,s near ear Dallas have
Collins county voted s3ooo. 900: Hunt.
:2eoo,Seo; Denton. sLs5o.ooo; Titus
we'll. 100000 aud Ems. s25o.cVo Tar Tar.
rant County will soon vote on a pro.
posed issue of sS5ooooo and there are
severa other counties which have
i, is estimated by the State highway
one!neers that more than 10000 900
worth 81 roads are now under construc.
divisions of counties are OF wcSEiy
occurrence. and the agitation for sood
he1ieye Is 80 genera that enthusiasts
Texas viii soon be built ana main.
tanned in high state or uscfulnoss
tbnr PIeSsenia'iNa G. .. l-aney. the au-
amendment. which the peopIe va" VII; " Wn,a
On nsNi November. estimates ;h.t s2oo
Svg'puv VIII be available for road con.
S tIGS''0n IN Ne State in the next tive
ready voted or now Rave pr,,diny ~
SSohoS amounting u>S2S.616 600. and Ia
safe Nil receive Federal aid monnv
WIN approximately $4,000 600 sIIo,...i
i3F ths next three years. o''ca
Tells of Work in yirrini.
Tc?eihs 70 safe Highway com.
S ifiSxion rn, TeorGe =. Coleman. OF Viz.
are either undes coStrsct or 49,, sS.i"e, egg
feyed IN this State This hud1s, or
s;Gne;,o5 1osd mnintenalee and recon.
struc;ion and the work Of co5y yoh-
fon. J, Is more than double any pray
i toqy a az ,ota tor roads in the his
b. Federal, state. COUNTY sns n named
tuHos. and Is exclusive OF what CON-
re taes may spend on roads not enibr.cad
In addition 10 lie 5nf;;,, ~
sssn go Fed Hg;iine4 'nsrS wi Dc g.
TO meet The extent 0 Which, irty:yid!
ia! counties can raise funds 10 rn,.a,
IN ins 1eQuirements unde- the Federal
Records in the o~ica Of StsVe iii-b-
Say C9mn' :ssioner Keller, of Alabama,
49, go" maj nearly every county in the
a!d IN IN" building % roads and =
,, Hp'u,s iincTsas!ng number have taken
Up |Ae Fedora! ala proposition only
o! Federal aid. A large amour, n,
t .ia "ofK Is under way or planned in
=; y oaina and the YEAR viii see a large
ways Of thc State. The board OF -
nue. OF jefferson County Ala, is con.
sloerins fhc construction OF twentv
70 thirty miles OF permanent paved
nigh"aY this year. The road will have
u concrete bass, with brick asphai, or
a anne, ;;9aGG b@n .:Ehe county nov has
fund, and ex6tcis to reeve a. ' rnnGe
more Staie and Federal aid the dues.
lion OF issuing COUNTY bond. ia iha
cred.
Hn. Large sum Available.
Washington county. Miss. now has
available moro than s. 600. 900 Tor biph.
way improvemcn,. There IL An ,insw
nended balance OF about $500. 900 from
4 bond Issue OF SSj0.00o voted three
EtafS ago. while ii Was recently de-
cictd by large majority at special
e,eGtion TO issue an additional amount
OF sl,25O.oo0 for road building.
sussex County. Del. viii! issue bonds
10 the amount OF 5000 10 cons,ruct
4 concrete road across the county. from
i.ewcs and Rehoboth Beach TO the
Maryland line
stat. Highway Commissioner rhoun.
son, Of New Jersey. mas suh,nittccd 10
the safe comm ission 4 tentative con
the building o: sixty-one miles Of
state highways al an estimated cosi
Of '4.l07,sss. with $4,000 addi,ional
for rights OF way. The cons,ructjon
WORK Planned for the present season
including both the 1918 ana 1919 pro.
grams. amounts 10 100 miles Com
Inisslohef THOMPSON regards the es;i-
mates AS conservative. and that they
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