Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-11-05
CONCRETE ROADS TO
LINK GA. CITIES PLANNED
Statewide System of Trunk Line
Highways Now Being Mapped
Out by State Board
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Plans for contraction of state
wide system of concrete trunk ine
highways, linking important Georgia
cities and extending from border 70
border of the state, are being devel-
oped in the five-yesr program OF ene
state highway board, it was learned
Sunday night. +,
With the highway board expected
to take action this afternoon on a pro
posal to connect Atlanta and Macon
by giving small uncompleted sections
of the highway between those Two
cities. it became known that the five
wear program of the department IN
cludes projects which will link Allan
Ia and Savannah by way OF Macon
the state line at Chattanooga with
the Florida line, and Atlanta with
Columbus.
Board Paving Way
Renorts that the highway board
is on the verge of constructive pro-
gram of connecting up big Georgia
cities with concrete trunk lines are
supported by the manner in which
concrete roads have been built with
in the last few years. Small SEEM
ingly unimportant concrete stretches
have been built on main highway
lines with the customary sand-clay or
ton soil road in between. By building
these small stretches gradually, and
then connecting them by other small
stretches. it SENS to be the highway
boards purpose to finally reach the
height of the good roads enthusiasts
dream by turning out finished prod
uct in the way of trunk line high
way paved with concrete.
The Atlanta-Macon trunk line con-
crete highway is the second concrete
highway of any Importance for Geor-
gia, following the coastal route from
South Carolina to Florida through
Savannah and Brunswick. Among 9th
err projects in contemplation by the
state highway board, it is under
stood, is the connecting OF Atlanta
and Savannah by concrete highway
through Macon. This is given cred
ence by the proposal to link Atlanta
and Macon. There are small stretches
of concrete highway scattered be-
tween Macon and Savannah and it re-
quires no wild flight of the magma
ton to visualize a program between
Macon and Savannah similar to the
Atlanta-Macon project.
Members Unanimous
It is known that all three members
of the Highway board: John N. Hold
er, chairman; Stanley S. Bennett and
John r. Phillips, are heartily in IA
vor of the program which contem-
plates the building of concrete high
ways from city to city in Georgia,
and are exerting every effort in that
| direction.
Judging from concrete highway
construction work now under advise
ment by the highway board from At
lanta to Gainesville, the highway
board apparently intends to build a
concrete highway from Chattanooga
i to the Florida line. The Atlanta-Ma-
con trunk seems assured, and agita-
ton is being started to carry the con
crete highway on to Florida from
Macon, a meeting being called fol
Cordele recently for this purpose.
Chairman Holder and Congress
man Rutherford Of Forsyth attend.
ed conference in Macon the 30th
at which the Atlanta-Macon highway
was discussed. Members of the Ma.
con Exchange club sponsored the
meeting.
A committee from the Macon Elk
change club accompanied by Con.
gresham Rutherford, held confer
ence recently in Atlanta with Chair
man Holder on the proposed concrete
trunk line. On the committee were
DR.. Walter Mobley, Everett Flour
noy and Charles Campbell. The
meeting on October 80 was called fol
the purpose of interesting counties
along the route so there will be nc
delay in starting the paving ant
pushing it to completion. The Bibt
| county commissioners will attend thu