The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-01-25
START PLANS At
CEMENT ON HARD
SURFACED ROADS
Enthusiastic ls Meeting OF Cement
Chamber Of Commerce; Petitions
for Election on Bond Issue
Started.
CHICKASHA c. OF c. IS
REPRESENTED AT MEET
Purpose Is TO Raise $4,000 In
Cement Township to Match Fed
eraI Aid; 10 Start OF System
OF Road Plans.

To promote township bond Issue
OF a little less than $4,000. to b,
matched" with a similar amount
OF federal aid. making approximate
ly 100000 available for building
hard surface roads. was the object
OF a mass meeting held at Cement
Tuesday afternoon and as n result
OF which petitions are now being
circulated asking that an election be
called for this purpose.
Upon invitation OF the Cement
Chamber OF Commerce. the Chlcka.
sha Chamber OF Commerce sent a
delegation Of fifteen men TO the meet.
ing. Cement was practically a clos.
ed up town for time. nearly all
the business men. as well as many
farmers from the surrounding coun-
try. attending the meeting. The
meeting was called by officers OF
the Cement Chamber of Commerce
who were in active charge OF II,
much preliminary work having been
done in preparation for It. Careful
calculations concerning the cost OF
the proposed road. asseesable pro.
perty in the township and the cost
to the taxpayers had been made.
The immediate purpose is TO hard.
surface the road from Cement to
the Grady county line east OF the
town, after which connecting roads
extending In other directions from
the town would be tackled. The
Kind of road TO be constructed would
be similar to the one which was
built through the town of Cement
some eighteen months ago for which
rock found in abundance in the vi
cinity was used. This road, II was
pointed out, has stood up we'll un-
der the heaviest sort of traffic and
1t is believed that a similar one
would be entirely practicable on the
public highways. The cost per mile
was estimated to be around $1,000,
which is far below the cost of the
common type of hard surface road.
Figures presented by A. G. McKain
showed that the property owners
Of Cement would pay about 81 rer
cent of the improvements. II was
pointed out that there is considerable
public service property in the town
ship, the taxes derived from which
would operate to decrease the ex-
pense placed upon the land owners,
and also the townships share of the
gross production tax on oil is avail
able for road building.
In addition to the benefits to be
derived from good road, it was
pointed out that the expenditure of
the money derived from the sale of
the bonds and from the government
would go long way toward furn-
ishing employment to farmers and
others who are seriously in need of
work at the present time, thereby
helping to tide over existing condi-
tions. In response to the chairman
of the meeting, there was a general
discussion Of the matter, all phases
of it being threshed over. Mr.. John
son, a farmer living southeast of
Cement, while strongly in favor of
good roads, expressed the opinion
that the farmers wanted to be shown
that they would get the worth OF
heir money. He was assured that
it was planned to connect as many
roads as possible with the hard sur
face highway Meantime we must
make a start said Mr.. McKain,
"and since we must make a start
somewhere, we have selected the
most travelled road. AS fast as pos
sible, we want to improve all our
roads"
Not waiting for the completion Of
their present plans, the citizens Of
Cement hAEesiinduced the county
commissioners of Caddo county to
begin work on the worst part Of
the road from Cement o Chicka.
sha, the famous rock hill. ALREADY
thousands of tons Of rock have been
blasted and drilled out and removed
and now more than half of the hill
has been worked over. This work
is still under way but the road is
more easily negotiated than it was
in its former condition. The cars
that went to Cement from Chickasha
made the trip in less than an hour.
Members Of the Chickasha party