Show OD chai lii a aws NOM altes lt eS GOOD ROAD WOKE UP COUNTY single stretch of really improved aroused people to need of more improvements the following I 1 interesting ute resting story of how a single stretch of really good road has waked up an entire county to its need of better highways comes from kansas and was printed in the chanute tribune it begins one good county built road has do done no more said a farmer recently to put pat chautauqua county on the map than all township built roads havo have done in ten years the road he referred to was built last fall and early eaily this spring by the county the now county road law it crosses I 1 chautauqua county from east to west its benefits are just beginning to be fully realized one day recently motor metor cars from oklahoma city fort worth joplin ordway colo coffey ville and independence wore were at chanute at the same time the good road la Is bringing hundreds f tourists through chautauqua coun 1 1 who otherwise would never have ln n the county As a result realty 14 y li report a larger number of for inquiries isquia ps about lands there than before e f 0 r e the farmers are begin jj yo tb 0 s see e 0 the ahe benefit of having out keople Jy people i through the county and t good road enthus enthusiasts lasts tu t acqua was one of the first 1 les in the state to take addan apt the new county road law permits a tax levy not exceed ae e mill for road purposes that r Is spent by the county corn com ners its great advantage lies iles king it possible tor for the county roads across townships which rise ise would rould not build them unie une ald old 1 s system 6 tern one township w would ull 1 build a good road to the tio adie ship 1 line and the ahe board in the 1 township would do just as it ased ed about joining it with a conation I 1 of the work generally it not join and the result was a hyork of disconnected highways hichwa ys with the county board in control roads roads ca can abe be built and township aisles isles are obviated jt ye ar artho the county commissioners J id t a on one emill e mill tax and raised me 13 N that was all used on the crossroad all AH wooden bridges and I 1 ja were replaced with cement tone tano much permanent work llone tone the road today is even than it was when it was built ar another one mill tax was rear ind nd the same sum as last year alsed the work will be j arother rother i ro parts of the county this thia the he farmers also club together and jold good roads to join the county ads A neighborhood four or five miles iles back from rom the main road will join forces set a day or a week and fix the road leading to the good road nad thus the good road system is spreading over the county it la Is plan planned ned to make the third tax levy next year by that time every ono one of the twelve toWns township hipa s in this county will have received an equal share of I 1 the county money and havo have good j broadi roads leading lif in at least two dil directions rec across the township for a time there was much opposition to the county levy mass meet inga were held in the townships n not ot receiving any of the first farsi years levy and the tax was denounced petitions were 6 signed asking the commissioners not notto to make the levy this year but that was last january when the board made the levy this month there was not a protest those who appoo opposed ed the tax at first have been converted after using a good road for seven or eight months |