St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1920-05-15
Asks That Copies of Letters
Written to Police Jury
Be Published.
LETTERS WRITTEN
MARCH, APRIL, MAY
Wants Public To Clearly
Understand Position of
the Commission.
Covington, La, May IL, 1872,

Covington, La, May II, 1920.
Editor st. Tammany Farmer:
Dear Sir:-In order that the pub
| lie may clearly understand the posi-
ton in which the Good Roads Com
mission has been placed by resolu
tion adopted recently by the Police
Jury, as published in The St. Tam
many Farmer, the Commission will
thank you to publish the letters writ
ten by the Commission to the Police
Jury on this subject, copies of which
are attached hereto.
Yours very truly,
F. w. FATHEREE,
Secretary.
File 25.
Covington, La, March 20, 1920.
To the Honorable President AID
Members of Police Jury, St. Tam
many Parish, Covington, La.
Gentlemen - This Commission
feels that it is in duty bound to
advise your honorable body that it
will be impossible for the Commis-
sion to complete the program of road
building in this parish as outlinet
by you with the funds that have been
provided, and that it will be neces-
sary to eliminate from the list made
up by you some of the roads named
in that list.
Inasmuch as this list was original
ly initiated by your body it will be
necessary for the elimination to be
also made by you.
You VIII please, therefore, consid-
er the matter at once and by proper
resolution passed at your next meet
ing designate to the Commission the
roads which shall be eliminated from
your program.
Yours truly,
F. w. FATHEREE,
Secretary.
File 25.
Covington, La, April 10, 1920.
To the Honorable President and
Members of Police Jury, St. Tam
many Parish, CoVington, La.
Gentlemen: - Supplementing our
letter of March 29th, in which we
the necessity for elimina- |
tion of some of the roads to be built |
by this Commission from the list as |
made up by you:
For your full information we en-
close herewith statement showing
the following:
(a)-Roads already completed
and cost Of same.
(b)-Roads under contract and |
amount of contracts.
(c)-Roads advertised for con-
tract and the estimated cost of same
Also, showing in the case of roads |
to be surfaced, the kind of surfaeing |
material it Is expected to be used.
You will notice that the total cost |
Of the roads that have been built,
added to those under construction
and those which are to be built as
per your original list, aggregates
whereas the tota'
fund originally placed at the disposal
If this Commission Is only S75O,O00,
and out of this fund it must be borne
n mind that all operating expenses
connected with the doing of this
work must also be paid.
In view of the figures as shown
3y this statement it seems that the
elimination of some of these roads
s an absolute necessity and this is
question we ask you to decide.
Also, in connection with the fore
,oing, we would like specific instruc-
ions from the Police Jury as to what
lction was intended by your body
n naming roads such as the La
,ombe to Lake Road, and the Ro-
,ert Road?
In the case of the first road from
4acombe to Lake, it would seem that
his VIII be a very expensive piece
# road to build and that there are
-ery few people along the line OF
uch a road to be accommodated.
,ut we ask for specific instructions
or the reason that citizens Of La
ombe are now insisting that the
Commission build the road at onco.
In the case Of the Robert Road, it
5 being insisted that the Police Jury
Intended that this road should be
Lard surfaced, but there Is nothing
n the program, as we construe it,
this character OF work
O be odne.
Yours truly,
r. TAMMANY PARISH GOOD
ROADS COMMISSION,