Items of Interest July 25, 1914 Issue

Items of Interest

An urgent appeal to the business men and texpayers of Connecticut to assist in solving the highway problem of the state is being made by the Connecticut Good Roads Association, which has begun an energetic campaign to secure the construction of permanent roads. In the trunk line system of Connecticut there are fourteen hundred and twenty miles of highway. On Oct. 1, 1915, a total of nine hundred miles will have been improved. Only a very small part of the nine hundred miles improved has a hard surface. The greater part of the roads are water-bound macadam. The state highway commissioner has asked for an annual appropriation of five hundred thousand dollars for renewals and reconstruction of trunk lines, and an equal amount for trunk line repairs, all to be used, wherever necessary, in placing a hard surface of some kind on the road.

The sale of the United States battleships Mississippi and Idaho for use in the Greek navy was consummated July 8 by the delivery to Secretary Daniels of a check for $12,535,275.96. The check was signed by an American agent representing the Greek government, which does not figure directly in the transaction. The ships will be delivered to the Greek government within a few days, the Mississippi at Hampton Roads and the Idaho in the Mediterranean, probably at Gibraltar or Villafranche. The Idaho will be known as the Lemnos, while the Mississippi will take the name of Kilkie, both names famed in Greek history.

A concern owning fifteen thousand acres of land on the Atrato river, colombia, eight years ago planted thirty thousand Spanish cedars from the seed on the tract. It is expected that in two more years these trees will be classed as merchantable timber. Last year one of the trees was cut for the purpose of measurement. It yielded a thirty-foot log squaring fourteen by fourteen inches. The same concern is planting forty thousand additional cedars this year. The trees are being planted twenty-one feet apart, and for the first three years the land between will be used for raising corn and bananas.

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