The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-05-25
BRIDGES And
ROADS TALKOF
COMMISSIONERS
DIPPING or CATTLE AND LIVE.
STOCK INDUSTRY ALSO WERE
DISCUSSED At SOME LENGTH.

Bridge building and road improve
ment held the center OF the stage at
the regular meeting Of the board of
county commissioners yesterday morn
ing, and the commissioners expressed
a very determined spirit to let moth
ing for a single day interrupt the va
rious projects now in hand or in
prospect.
A committee was appointed to pro-
coed Immediately to secure plans and
specifications on the five permanent
bridges contemplated in the act of the
legislature granting the issuance of
$3.50. 900 worth of warrants; so that as
soon as the legislation is signed by the
governor and the thirty days required
by law for advertising for bids have
passed, the board will be ready to be-
gin at once to apply the granted
money to the improvements. The
committee was also authorized to-
make full investigation and recon-
mend some competent man to the
board for the position Of county en-
gineer of concrete bridge work. Com
missioner Hardy expressed the opinion
that with all the work in process now
it would be a positive economy for
the county to engage a first class en-
gineer and provide him an office in
the court house. Commissioners
Hardy, Candy and Soderlind constitute
the committee.
A committee of citizens, headed by
W. L. Meyer, appeared before the
board and pressed the matter of inn
proving the road between Millview
and Lillian. An offer of a loan to
the board. made through J. S. Reese.
in the amount of $4,000. made posi-
BILE the decision to begin the improve
ment as soon as 1t can be reached by
the road gangs. It was urged that
this road would benefit Pensacola more
perhaps than any other that could be
worked at this time. divertins trade
here which would otherwise go across
the Alabama line.
The advisabiilty of building bridges
with concrete piers and steel spans
in preference to solid concrete was
discussed, and the fact developed that
the steel span bridge is cheaper, more
easily repaired and II well painted
twice a year, will last for more than
a generation. The board decided to
investigate the matter further.
A resolution was passed calling on
DR.. Brown. overseer of the dipping
with detailed information as to who
and how many cattle have been dip
ped. This data will give a definite
idea OF the present wealth of Escambia
county in livestock.
Another resolution which passed
provides that owners Of hogs which
die of cholera must see to it that
the carcasses are completely burned
SO as to prevent spread of the dis
lease by contamination. The commits
lsioners wished the fact strongly i'm
pressed on owners of hogs that in
view of what the state Is doing in sup
| plying vaccine serum and what thG
county is doing in keeping a demon
stration agent in the field to oversees
the application of the serum, it IS
highly essential that owners cooperate
in their own interest and the public
interest as well. by faithfully cremat-
ing hogs lost by cholera. The posi-
lbilities of moneymaking in the hog
Industry are now SO great it was said
that official aid should be much ap-
lpreciated.
The county clerk was directed to
secure a list of all owners of real es.
tate abutting on the county concrete
lroad between Bayou Chico and Bayou
Grande, the U. S.road leading to The
bridge across Bayou Grande, and no.
/ tify them that the road is eighty feet
wide and that they must at once move
hack their fences from land now tres
passed.
BY formal vote the commissioners
authorized Farm Demonstration Agent
Burnett to attend. at county expense
1.-THE state Swine Growers Association
meeting at ST. Augustine. June 4 ant
s, as he will be able to gather infor-
lmation there which Will be Of grea.
value to Escambia county hog raisers
County Attorney Reese reported thai
/ the commissioners have exactly the
same rights possessed by the state
board to shorten the terms Of conyicts
for good behavior. and Commissions
lMccurdy stated that he has two ex-
ceptionally good men who viii soor
Ebe entitled to the favor and will re-
lceive it as an encouragement to good
lcitizenship.