The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-05
Communication

Editor Of The Banner
1t has been suggested that the
County bond itself for $350,000, of
which $l5O,O0G should be used for
schools, $4,000 for bridge at
Cambridge and the remainder $780,
900 for road building.
Is the last amount enough to Sc
cure for the county all possible state
and Federal road money? The main
she'll roads in the county are wreck
ed and the general feeling seems to
be that they :EOuld be rebuilt as
permanent stone roads and that any
other course will he a waste OF
money. Hence we need to get all
possible State and Federal money.
II would be helpful for some one
familiar with the matter to explain
simply through your paper the ex-
tent of these outside funds, and when
they become available. Also peo-
pie are asking the conditions under
which a Stale road may be built
when residents contribute toward it.
Did not the Board of Trade APP
point a committee some months ago
to study the road question? Ger
tainly a most interesting letter ap-
peared in the Banner at the time.
Lately a number of interesting and
interested letters have been print
ed on the subject. Why not organ
ize the interest in good roads and
make it a steady continuous effort?
Possibly the Board of Trade could
take the lead and have cooperation
with it a committee or Organization
in each district.
Where there are Gransex ~
would doubtless name committees.
The pad road section however, are
the ones that have the least organ
iZation of any kind and need the
most help. ,The County officials
would doubtless welcome such CO
operation; it certainly would be
helpful in local repair work in get
ting labor and material at fair
prices.
The County war work proved that
cooperation between county. town
and districts could organize and
carry through any task. Why NOT
apply in peace what we learned in
war?
The best business man in town
and throughout the county knows
that prosperity and growth for all
depend upon passabIe roads through
the county.
The road from Blackwater Bridge
through Golden Hill to Hoopers Is
land once a good shell road to town
is gone. 1t is hard to tell it ever
vas a shell road. The steady line of
trucks from town and up has stop
ped. Our county towns had been
oil
line, -four. fead, furniture, ice. ice
cream, aroe 1ries-even the doctor
and undertaken usually comes from
town, but it has all practically stop
ned this winter because our road IS
gone. The mail carriers struggling
along with mail matter for five
hundred people around Golden Hill
and for three times that number on
the Island. has been unable to give
usual service. Two schools have
been closed part of the time because
teachers and children could not get
over the roads. We hear that
Shorter's wharf road is in much the
same condition. We know that
from Golden Hill to Lakesville, also
a. mail route. it is worse; while the
road from TavlOr's Island to Cold
en- Hill. q road considered by many
business men the natural trucking
route from Cambridge to the Island
is practically unpassable, for vehicles
of any kind. With some straighten-
ing ten miles of stone road would
connect Hoopers Island with the
State Road at Taylors Island.
i We feel that roads should be the
. first consideration at this time and
we request thai a business mems
committee from Cambridge together
with all three OF our commissioners
make an immediate inspection of our
roads. (Signed) X