California highways; a descriptive record of road development by the state and by such counties as have paved highways . ill Kings County Murry, and A. J. Young, directors. Helping them was theentire Board of Supervisors, reinforced by the chairman ofthe Highway Commission, who is one of the most enthusi-astic good-roads advocates in California today, and the voteresultant from the campaign made by these men recorded thefact that a tremendous majority of Kings County peoplewanted good roads. In type the roads laid down were of asphaltic concrete ofwhat is known as Topeka specification, compose
California highways; a descriptive record of road development by the state and by such counties as have paved highways . ill Kings County Murry, and A. J. Young, directors. Helping them was theentire Board of Supervisors, reinforced by the chairman ofthe Highway Commission, who is one of the most enthusi-astic good-roads advocates in California today, and the voteresultant from the campaign made by these men recorded thefact that a tremendous majority of Kings County peoplewanted good roads. In type the roads laid down were of asphaltic concrete ofwhat is known as Topeka specification, composed of crushedrock or gravel and sand of different grades bound togetherwith asphalt, much care being given to the subgrade anddrainage, and a generally careful job was done by the High-way Commission. In point of time Kings County also established a highstandard in the building of its highways and set a mark forspeedy construction which it is painful almost to contem-plate in view of the difficulties existent in 1919 in relation tohighway construction, so that the saying, Kings Countyhas good roads, which came into
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