Southern good roads . p in by theState Highway Engineer. It is a very safe estimate tostate that many of the southern states w mid saAc from;|^40().(H)(I to $(ibO.()()0 a year in their public read workif the money were spent under the supervision of StateHighway Kugineers. Also it is safe to sa,\ that manyof tlie southern states would save from ii< to -^lOO,-(lOO in the consti-uction of their bridges, if the StateHighway Engineer had approved all the plans for theliridges, their location, and liad passed upon their con- SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS June, 1911 striictiou before payment was ma
Southern good roads . p in by theState Highway Engineer. It is a very safe estimate tostate that many of the southern states w mid saAc from;|^40().(H)(I to $(ibO.()()0 a year in their public read workif the money were spent under the supervision of StateHighway Kugineers. Also it is safe to sa,\ that manyof tlie southern states would save from ii< to -^lOO,-(lOO in the consti-uction of their bridges, if the StateHighway Engineer had approved all the plans for theliridges, their location, and liad passed upon their con- SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS June, 1911 striictiou before payment was made. In this connec-tion many examples could be cited of bridges havingb(-en constructed for counties and townships wherethey have not been located in the right place, have notbeen the kind of bridge required, and where thej havenot been constructed according to even the originalplans, and, after jjaying for the bridge, the commis-sioners have had to spend many hundred dollars to getthe bridge in the tirst class Macadam Road from Catawba River to Mooresville, N. C. If there can be such a saving in the revenue raisedfor public road construction, is it not strange that thepeople of the state do not demand that the state shalltake the supervision of public road construction? It is not because the officials or the people do notrealize that a great deal of the road fund ^s wastedeach year Ijoth in construction work and in the main-tenance of the road. There are few townsliips or coun-ties where the road work has been carried on entirelysuccessfully, and even where this has been accomplish-ed there is no connection between that county and theadjoining ones by good roads. In counties where thetownship is the unit there is no uniformity of road lo-cation f)r construction and in many instances no twotownships in the county are connected by good must be some strong reason for this condition,and it seems to me that it is, first, the selfishness of thetownship, and, seco
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