St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1919-06-28
Loan Asked by Buie Will
Be Returned Within
One Year.
COMMISSION APPROVES
WITH STRONG PROVISO
Board Will Consider Mat
ter and. Report at It's
Next Meeting.
Coyington, La, June "a, 1919.

The Police Jury met on the above
date to discuss the building of the
Chef Menteur road to the Mississippi
line. and the following members
were present: Theodore Dendingre,
ward /; H. n. Fendlason, ward 2;
E.J. Domergue, ward J. NJ. Smith,
ward A. S. R. CoWart, ward D;
Fletcher Crawford, ward 6; E. +.
Robert, ward 8; J B. Howe, ward g..
Absent: W. H. Davis, ward Z; the
10th ward having no member since
the resignation of Robert Abney.
The meeting opened with a talk
by Mr.. Duncan Buie, State Highway
Engineer, asking for an advance OF
s250,O0O from the $750,000 bond
issue recently voted by St. Tammany
parish (for parish roads, sDe turned
over to the State Highway Engineer
for use on the Chef Menteur road.
After much discussion the members
of the Good Roads Commission were
asked by the chairman of the Police
Jury to go into executive session and
report on the matter. After being
out some time they brought in the
following recommendation:
To the Honorable Police Jury OF st.
Tammany Parish, Covington, La.
Gentlemen: We recommend that
you advance to the state highway
engineer $250,000 for use in con-
struction of the Chef Menteur state
highway to the Louisiana-Missis
state line at, or near, LOgtOWn, Miss,
the money so advanced to come out
of the funds realized from the sale
of bonds recently voted by st. Tam
many parish for constructing and
surfacing of roads in that parish,
provided:
First-That assurance, positive
and satisfactory to you, is given That
the amount will be returned to the
st Tammany road fund within twelve
months.
Second-That assurance, positive
and satisfactory to you, is given that
the link of this state highway from
New Orleans to point on the Loulsl-
ana-Mississippi state line at, or near,
LogtoWn, Miss, including all neces-
sary bridges therefor, is fully and
properly completed, as provided in
Act No. 18 of the special session OF
the legislature of 1918, before any
part of the fund established by this
act, is used in construction or the
link from New Orleans to Ham
mond, La.
Third-That assurance, positive
and satisfactory to you, is given that
the state highway engineer Will use
every effort to obtain government
aid to the greatest possible evtent,
for the road from New Orleans to
the Mississippi line, at, or near, Log
town, Miss, at the earliest practl-
cable date. That he will use the
first $25O,000 obtained from this
source to reimburse the st. ram
many parish road fund, just as soon
as it is received from the govern
ment. even though it be received in
less than one year. Further, that
he will turn over to st. Tammany
parish all government aid he may be
able to secure for this road, no mat
ter how much it may exceed $250,00'
Further, that he will make every ef-
fort to obtain as much government
aid as possible for any and all other
roads in St Tammany parish, ana
will promptly turn over to the st.
Tammany parish road fund all money
so obtained, guaranteeing that the
: amount will not be less than $780,
10000.
In submitting the foregoing rec
concentrations we are prompted by
desire to see ST. Tammany parish do
anything it possibly can, in keeping
with safe and, sane business methods,
that will afford opportunity for this
work to go ahead, and at the same
time safeguard the interests OF the
taxpayers of this parish.
We believe that the Chef Menteur
road from New Orleans to the Lou
isiana-M Mississippi line should be
built Immediately, and that, with the
funds in hand, it could be completed
In less than one year. If this should
be done, there ought not to be any
trouble in conforming to the terms
OF the pr0visO on which this recon-
mendation is predica,ed.
There is not any doubt in our
minds that this is one of the most
important links in the system of Lou
lsiana state highways nov con-
templated, especially to the City of
New Orleans, whose intere is are
paramount, and most especially so,
as the Parish OF Orleans is providing
most of the money that goes into the
1und resulting from Act IS.
The building Of this link opens to
New Orleans, trade and travel to and
from two important national high
Ways-that is, the Jackson National
hlghway, running north through
mississippi, paralleling the New Or
leans & Northeastern Railroad, and
the Spanish Trail National Highway,
running east and west along the
mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coasts
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