The Pulaskian., 1921-06-02
PULASKI COUNTY ROADS
The Pea Ridge Pod Man Investigates Pulaski Cons New Road Method ana oees and Learns Many Things Which Will Prove
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they have no right to order.
 At the foot of Spring street on Gar. land avenue, which was originally Water street, is very substantial brick garage and stockade. It ad. joins the jail and was erected last year under the administration of Judge Miles and Mir. McCook. the present county superintendent of roads and bridges.
 It is we'll for me to note here that in all that 1 say about county affairs nothing should be taken as reflecting on Judge Lee Miles. When Judge Miles took charge of his office he found only 75 cents, I believe it was, in the treasury. He borrowed of the city banks a sufficient amount to run him until the first of July, when the new taxes would be paid in, but when they were paid in to him by the sheriff all was in scrip but about SIS. He had to borrow of the banks again sufficient to run him until the taxes came in for his second years administration, but when he went out of office he turned the county over to Judge Mover free of debt, having run 1t during his two years administration on one years income and that during the trying and most expensive time of the great world war. To much credit cannot be giv- en Judge Miles for his excellent finaneiering.
 With no money to his credit ex- cept what he receives for his current term of office Judge Mover is mak- ing a wonderful showing, but what could he do If he had the million or so, which has been almost wasted by the road commissioners during the past year?
 In North Little Rock the Arkansas and Missouri Railway parallels the North Little Rock and Galloway highway for three miles, being only 300 feet from it all this distance. The cost of these three extra miles was $l96,000 The three-mill tax brings into the road fund $l68,00O, but $150,000 of that for this year goes to pay debts and next year the last legislature appropriated $68,000 of 1t to Little Rock for her streets. By the reports in the daily press the work done on the Missouri and North Arkansas Highway already amounts to over $700,000. That is only one road, while money has been spent lavishly in other districts.
 Judge Mover showed me the excel lent work done on the Eighteenth street, North Little Rock, which ex- tends from the foot of the Ft. Logan H. Roots hill to the Galloway high way. This road has been put in first class shape. The next road we went over was the Conway road and the Marche triangle. This work is ex- ceptionally we'll done, It is very dusty now, but all it needs is good rain and dragging. The county owns two large drags, which complete the road with one dragging one way. There is a drag on each side with connecting one in the center. This is drawn by one of the large tractors. The ten-ton Holt with a convict crew in charge of R. E. Jones, said to be their best outfit, was doing the work on this road, or rather they had just finished it and gone to work on the Clinton road. The county has five tractors and there is crew of con- victs for each.
 A landslide developed on the Con- way road just beyond, MT. Hughes
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