Southern good roads . sugar—all ofgood quality and well cooked, an unusual tiling in aprisiui. The success of the road camp is most important in^Missouri. It has over 2,600 male convicts in the peni-tentiary with cell room for 1000, often making it nec-cessary for five and six men to be huddled together inone cell. The prisoners have been worked under thecontract system, but owing to the cooperation betweenthe National Committee on Prisons and Prison Laborand the Penitentiary Investigation Committee of th>^Missouri Senate this worn out system cannot coutinui-much longer and. as Col. Buftum
Southern good roads . sugar—all ofgood quality and well cooked, an unusual tiling in aprisiui. The success of the road camp is most important in^Missouri. It has over 2,600 male convicts in the peni-tentiary with cell room for 1000, often making it nec-cessary for five and six men to be huddled together inone cell. The prisoners have been worked under thecontract system, but owing to the cooperation betweenthe National Committee on Prisons and Prison Laborand the Penitentiary Investigation Committee of th>^Missouri Senate this worn out system cannot coutinui-much longer and. as Col. Buftum points out. riad workcan hold mit a leading place in the new system ofprison industries which must be worked out for tlieState of ilissouri. North Carolina. .Mr. .\. liucknei- writes from Asheville as follows:Thr(Uigh the country seven miles, from toWeaverville the enterprising commissioners of the coun-ty of Buncombe, in Western North Carolina, are build-ing an asphalt-macadam highway sixteen feet wide. One of Buncombe Countys Plants, on theAsheville-Weaverville Highway with additional 2-ft. Telford and :{-ft. Telford shoul-der borders. It is believed liy good road enthusiastsof that section that this road is the beginning of the d,-^-niand throughout that entire section of roads betterthan the old macadam and sand clay roads, especiallyf jr the main highways across the county and that sec-tion of the state. This road is being built on an old woiiiout macadamroad, except at a few places where the road is beingchanged to eliminate heavy grades. The old macadamis being scarified and (ui top of the scarification is be-ing placed four inches of crushed stane and rolled dov^nto two and a half inches. On this foundation, which September, 1915 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS 21 is |ilc|);nT(l hy 111,. iMiimly with ifscniivicl riil-cc, nil,Id- the .supervision of |lie (-(nnity road , ninl conii-ty coniniissioncrs. a layer of aspliall macadam, tlir from
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