New Iberia enterprise and independent observer., 1919-04-12

kOAOS.
Work on the model highway re-
tween New Iberia and our sister
town Of Jeanerette is progressing
slowly under the supervi-
sion Of the engineers OF the State
Highway Department. Engineer
Ross is looking after interests OF
the Parish and State, while the
contractors are doing their level
best to rl.sh the material to make
an early start. In few days the
Police Jury will be made cognlzant
whether the bonds sold are
acceptable to the bond buyers. 1t
is more than probable there will
be no trouble along these lines
and once the money is in the
hands of the Parish Treasurer,
these improvements will also be
under full headway in the Fourth,
Seventh and Sixth Wards. This
week the $4,000 bonds Of the City
voted during 1917 was sold and
q great portion Of the funds will
be spent on roads leading into
New Iberia in the Sixth Ward. 1t
will be remembered these taxes
were levied for general improve
ments. a proviso being made in
the call that thirty or more thou
sand dollars would be expended
outside Of the City limits.
In our next number very prob
ably elections will be called for
the levying of small taxes in the
Fifth, Third Eighth and First
Wards Of the Perish and there IS
ITO doubt the residents Of thc'a
Wards will also give their un,
qualified sanction to these coil
tcmplated model highways OF the
day they are permitted to pass
upon them. This is the concerted
opinion of all whom we have been
able to get in touch from those see
tions Of the Parish. Our people
have at last realized that a small
tax for model gravel highways
which they can use at all seasons
of the year is far cheaper than a
heavy tax and no roads fit to use
They are one and all tined Of the
old dirt roads that go to pieces
after every rain. Thousands o.
dollars have literally been squall'
dereil in attempts to give the tax.
! PAYERS roads when they need
them, m fact iberia Parish like
many others has almost been bank.
rupted trying to Keep up roads
leading to the Parish seat, and yet
II was, impossible to keep them
free Of holes and quagmires des'
pite this great expense. With
good gravel roads and proper
drainage we then can lay claims
to having community fit to live
We win then be on a parity with
All the more advanced parishes Of
the St4be. With our rich alluvial
lands, iberia Parish should bloom
IKE : rose. There will be more
demand for our lands and aside
from that, those who now reside
in the rural districts will not b
90 APT to give up their farms t.
move into town. Farm life car
only be made attractive through
easy access. With good schools
and good highways every acre o.
land should rapidly enhance il
value and soon our people will D.
able to boost Of both.
By the end Of the year nine
teen hundred and nineteen almos'
every nook and corner Of the Par
ish should have a model grave
highway.
n Is high time now for the bus.
iness men and property owners Of
New iberia to get together and
revive our Chamber Of Commerce
If for no other purpose than t.
commence an advertising cam
paign to make known to the out.
side world what Iberia Parish and
New iberia has to offer the home
seeker and capitalist. Iberia car
be made the garden spot Of the
, world If only our own citizens
would interest themselves in try.
ing to get it before the people who
ore seeking homes in the South,