The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-01
ROAD OFFICE IS
DElUGEO BY OFFERS
TO HELP FIX ROADS
SUPERINTENDENT BUTLER SAYS
HE is REALIZING WHAT MAU-
RY FOUNTAINS ARE.
ENTHUSIASM IS EXTENDING
Many Sections Offering to Furnish
Teams and Hands to Improve Roads
in Addition to Money Coming From
tho County. ... .y

A veritable wave of good roads en-.
thusiasm is sweeping the county, ac-
cording to information given out by
County Road Superintendent Frank A.
Butler, who told The Herald this
morning that his Office is being liter
ally swamped with offers of co-opera-
ton in the reconstruction and mainte-
nance of the public roads.
when we failed to secure bids for
contracts and there was general air
of Indifference early in the summer
toward the work to be undertaken by
the road commission, must confess
that the situation was rather gloomy"
said Mr.. Butler this morning. "But
recently there has been such re-
awakening of interest and so many
earnest offers Of cooperation to help
us, he continued, that am realizing
fully what it means to be a citizen of
Maury county, where the people are
public spirited and willing to do their
part on any good movement"
Speaking of the numerous offers of
cooperation that have been made, Mr..
Butler mentioned the following:
On a three or four mile stretch of
the Jeff Branch road in the Fourth
district the people offered to meet the
highway commission dollar for dollar.
This proposition was accepted, but
the commission was unable to meet
reverse proposition from the same
people to meet them dollar for
dollar because they raised more mon
ey than could be apportioned to that
road from the county funds.
On the far end of the Bear creek
road liberal offers have been made.
Headed by Willard Curtis, the peo-
pie residing on the roal in his COM
munity have offered to give their time
and teams whenever the road super
intendent is ready to begin work
there.
On the Culleoka pike out of Colum-
bia the people have said to the road
commission, "Come on with the stone
and gravel and we will help you put it
on the road and give you our time and
teams"
Down in the First district the stand
ing proposition to haul gravel on the
Santa Fe pike as long as the road
commission will load the wagons and
spread it on the road has been
renewed The people of that
section have set no limit to the
mileage or the amount of gravel to be
hauled.
Joe Chapman has offered the use
of the Armour fertilizer trucks for
hauling crushed stone on the Will
Transport pike as far as the road COM
mission will go and as much as the
commission will have crushed.
On three mile stretch of road be-
tween Mt. Pleasant and Hampshire an
offer was made to complete the road
without cost to the county after 800
is appropriated to that road.
Superintendent Butler now has
force of men working on the Pulaski
pike. The road is being scarified and
the surface smoothed. This is work
of temporary nature as the Pulaski
pike is one of the sections of the per
manent highway to be constructed by
the state and county later.
Every effort is being made to push
the road work as rapidly as possible
with the limited supply of labor Quite
naturally those sections that offer the
greatest assistance and encourage
ment will be the ones that will be
taken up first.