The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1922-07-06
Tishomingo County Has Fur
m. nished the Final High o.
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There has been much action Of q
weighty and important character
touching road building in this sec
ton during the past three or four
years but on the action in Tisho-
omingo.county Friday perhaps hung
as much importance as. any that
has taken place.
When a bond issue of $100, 900
was voted to. build government
aid road across the county from
the Alcorn line to the Alabama
state line, it insured a government
aid road all the way from Muscle
Shoals to Corinth. Alabama state
highway commissioners, it is said
nave been waiting the result of the
Cishomingo vote in order to make
distribution of the highway funds,
and the favorable vote in Tisho-
mingo Friday will insure a suffi-
oient allowance from the state high
way department to get government
aid through Colbert county to the
Tennessee river.
The vote in Alcorn on the Ord of
June carries a government road
from the Farmington school house
on to the county line; the Tisho-
mingo vote puts a government road
on across the county then across
Colbert county to Sheffield and the
Shoals. That will give an unbrken
government road of approximately
sixty miles, beginning at the cor
porate limits Of the city.
Iuka and Tishomingo county will
probably benefit more than any 9th
9r county'in this section from such
l highway, as it will open way
or people to get there on week ends
and other times, with their mineral
prings as the attraction. .-.--
The vote Friday was a very de-
cided one in favor of the floating of
bonds. There were only two voting
places, BVrnsville and Iuka. AT
Evansville the vote was l15. for aud
- against; at 1uka 264 for and
1866 against; making a total of 635
votes and a vote of almost two to
ne in favor of the bonds,
With this road built as outlined
md which is in accordance with
The plans now existing, it will mean
more to this section than any thing
hat has been accomplished in many
ears. 1t will open delightful
automobile road for passenger traf.
.ic, and the attractions along the
route are sufficient to make it a
)opular road for this purpose. Then
.Aith- the possibilities at Muscle
Shoals it will open up a freight
trucking route that will mean UNI
told thousands of dollars to the peo-
pie in freight savings, Iti is a dream
that is almost too good to be true.
The delegates from this territory,
in fact from Memphis on to Chaita.
nooga can now go to the Lee High
way directors meeting on next
Thursday loaded with all the as
urance that can be expected by
hat body, and ask that the tenta-
i've routing by Corinth be made
permanent. And this will be done
The Tennessee high way commits
sioners have been working diligently
| and without reference to cost, il
has been said, to secure an al
Tennessee route for this memoria
20 the great Confederate general
but the men behind the projec
should be made to understand tha
this lis not only the logical routing
now, but that it is absolutely un
fair to deprive the state of Missis
sippi Of the privilege OF portion o
this national highway.
The Lee Highway now has no ex
cuse for not coming this way un
less it is going where the mos
moneyis proposed without regard
to roads. ~
La this connection it is interest.
ng to note that the expenditure or
this road psoiect will reach appr TX
imately'a half million dollars when
completed. Alcorn proposes. to
spend $40, 900 on the completion oi
| the road to the county line. This
is to be met with an equal amount
from the federal government, max
ing $4,000. 100000 in Tisho'
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