Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-09-11
Committees to Be Appointed By Mot
or Clubs of Both Cities to Push I'm,
provement of Conditions on Cen
trail Dixie Highway

Mr.. and Mrs. w. R. Bowen and l.
Gelders motored to Jacksonville Sun
day to attend meeting of the Jack
sonville Motor Club and committees
from Central Dixie highway commun
ties, which was attended by prominent
citizens of Waycross and Folkston
business men of Jacksonville, officials
of the Florida State Highway Depart.
ment and representatives of the Nor
gan Hill Construction Company.
Motoring thru from this city gave
the opportunity of getting first hand
information about the detours of which
so many reports have been published
and which in the main are easily nego-
tiated at this time. The roadway into
Jacksonville for about twenty-five
miles is completed and one of the
best in the state, eight miles more will
be opened to traffic within the next
six weeks when a perfect road will
be had from Hilliarb on to the metro
polls. The road from the St. Mary's
river to billiard is expected to be com
pleted by the middle of December,
when the entire route from Macon to
Jacksonville via Fitzgerald will be
the best all-season route into Florida.
The quality of the road at present
may be judged by the fact that the
return "trip to Fitzgerald was made in
five hours and thirty minutes actual
driving time.
The Florida Times Union, Tuesday
morning had the following report of
the meeting:
Committees will be appointed by
the motor clubs of Jacksonville and
Waycross at an early date for the
purpose of pushing the improvement
of the Central Dixie highway and
keeping all necessary detours in
good condition, as result of de-
cision reached yesterday at meet
ing of the board of governors of
the Jacksonville Motor Club held at
2 o'clock in the chamber of COM
merce rooms. A large number of
business men and members of the
Motor Club were the guests
of the local body and laid before
the Jacksonville organization a plea
for betterment of existing condi-
tons on the Waycross road. Presl-
dent F. O. Miller, presided
President Harry D. Reed of the
.avcross Motor Club was the spokes-
man for the visiting highway boost
ers, In speaking, Mr. Reed brought
70 memory the prediction of Mills B;
,ane.. president of the Citizens and
Bank of Savannah, ten
years 400 that no good highway
conld ever be constructed from Jack
sonyille to Waycross because OF the
swampy lands bordering the Oke-
fenokee He wamly praised , the,I
road that has been built in the face
of obvious obstacles and paid spe-
ciaI tribute to the man whose Ell
FORTS made possible the excellent
stretch of paved road from Jackson
vile to four miles north OF Callahan:
Mr. Reed deplored the condition OF
the present detours between Gala
han and the St. Marys river, calling
particular attention to the apparent
Iark Of attention to the placing and
Of detour signs
"A better road from Waycross to
Jacksonville means the addition OF
thousands of thousands of dollars,
not only to jacksonville, but to Way ;,
crsso and all of southeast Georgia.
Mr.. Reed declared "Unless we place
the Central Dixie highway in gooo
passable condition there are hundreds
Of tourists who will not only take the
Western route and thus miss Jackson
vile on their way down the state oul
there are others who will decide not 10
come to Florida at all
Mr. Reed launched no attack upon
the west route of the Dixie highway
and pointed out that majority OF
the traffic over that route never
reached Jacksonville and thus meant