California highways; a descriptive record of road development by the state and by such counties as have paved highways . ement which culminated in March, 1917, in thepassing of a bond issue for $2,200,, knew pretty wellwhat they were about. These men were J. H. Newman, F. M. Pfrimmer, J. , J. N. Young, and Fay Singleton, members of thethen Board of Supervisors, and to help carry out the plans theTulare County Good Roads Association was formed whichtook active charge of the campaign through a committee oftwenty-one representative citizens headed by A. W. Quinn ofExeter, presiden
California highways; a descriptive record of road development by the state and by such counties as have paved highways . ement which culminated in March, 1917, in thepassing of a bond issue for $2,200,, knew pretty wellwhat they were about. These men were J. H. Newman, F. M. Pfrimmer, J. , J. N. Young, and Fay Singleton, members of thethen Board of Supervisors, and to help carry out the plans theTulare County Good Roads Association was formed whichtook active charge of the campaign through a committee oftwenty-one representative citizens headed by A. W. Quinn ofExeter, president, and Richard E. Stark of Visalia, secretary. The highway plan adopted called for two hundred twentymiles of concrete highways fifteen and sixteen feet wide andfive inches thick, to be surfaced with a carpet of asphalt typetwo inches in thickness; and as soon almost as the citizens ofTulare County voted in favor of the bonds, road buildingbegan, the result being that in December, 1918, less thantwenty months after the bond issue was voted, one hundredninety-seven and one-half miles of concrete roads had been [276]. 53* 1•a
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