Xhiety-nine years ago Andrew Jack
?o? began the construction of a u,Mi
]?ai> highway from Nashville, Tenn
to .Madisonville, l.a.. <vlu. h was .???>"
pie ted In May, It scanned
'?> the topographical engineers of the
j!r,l,y ???' ">UU? by soldiers. 1? the
"tr i V',1 V|fyS "l<? ''"Eincers followed a
. tiaight line bearing north 35 degrees
V' as as the topography of
be country permitted. The total length
1 il . road is .,16 miles, and all of it
lias been m continuous use ever since
was finished. At the present time
llien is project to transfer the name
'?1 Jackson IIighwty to another route
between these terminal cities. The ad
vocates of the old route make the
?; temenl that the rural white pop,
l.ition along it is tlve times as long
as the proposed new route, which is 1
. ? I testimony to
I"- value of .. well-located highway in
bringing people into the country tra
versed by it.
earth road question
STIRRING MIDDLE WEST
IIII11.,is MIkI,,,,,, Department Declare*
l.urrh It.,tut t'tinii.,t I,.. Prop.
tI> Maintained.
