Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-07-23
MEETS HIGHWAY COMMISSION
Judge S, N Smith Goes to Jasper, Ma
rion County About Roads,

/ Last week Judge S. N. Smith went
| to Jasper, Marion county, to meet the
| State Highway Commissioners in the
| interets of the roads of this county.
| The commissioners assured Judge
Smith that this county would get at
least one road grader, several trucks
and scrapers from the road machinery
that the government will award to this
state in the distribution of the 40 mill
| lions of road machinery used in France
during the war and now being brought
home.
the commissioners have mad COM
petent engineer go over the road from
Crossville to Jamestown and he has de-
cided that 500, 900 will surface and
widen the grade now built from Cross
Vile to the Fentress county line, dis
lance of sixteen ana one-half miles. q
The state commissioners propose to
furnish $50, 600 of the amount provided
this county will furnish $50, 700 or IN
other words, the state will put up two
dollars for every dollar the county puts
up. 1t is also understood that the
state will take over the upkeep Oh
the road and the county will be re-
Iieved of that burden in the future.
It is the purpose of Judge Smith TO
secure from the state highway COM
missioners a contract setting out the
conditions as stated above and also
that the road will be surfaced IN
coed ard durable manner for the pro-
oCsed 500, 900 of which amount this
cauoty is to furnish only $50, 900. The
matter will then probably be pre-
lseated ia the court for action.
I Ihe state commissioners also pro-
ipose to build the 20 miles Of road from
Crossville to Herbert Domain at the
lexpense of the state and without aid
frcgn the county. The state Will also
take over the upkeep expense OF this
section of the through road.
Fentress county has already con-
tracted for the budding of we'll sur
faced road from jamestown to the
Cumperland county line, but the higa.!
way commission will only undertake
to build that section on condition that
Cumberland county will furnish the
necessary $50, 900 for building the road
from the Cumberland and Fentress
county line to Erossville. In other
words, the state highway commission
| mill in hu;ld,pcr
tons of roads that have no connecting
outlet, and then only on through lines
of road
The feature that appeals most
strongly to those who hav given the
proposed scheme any thought is the
fact that the state will take over the
upkeep expense of the road after it is
built. Every person realizes that up
keep is far more expensive in the end
than construction an to have the state
assume that means to relieve the
county of heavy expense.
WORKING ON DIXIE.
Work is now under way on the Dixie
Highway at practically every broken
line between Nashville and Chatta-
nooga and that arm of the Dixie High
way promises to be fully completed
this summer and tall.
MAY CALL COURT IN SESSION.
Judge Smith may call the county
court in extra session at an early date
tn consider this road ,Iattpr alOpu
with the tax levy matter. AS the
tag levy is now fixed by the court,
Judge Smith thinks it probably that
the court has overstepped the law
and he may have to call the court in
extra session to adjust the error. Judge
Smith is not yet certain if the action
Of the court at its session lat week
is valid or not and he may ha : to ap-
peal to the Attorney of the
state for information.