Southern good roads . tlu lUlii convention was out of the i|uestion. and it was decided that the ]!UG Concreti pavement in the United Stales increased sluuild he held in -Liiinary or Feln-uary, and futurefrom .56-4,000 sipuire yards in 1909 to li).2l)0,(H)ll in meetings annually ihereafler at the same time of the1914. douubling over fifty times iu five years. year. 12 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS D ecember. 1915 Jackson Association Given Gavel Souvenir of Wood From Tree at Andrew Jacksons Old Home inNorth Carolina, Presented at Nashville. Gift of Mrs. W. W. Watt T HE executive board of the Ja
Southern good roads . tlu lUlii convention was out of the i|uestion. and it was decided that the ]!UG Concreti pavement in the United Stales increased sluuild he held in -Liiinary or Feln-uary, and futurefrom .56-4,000 sipuire yards in 1909 to li).2l)0,(H)ll in meetings annually ihereafler at the same time of the1914. douubling over fifty times iu five years. year. 12 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS D ecember. 1915 Jackson Association Given Gavel Souvenir of Wood From Tree at Andrew Jacksons Old Home inNorth Carolina, Presented at Nashville. Gift of Mrs. W. W. Watt T HE executive board of the Jackson Highway As-sociation at its meeting in Nashville. Teun., No-vember 18, heard the report of senior engineer R. , of tlie good roads department of the UnitedStates government. The pathtindiug committee, com-posed of W. H. Crim, W. L. Brown and E. G. Dent,also submitted all data they had gathered in Ten-nessee. Alabama, ilissouri and Louisiana. The definitelocation of the main route will be left to the whole. MRS. WALTER WELLINGTON WATT Charlotte, N. C. Donor Gavel to Jackson Highway Association board. The route from , through Alabama,by way of Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile 1oNew Orleans will not be definitely decided until thecommittee finishes its work next October. Definiteguarantees for the building of the road through thedifferent districts are being received. Mississippi isvery much interested in the final selection and has ina bid for recognition. Suggestions have been madethat a branch of the road go into ilississippi farthernorth than the proposed route through Birminghamand Mobile. Tliis route would skirt the gulf from Mo-bile, going through Pass Christian, Miss., recentlyPresident Wilsons winter home. A feature of the meeting in Nashville was the pre- sentation of a gavel made from wood cut from a treeat Andrew Jacksons birthplace in Union Carolina. The gavel was given to the liigh\vayassociation by ilrs. AVelliiigtnn AVatt, of Char
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