. Boone County Recorder . the Mis-souri performance it may be recalledthat the Romans, the greatest roadmakers the-world has known, did notdo their work in spasmodic festivals;the roads that they built to last forcenturies were built slowly and la-boriously. FEDERAL MONEY FOR ROADS Appropriation of $500,000, to Bet> JStvjded Among Thirty-EightStales Is Small Beginning. The infoittotion conveyed throughthe Americans Washington reportsconcerning the apportionment of $10,-ftfX) to this state from the federal ap- propriation of $500,000 to assist inbuilding post roads in the variousstates is im
. Boone County Recorder . the Mis-souri performance it may be recalledthat the Romans, the greatest roadmakers the-world has known, did notdo their work in spasmodic festivals;the roads that they built to last forcenturies were built slowly and la-boriously. FEDERAL MONEY FOR ROADS Appropriation of $500,000, to Bet> JStvjded Among Thirty-EightStales Is Small Beginning. The infoittotion conveyed throughthe Americans Washington reportsconcerning the apportionment of $10,-ftfX) to this state from the federal ap- propriation of $500,000 to assist inbuilding post roads in the variousstates is important when the full sig-nificance is considered. The appro-priation of $500,000, to be dividedamong forty-eight states, is a veryemail beginning in the way of buildinggovernment post roads, but it is a be-ginning, Bays the Baltimore is of great significance that thegovernment has made a start in thedirection of federal aid in road build-ing. The $10,000 apportioned toMary-[ goes to pay for one-third the cost. PLANNING FOR BETTER ROADS Method of Construction Must Be Put in Operation Which Will Produce More Durable Highways. Waterbound macadam roads, whichfor practically a century have beenadequate for the traffic, have now,under the new conditions, become ob-solete, and their further constructionmeans a serious waste of publicfunds, is the opinion of former Presi-dent Lewis R. Speare of the Ameri-can Automobile association. Macadam may answer for sideroads and cross roads where there TiTlittle travel to wear the surface intodust, and few fast moving vehicles tothrow the dust into the air to beblown away. But for main roads, any-where and everywhere, a method ofconstruction must be put in operationwhich will produce durable roads. Wherever it can be used concretemakes a most excellent road, or aroad base for some other kind of sur-face. The state of California hasadopted concrete construction forpractically its entire system of statehighways, after a most thorough i
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