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W. Ingalls was a ation pee ged lige ora from two detectives as Mobile admitted that ‘find nothing suspicious to ¥ was going the rounds Tues to — effect that one of the men announced that “champion euchre player and tackled one of the county em- The result of the game was Detective dropped $30. Sear ee Hurried, j secretary of the Mo- Civic League in connec t the alleged probe into the employed by the board of sie and road commissioners made following statement Wednesday: ‘article published Wednesday the alleged probe on the . of the Civic League into the dispensing of funds seems to we hurried certain members of the city board into protestations of per integrity. Their haste in as im each his several honesty re d nothing more than the eager of outraged innocence to vindi ate itself, so, of course, no more can fo ‘aid on that point. “The civic league of Mobile county over the betterment of conditions out the county and has especial ice to good schools and good yet the present time much money is being spent on roads to little avail. We behold $8,000 voted and $10, repent ‘on each mile of good road fees. And yet, we have no roads and prospects of any, except perhaps a matter of fifty miles or less. For 0,000 we shall get fifty miles of Pike and Dallas counties, among have excellent roads. The gov ernment report on these roads show that Pike county built its roads of na tive material for $1,200 per mile, Mo bile county has the same sort of mate nd-clay in abundance,. The best expert advice recommends this material as the one, above all others, use in the regions where it occurs. Not only is it cheap in the first place, is material is always at hand for re and upkeep. Of course, there is yet no system of road maintenance this county, but one can never tell what might happen and perhaps some day will even want to preserve a good road, once we get it. Good, hard, sand-clay roads would believe the farmer from his great toil jand needless expense in getting his sods to market. For the amount of “bond issue we could have, instead fifty’: “miles, four hundred miles of «class road, equally good for loads and automobiles. One of the best stretches of road in the county is one @ mile in length,on Lott road. This is of sand-clay, built in 1906 or 1907 by U. S.Eegineer James as a demonstra tion road,. To the enlightened county commission the work of the government on road-making came far from ties their advanced ideas gained from extensive observation and travel to points lying fifteen and even twenty miles from Mobile. “It is the belief of the Civic League ‘and of the people who are interested in its work that the board of road and revenue commissioners are guilty of a ‘prievous extravagance and waste of funds in their present method of road ’p It is our desire to arouse as condemnation of their work, as will oblige them to change their meth ods or resign.”
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The Mobile Item
Mobile, Alabama, US
Wed, Jan 08, 1913
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