Southern good roads . of a Ten-ton Steam Steered Road Roller and Perfection Road Grader Also Case Water Tank, With Fuel Bunker on Top and Case Automobile in the Distance i6 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS February, iQii Co-Operatlon in Road Building Between City and County in Richland By HON. W. H. GIBBES, Mayor of the City of Columbia It lias aiwavs seemed to me that a prodigious amountof time, energy and brain power is thrown away inspeeches and arguments urging the necessity of goodroads. As well might we argue about the In-ightness of thesun. the wetness of water, or the hardness of the dia-mond. The
Southern good roads . of a Ten-ton Steam Steered Road Roller and Perfection Road Grader Also Case Water Tank, With Fuel Bunker on Top and Case Automobile in the Distance i6 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS February, iQii Co-Operatlon in Road Building Between City and County in Richland By HON. W. H. GIBBES, Mayor of the City of Columbia It lias aiwavs seemed to me that a prodigious amountof time, energy and brain power is thrown away inspeeches and arguments urging the necessity of goodroads. As well might we argue about the In-ightness of thesun. the wetness of water, or the hardness of the dia-mond. The proposition needs only to be stated to be])rjved anil admitted, for reason need not be invokedwhen instinct establishes a fact. Ernest Thompson Seton tells ns that even the rab-bits in the liriar patches cut vnies and tendrils fromthe jinths til their bnridws: we l^iiiiw of tile roads tlie. Road Graded, But Without Any Stone or Gravel. Between Racineand Kenosha, WisconFin bears make for themsehes thfongh the eanebrakes;and the runs of the deer along the lines of least re-sistance often point the way for the footsteps of men. And liy the way the designers ov engineers who laidout the city oi Golnmbia showed a strange perversenessin their aibitrary laying out of the eit\- according tomiheard of standards. They took the line of a v/inding river for their Imse,in place of using the cardinal points of the compass,and attempted to force the main thoroughfare alongrugged Assembly street instead of on ^Faiii street, tlienatural artery. Had civilized man followed the and the ani-mals he wduhl have wrought lietter in our city plan-ning, and a considerable part of our four square mileswould not lie in the waters of our rivers. Long before the day of Appius Claudius when thegreat Appian Way and all other roads led to Rome, itwas recognized that city and country should join h
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