The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-07-31
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HIGHWAY HAS BEGUN
BY the Secretary

10y bAAE RNGANlctAS
After several years Of waiting,
work has actually begun on the jeff
Davis Highway. Mr.. Cruise, chief
Of the State Highway Engineers for
West Tennessee, arrived in Covington
Monday and began work Tuesday
morning at Hatchie river and will
work toward Shelby county. 1t will
require perhaps two months for the
engineers to complete their work, af-
ter which the plans will 60 to Nash
vile and Washington for approval
and then the work of building can
begin. Mr., Cruise tells us that he
sees no reason why the work Of grad
ling should not begin this fallandcon-
tinue through the winter when the
weather will permit.
The road viii likely follow pretty
closeto the present route with the
exception Of the cutting off of sharp
angles and some unnecessary grades.
The road will have to be located in
such a way as to meet the approval
of the government, from which source
large percent of the money comes.
This road is being built for the use
of the coming generations Of Upton
countians, and it would be foolish
to give it any but the best location
and the most permanent drainage.
The eulverts and bridges will likely
be built of concrete or other perma-
nent material When this road is
finished we believe that our people
will be willing and ready to take up
the building of other main roads and
will not be willing to stop till every
community center is made accessible
to a first-class road. A few people
may be worried about what future
generations will think Of our roads.
but if we could be instrumental in
getting a first-class system of high
ways for Upton county we would
take our chances Of being called
blessed by the future Tiptonian.
We have not yet learned when
work will begin on our part of the
Memphis-to-Bristol highway, but we
are going after that matter right
away. Haywood county, we under
stand, has not yet acted on the mat
ter of furnishing its share of the
money to get the road through that
county, but we hope that will be
done as soon as possible and that
work can begin right away.
Tn view of the high cost of living
and the rising nrices in nearly every
article of food, the National War Gar
den Commissioners insisting that the
people have summer and fall gardens
this year, and can and preserve the
products Of these gardens for winter
use. They point out that nearly ev-
cry vegetable grown in the spring
garden can also be grown in the fall
garden, and that the canning and
preserving can be done when the
weather is cooler. This is, perhaps,
the surest way to defeat the men who
are trying to lnonopolize foods in the
great cold storage plants of the coun-
try.
The Business Mems Club is inter
esting itself in Upton county roads
as a whole and does not expect to
stop until every community center
in the county is reached by first
class road unless the people lose in
terest and show that they do not
want the work to continue.
Complaints have reached the road
commission about lumber belonging
to the county being stolen from along
the roads. Lumber is very expensive,
and the superintendent and commits
sioners are making every effort to
save all lumber belonging to the
county, and thus save the peoples
money. Contractors have been or
dered to use all lumber taken up from
for culverts and small
bridges. They have been asked to
save all old lumber taken out of
bridges, both large and small, to be
used in case causeways are needed
next winter. Now, it sometimes hap
pens that when lumber is taken out
Of causeway or bridge and laid on
the roadside until the next day to
be hauled away, it disappears that
same night. Stealing the county's
lumber is about the same thing ac-
cording to a correct moral code as
from any individual, and if
the stealer is caught it will draw about
the same penalty, Let it alone.