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VICTORIA, Tex., Sept. 22.) (UP)—Cotton highways may soon relieve the farmer without benefit of legislation. That is, if certain experiments now being conducted by State Highway Engineer Gibb Gilchrist are successful. These experiments, being con ducted near Gonzales and Yoa kum, are in line with a sugges tion recently sent Gov. Ross Ster ling by Leopold Morris, editor of The Victoria Advocate, “Highly compressed cotton, properly treated, would be more durable and cheaper than other road material, even at 18 cents a pound, according to preliminary investigations, Morris wrote Sterling shortly after he called the Texas legislature into special ses sion to pas a cotton acreage re duction bill. “Buildings erected many years ago in New Orleans on cotton foundations are still standing,” Morris said, “and a leading rail road constructed in England, built through swamps on bales of cot ton a half century ago, is still in existence. Morris wants a congressional committee to study the matter, as well as highway engineers. He further recalled that several years ago, when the price of rubber was low, the British government built several highways of rubber.
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