California highways; a descriptive record of road development by the state and by such counties as have paved highways . Type of bridge built by County cooperation on the StateHighway in the San Joaquin Surfacing the Yolo Causeway. Type of Road and Construction present plan providing for a minimum of five inches, withsix inches where the subgrade is bad. Encouraged by the success of the type of road laid downby the Highway Commission, many counties throughoutthe state began to build concrete roads, accepting mostlythe State Highway specifications as to mix and thickness,so it may be f
California highways; a descriptive record of road development by the state and by such counties as have paved highways . Type of bridge built by County cooperation on the StateHighway in the San Joaquin Surfacing the Yolo Causeway. Type of Road and Construction present plan providing for a minimum of five inches, withsix inches where the subgrade is bad. Encouraged by the success of the type of road laid downby the Highway Commission, many counties throughoutthe state began to build concrete roads, accepting mostlythe State Highway specifications as to mix and thickness,so it may be fairly stated that the era of modern highways inCalifornia was born with the starting of the State Highway. Thousands of pages of technical and detailed informationwould scarcely serve to present the many and widely variedprocesses met in the actual construction work of the StateHighway, which varied from the most intricate legal prob-lems involved in the practice of eminent domain to theapplied psychology incident to bringing some stubbornsupervisor or chamber of commerce to what was equitableand right. To say that the Highway Commission had easysailing would be far from true, for they had many a fuss wi
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