Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-20
PEACH CROP BADLY. DAMAGED BY FREEZE
STATE ROAD BUILDING
PROGRAM FOR YEAR
Call For Expenditure of So, 346,-
317.56, According To High
way Department

ATLANTA, March 2O.-(By the
Associated Press.)-Georgia's road
building program for the coming
year calls for an expenditure of ap-
proximately $3,346,317.56, accord
ing to figures released by the State
Highway department. Half Of this
amount comes from federal aid
funds and the other half to be fur
nished by the different counties in
which the projects are to be con-
structed.
I The program calls for the con-
struction of approximately 400 miles
of roads in more than fifty Georgia
counties, it is stated. The total
amount of federal aid, which is be-
ing distributed among these coun-
ties, is announced as $1,673,158.73.
Surveying will begin on some of
the projects Immediately, it is stat
ed, and the work will be pushed for
ward as rapidly as possible. The
highway department is now well
organized, officials state, and is cap
able of doing its best work.
The amount of federal aid receiv-
ed fall considerably under the total
for 1922, it is stated, when Georgia
led the union in the amount obtain
ed. having a total of $3.50, 278.70.
The federal aid money, which in
each case will be matched with an
equal amount by the counties, is be-
ing allotted the counties for their va
rious road projects as follows:
Floyd - Rome-Cartersville road,
$4,000
Fannin - Blue Right Tennessee
state line road, $4,000.
HARRISON - Buchanan-Carrollton
road, $4,000.
Cherokee - Canton-Jasper road,
$4,000,
HARRISON, - Tallapoosa-Alabama
state line road, $48,613.20.
Cobb-Fulton counties, for use on
the Chattahoochee river bridge on
Roswell road, 100000.
Rabun - Clayton-Tallulah river
road, $4,000.
Hall - Gainesville-J efferson road,
$4,000.
broad, $4,000.
Stephens - Cornelia-Toccoa road,
$4,000.
Habersham - Demorest-CIarkes-
willie road, $4,000.
White CleveIandBlairsvillp
road, $18,293.37.
Fayette OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
burg road, $4,000.
Carroll - Carrollton Bremen
road, $4,000.
Meriwether - Harris City Warm
Springs roads, $4,000.
Troupe - Hardsurfacing the La
Grange West Point road, $4,000.
Butts - Jackson-Griffin road,
$35,OOO.
Oconee - Watkinsviile-Madison
road. $4,000.
Ebert Elberton-W ashington,
$4,000.
Jasper - Monticello-Gray road,
$4,000.
Hart - Royston-Hartwell road,
$4,000.
Newton - Covington-M Monticello
road, $17,5O0.
Green - Greensboro-Wat kinsviIe
road. $4,000.
MADISON - Danielsville Conner
road, $4,000.
Jefferson - Richmond
county line, $4,000.
Hancock - Sparta Washington
county line. $4,000.
chmond-Seventeen miles south
pD7yl0ty- limo
$4,000.
Taliaferro - Observation-Disclosures
rem county line road. $4,000.
Wilkes - DISQUALIFICATION road,
$4,000.
Baldwin - Observation-Disclosures
Vile road $4,000.
Columbia-Appling-Lincon coun-
'ty line, $4,000
Terrell - Dawson-Parrott road,
$29, 900.
Observation-Disclosures road
$29, 900
Sumter - Americas Ellaville
road, surfacing old project, S21,-
8O216.
Wheeler lenwood-Lumber City
road, S12,500.
Telfair - McRae-Milan road,
$4,000.
Dodge - Rhinc-Milan road, 49,
$50.
Twiggs - Macon-Jeffersonville
road, $4,000.
Doolv - Pinehurst-Unadilla road,
$4,000.
Ribb - Nacon-J cffersonville road
and for other purposes, $4,000.
Rulloch - Observation-Disclosures
road, S55, 900.
Toombs - V,Ialia-Lyons road,
$4,000.
TattnalI ~ Reidsville-Collins road,
$4,000.
jenkins - Millen-Screven county
line rold, $4,000.
Bryan = Bullock county line to
jerks bridge, $4,000
Thomas - Bridge between Thorn
asville and Cairo, $4,000.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS road,
$4,000.
$4,000.
Colnrlitt - Moultrie-Camilla road
$4,000.
Echols. surfacing old project be-
tween Valdosta and Florida state
Lowndes - Valdosta-Cooke eoun-