The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-05-30
TAXPAYERS FAVOR
TWO FOR ONE OFFER
FROM ". P. MOORE
STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERN.
MENTs TO COOPERATE WITH
COUNTY ON ROADS.
BUILD PERMANENT HIGHWAYS
Representative Citizens to Ask coun-
ty Court to Provide MONEY for Coun-
TVS Part Of Road to Be Maintained
BY State.

sion that IL Maury county would pro-
vide for one-third of the cost of con-
struction of a system of permanent
highways from the Williamson county
line to Columbia and from Columbia to
Mt. Pleasant and to the Giles county
line, total of about AZ miles, the
state and federal highway depart
ments would each provide one-third
OF the cost and the state would as
sumo the permanent maintenance of
the system, including bridges, a CON
ference of representative citizens and
taxpayers of the county Monday night
voted unanimously in favor of the ac-
ceptance OF the proposition and ap.
pointed a committee to convene the
county court and request that BODY
to exrcise its powers to issue bonds
sufficient to meet the county part OF
the expense.
AS ihOtlhS was uclu All TIE
National Bank building and was pre-
sided over by W. M. Tolley with G. T.
Hughes, Jr., as secretary. The con-
ference was called hurriedly when
Mr.. Moore arrived here from Pulaski
where he attended a special session
OF the Giles county court, by whom a
similar proposition from that county
was accepted. Notwithstanding the
torrential rain last night more than
30 men, including representatives
from the Third, Fourth, Sixth, Sew
enth and Ninth districts were present
and after discussion of the PROPOSE
ton there was unanimous vote for
the appointment of a committee to
convene the county court and work
for the issuance of sufficient bonds to
pay the county's one-third of the cost.
The following committee was appoint
ed; D. w Shofner, J. J. Gray, William
Anderson, ]. H. Dining, R. L. Hays,
w. P. Ridley, Will Cheairs, with w.
M. FOLEY ex-of1icio member. Squire
Hugh Lee eWbster and J. H. Dinning
wre requested to draft the~call for a
special session Of the county court,
which will be signed by the requisite
number of members Immediately.
Mr.. Moore in presentig the propo-
sition said that the time has come
when the road question is too big
for consideration in terms of coun-
ties, communities and states, that it is
a national question and for that rea.
son the federal government is each
year making larger appropriations for
the construction of national systems
of highways. He said that in the
Tennessee system of highways Column
bia is fortunately situated upon a sec
ton of road that he believed to be the
most important east of the Mississippi
river, a section that joins the trunk
system of the north with those of the
south. He illustrated his meaning
by comparing this section with the
small aperture of an hour glass
through which the sand of each com.
partment must pass, saying that in
the winter the tourist traffic of the
north would pass through this city go
ing south and in the early summer the
traffic would be reversed.
Because of the Importance of this
section it is one of the first to be des-
ignated by the state highway depart
ment for aid. 1t will form a section
Of three state and national Highways
the Bee Lint Highway from Nashville
to Pulaski, the Jackson Highway
from Nashville to Mt. Pleasant and
the Memphis-to-B Bristol Highway from
Nashville to Mt Pleasant. IL is pro-
posed by the state to construct from
the Kentucky to the Alabama lines
permanent asphaltic highway tina:
will bear the heaviest traffic. The
state will have nothing to do with a
road that is not of permanent con-
struction. He estiamted the cost of
such road at $4,000 a mile, includ-
ing bridges and culverts. This esti
mae, he said was a maximum esti-
mate of the cost. The hard surface
of the road will be 20 feet wide for
most of the distance. The cost of
maintenance in the future will be
borne by the state, thus relieving the
county of the upkeep expense of 43
miles of heavily used road. The cost
of construction to the county would be
one-third. or $4,000 mile.
Mr.. Moore said that Giles county
had already accepted the proposition
Lawrence county is clamoring for an
opportunity to accept it and has offered
TO pay half the cost, Williamson coun-
ty will accept it and in other Sec
tfons of the state, especially in East
Tennessee. counties are besieging the
state highway departm ent to be in