The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-10-31
DEPARTMENT GIVES
NO. "a SQUARE DEAL
County, Says Board of Trade Secre-
tary, Should Give New Plan
Full Consideration

Secretary Chazal of the Board OF |
Trade, who returned Saturday after
noon from a trip to White Springs
and Tallahassee in the interest OF /
state road No. 2, says that Marion |
county should lose no time in giving /
the fullest consideration to the new /
plan of the state road department to |
complete road No. thu this county. |
The secretary says he has not seen a |
copy of the resolution adopted by the |
road department, as he left Tallahas-
see before the action was taken, but
that if the information he has is cor
rect the new proposit on for this
county is far better than that upon
which Marion voted her bonds. Under
the new plan, as the secretary under
stands it, the county money available
for road No. would be spent as far
as it will go and the state will then
complete the road thru the county.
There are about 46 miles of road
No. 2 in this county. # the cost of
construction under state and federal
specifications should amount to $780,
600 mile.it would cost about $920,000
to build the road, Mr.. Chazal says,
and the county has available for No.
2 less than half this amount. The
cost of the road from Lake City to
the Columbia county line for which
the contract has been let by the road
department will be around $4,000 a
mile. Marion county with material
available right at hand should be able
to build a road for much less than
other counties If the road can be
built in this county for less than
S20. 900 a mile the state would still
have to put up large part of the
cost of the same and IN addition to
this the state in taking over the road
will have to maintain it in accordance
with federal requirements. Mr.. Cha
zal thinks that if this is the case the
county has everything TO gain and
nothing to lose and should accept the
states proposition. Road No. 5, he
says, should of course have its pro-
portionate share of the county bond
money.
The secretary attended the good
roads meeting at White Springs on
Wednesday and while there had an
opportunity to see the road work be-
ing done in Hamilton county by the
state road department. He says that
the state has done some excellent
work in that county, though the road
is not vet completed, and that the
bridge and culvert construction Is
especially fine From White Springs
the secretary went to Tallahassee
with a committee to appear before
the road department in behalf Of roac
No. 2. The committee presented
petition asking for the early compile
ton of road No. 2 through Hamilton
Columbia, Alachua and Marion coun
ties, in which there is money nov
available, for concentration of tn
road work in the state on roads Nos
2. 1 and 4, and requesting that tn
road department keep the peopl
posted on its activities. Judge Phil
lips read to the committee state
ment in regard to the road situation
which he had already prepared an
which has since been given to tn
press and published. The petitio
presented by the committee was wit
some changes afterwards made tn
same as published in the Times-Unio
of Wednesday.
Mr.. Chazal thinks that the roa
department is convinced of the IN
portance of road No. 2. He says ths
the federal government is handlln
the stretch of this road thru Hamilto
county as an interstate highway, ar
that the state, according to stat
ment made by Judge Phillips, w
have to maintain the highway throus
Hamilton county whether it wishes
or not. The secretary thinks tn
road No. 2 viii eventually be a n
tioual highway.