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DADE COUNTYTIMES
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CONVICTS AND GOOD ROADS
There can be no doubt, as the
result of the practical experience
.which Fulton county has had in
employing convicts upon its roads
well as other counties which
have similarly employed them,
that the use of convicts for road
building is most effective and ex
tremely economical. It is not
necessary to say more as to the
effectiveness of convict labor on
the roads than to point to the ex
cellent raads which have been
built by them in Fulton and oth
er counties of the stste.
The question of economy is
largely determined by the cost of
keeping and working the convicts,
and the cost of maintaining the
convicts is governed somewhat
Roth by the management and the
number of convicts employed.
In the matter of management,
it is econamical to employ a su
perintendent to have charge of the
convicts and general direction of
the road building who has suffici
ent ability to avoid wasteful ex
pense, sufficient administrative
ability to manage men, and suffi
cient knowledge of road building,
lk>th to make the best use of the
ti
material at hand and to so con
struct the roads as to give them
the highest degree of durability
which the conditions permit.
Convict cast 45 cents a day.—
The experience of Fulton county,
under careful management, is that
with an average of about 400 con
victs, the cost to the county per
convict, per day, is now approxi
mating 45 cents, This includes
every expense incurred by the
AN INVITATION *
1 exhmd a cordial invitation to the inhabitant? of the < *'bite of Dude
Cos call on me when in (JhatUinooga and inspect my stock of hewing
machines. Peerless patterns, Scissors and Shears, Hall's lloichert Dress
Forms, Needles, Attachments and all parts tor all machines.
When your old machine needs repairing send it to me. When yon
want anew machine come to me.
MACHINES FROM $2.50 TO SSO-00.
Domestic, White, Davis, New Home Standard. Crown Sunder, Yimlex
Special. (oodlicit It. Wilcox U*qeton and Ilihhard Tree.
H. H. SOUDER,
Street. Sign; The Raloon and Souder.
EVERYTHING
stock of the right goods.
GOODS THAT- YOU WANT.
v * s
Will buy if you see them fiist. Prices art
guaranteed to be satisfactory for cash or its
''• - * ■
equivalent.
J. C. ROBERTSON
county in connection with the
maintenance of the convicts and
ol the building of roads; that is,
it includes the cost of feeding,
clothing, housing and guarding
the convicts, as well as superin
[ tendence, medical attention,
maintenance of live stock, repairs
to machinery, purchase or con
straction of wagons, purchasing
of new stock to take the place of
those that become disabled, and
road material, and providing an
annual depreciation on all the
machinery owned by the county
l of 10 per cent per annum; that is
to say, that when all these items
are considered and the total sum
is divided by the number of con
victs held by the county, includ
ing the disabled ones, as well as
the able-bodied ones, the average
cost per-capita per day of each
convict does not exceed 50 cents.
Since some of the items, such
as superintendence, wear and tear,
and depreation in machinery, and
other similar items, which may be
easily thought of, can not be re
duced beyond a certain point, the
cost of maintaining a small camp
would be. per-capita, proportion
ately greater than that of as large
a one as Fulton has employed, but
I estimate that, under reasonably
good management, a gaiig of 25
men, supplied with such machin
ery, such stock and such tools,
implements and road materials as
that number of men could effec
tively employ, ought not to cost
any county, including all of the
items which I have above men
tioned, more than 75 cents per
day per man. Indeed lam mak
ing a liberal estimate in making
this figure. The ratio of cost, per
capita, of course, decreases in pro
portion to the increased number
of men employed.
Superiority of convict labor.—
Convict labor is far superior to
such free labor as could be pro
cured in Georgia for this purpose,
because the labor is always at
hand; the laborer works a whole
day; he is so trained as to under
stand exactly what is expected of
him; lie is well clothed, well fed
and well attended, so as to keep
him in the best physical condition.
The figures above given show
that the actual cost, per-capita,
including all expenses connected
with the rogd building, is from
one third to one half of the cost
of the labor alone where free la
bor is employed.
It is not necessary for me to re
fer to the benefits which the conn - j
ties receive as the result of em
ploying their convicts upon the
roads, liecause all concede the
value of good roads to every com
munity, but it will not be out of
place in connection with the eco
nomical phase of the question to
remind you that:
A good road greatly enhances
the property that it reaches. In
my experience in Fulton county,
the enhancement in value imme
diately following the completion
of a first-class road has ranged
from 100 to 300 per cent—that is
to say, immediately upon the
v ompletion of a road constructed
properly, the lands, say situated
from five to fifteen miles from At
lanta, have become marketable
at from 100 to 300 per cent more
than they could have been sold lor
before the road was completed.
The lands lying nearest the city,
having a greater value before,
showed the least percentage ol in
crease and those at the greatest
distance from the city, having
small value before, showed the
largest percentage of increase, Oi
course, these percentages in in
crease would not raach the high
est figures in a county that did
not have a large city m it, but l
do believe that in any county the
percentage of increase would be
less than 100 per cent —that is to
say, where lands were selling from
ten to fifteen dollars per acre prior
to the construction of a first-class
road from the county site, through
or near these lands, they would
immediately thereafter become
worth from twenty to thirty dol
lars an acre. This is due to sev
eral causes but prominent among
them is that the grade on the road
being placed at a minimum, the
farmer can haul from his home to
the county site or shipping point
three times as much produce as he
previously could, depending upon
previous conditions of the road; he
can haul more rapidly and occupy
less of his time in going and re
turning from the shipping .point,
and it becomes profitable for him
to raise many things that before
that time he could not raise be
en use lie could not market the
product; and in addition to this
the increased comfort and pleasure
in getting back and forth induce
people to seek investments in
farms and suburban lands, who
would, without the good roads,
never consider the subject at all
It makes it easy for the children
to go to school, and both adults
and children to go to church; the
school population and churehgo
e s are increased, with the result
that the degree of civilization and
culture in the commit ity is en
hanced. Corollary to the en
hancement in values thus pro
duced is the increased amount c l
taxes which the county receives
.ml the consequent increased abil
ity on the part ol* the county t >
maintain the convicts.
Small squad not so efficient.—
With a small squad of men, say
twenty-live or less, it would be
difficult to accomplish much more
than an easy grade and the keep
ing of them in repair; and even
this work would necessarily pro
gress slowly with so small a force,
but would nevertheless be a great
help to the country and would be
of a benefit proportionately much
larger than the cost.
To construct a first-class road
would require a larger force of men,
depending somewhat upon what
material was employed* in the
road building. A macadam roa ,
the kind of road which we tue
building now a'most exclusively in
Fulton county, say sixteen feet in
width, where the county owns its
own machinery, tools, iniph men Is.
stock, wagons and other necessary
apt dances and quarries and crush
es its own stone, would require
not less than fifty men employed
on the work lot its construction,
though a macadam road, where
the more primitive methods are
employed in its construetio
could he laid with twenty five 01
thirty men, but the progress would
be slow, and the result m.ire or
less unsatisfa *!o y Still, any
progress is better than none, an .
Ij would not advise a countv to r -
fuse to work its convicts on its
loads even though it could not
accomplish the most scientific re
sults with the force at its com
mand.—Den. ‘ lifiord I . Amier
so . in Atlanta Georgia •.
CASTORS A
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Sought
Bears the
Signature of
TAX MATTERS
State of Georgia, Dada County
Court of Ordinary sitting for county
purposes October 20th 1908*
Whereas, NY. P. Pace Tax Col
lector elect for said Counnv for the
years 1 907 and 1908 having filed
his bond, as required by law, with
approved security and the court of
ordinary having accepted the same
as solvent, it is therefore ordered
by the court of ordinary that said
W. P. Pace. T. C., he and is here
by authorized and required to col
lect and pay to the county Trea
urer as the law requiresanddirecG
for the following purposes, to-vvit:
Taxable valuation of property on
Digest for 1908 $1168,611
Taxable valuation of Railroad
property $719,997
Taxable value of Telegraph and
Telephone property $5,448
To’al valuation $1,889,086
Jury and Halids oAc $1.038 99
Pauper fund 4c 755.63
Jail fund 2Jc 42*2.27
General fund 3c .666.72
Fees fund l|c 236.14
Commission fund 3 1-4..., 613.94
Fuel and Stationary 4c ....94.55
Road fund 15c 2,883.6
Making a total 1 ate of 35c on oh
SIOO.OO for all county pel pose
for t lie yenr 1908. And the Suit
rate is 50c on the SIOO 00 for tin
year 2908, making a total rate ol
85c on the SIOO.OO for state and
county purposes for the year 1908.
The railroad, tdegraph and tele
phone valuations are taken thorn
the assessment of 1907 a* the val
uation of said properties are under
going arbetration and I am inform
ed hv the Comptroller General that
it is not likely to tie st tiled soon.
The amount assessed for commis
sions is intended to cover the con
mission on t he w hole am >mt ievie
for Die year 1908.
Giv-n under my hand and offici
al signature.
\\ n.. 0. Reesv, Ordinary.
Tfip aiticle from the pen of Gen.
Clifford L. Anderson, of Atlanta,
on ‘‘Convicts and Good Roads,"
is the best thing we have read on
the subject.
Nl. Anderson is thoroughly fa
miliar subject and points
out (deal 1 ity of
working con lie roads in
the smalb r count w.'ii :b
(dciss Dade is painfudy it
his ideas aie correct, this
applicable to us.
This paper has been inclined to
favor convict labor for road bu ild
ing, but since reading Gen. An-
dersoti’s article on the subject, an 1
the law creating, regulating and
governing convict labor on roads
and other public works of the
State, our views have been changed
and we now believe it would be
impractical and very expensive for
as small a county as Dade to work
convict labor.
Dade county is only entitled to
I’ve conviets as ber share, without
cost, other than expense of work
ing them; and if she were to get a
greater number, all ovet five would
have to come from other counties
at the expense of SIOO.OO per an
num each, and the expense of
bringing them here.
There are many good reasons
vhy this county cannot afford t>
work convicts on her roa D, hut
enough to know that it won't pay.
Hoads can be built in Da h
county cheaper than by convict
labor, under a plan which will be
published in ibis paper next week.
F. J. WILLIAMS
FINE WATCH REPAIRING
Fifty cents for cleaning. Reasonable price
for .ill work. Will reeieVe orders bv inni!
aiut p:iv postage on all orders one wav.
v Mice address, RISING FAWN, U.\.
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fafli hU £h f 1 i: FORMATION 1
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Jj {or sp’-?. Not rorticroe" about location. I
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S5 will s<s>! 'Hr --t to -r. Give price, 3
Gj and icriptv.’!i unu ctai-s ' : * ctl possession Q
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For Congress.
HON. GORDON LfCfc
For Judgeot Superior Court Cl er
okne Circuit
Judge A. W. Fite.
For Solicitor General of Cherokee
Circuit.
Col. T. C Milner.
CITATION.
Georgia, Dade Oonntv:
Whereas, Win. Gross sul in inist rat or 01
Mrs. lhbie Morgan de< eas and, represents to
the court in his petition, duly filed and
entered on record, that he has fully ad
ministered said estate. This is, therefore,
to cite all persons concerned, kindred and
creditors, to s'*o\v cause, if any they can,
why said administra'or should not be dis
charged from his administration, and re
ceive letters of dismission on the first
Monday in November 1908. This Goto
her 7th 1908. W'm. O. Reese, Ordina ry.
HAD A CLOSE CALL,
Mrs. Ada L. Croons, the widely known
proprietor of the Groom Hotel, Vaughn,
Miss., says: “For several months I suf
fered with a severe cough, and consump
tion seemed to have its grip on rue, when
a friend recommended Dr. Kings New
Discovery. I began taking it, and three
hollies affected a complete cure” The
fame of this life saving cough and cold
remedy, and lung and throat healer is
wotld wide. Sold at all drug stores 50c
and SI.OO. Trial hot tie free.
WHERE LI CL LETS FLEW.
David Darker, of Fayette, N- Y., a vete-
I ran of the civil war, who lost a foot at
Gettvshurg, says: “The good Electric
hitters have done is wor h more than five
hundred dollars to me. I spent much
mom y doctoring for a laid case of stomach
trouble, to little purpose- I then tried
Electric hitters, and they cured me. 1
now take them as a tonic, and they keep
me strong ami well.” Sold at 50c a bottle
by all druggists,
WOULD MORTGAGE THE FARM.
A farmer on Rural Route 2, Empire,
G;i., W. A. Floyd by name, says: “huck
letds A mica Salve cured the two woist
sores I ever saw,one on my hand and the
other one on my leg. It is worth more
than its weight in gold. I would not be
without it if I had to im.rig ge the farm
to get it.” Only 25e at ali dmggi fs.
A HEALTHY FAMILY.
“Our whole family has enjoyed good
health since we began using Dr. King's
Nt w Life Eiils, three years ago,” says L.
\. Rartlet. of Rural Route 1, Guilford,
Maine. They dense and tone the system
in a gentle wav that docs you good. *_sc at
till dt uggists.
—grr ♦-
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