Southern good roads . rs raised ) tons of fan,, p,odi,cls a,iil itmany of onr southern states—stretches of g;iod roadseparated from each other by stretches of bad will also mean that the ]ieople of North TVirolinaw]]] i,isist that the L!e,,e,al ass(M,ibly of IHIM ,,,eas-i;ies creating a State (o,,imission and somelorm of state aid to the counties in public road wmk. In a telegram from Mv. Pratt he wires this encourag-ing statement: Percentage of improxid roads in North (arolinais ten and two tenths per cenl. In 1904 the state was ciedited with per <en
Southern good roads . rs raised ) tons of fan,, p,odi,cls a,iil itmany of onr southern states—stretches of g;iod roadseparated from each other by stretches of bad will also mean that the ]ieople of North TVirolinaw]]] i,isist that the L!e,,e,al ass(M,ibly of IHIM ,,,eas-i;ies creating a State (o,,imission and somelorm of state aid to the counties in public road wmk. In a telegram from Mv. Pratt he wires this encourag-ing statement: Percentage of improxid roads in North (arolinais ten and two tenths per cenl. In 1904 the state was ciedited with per <ent. In passing from North (a,oli,,a I wish to commeniupon the thoroughness and zeal ol I),-. Irall. lie issued Good I\oads (ir, detailing pulilicr<iad work in North Carolina during 191(1. It is thebest thing of tin kind that I l,a\i see,, co,,,i i,,il of 11,!?Avhole south. I A\isl, that cvicl, stale coi,l(l jirepaieand distribute siicl, a coi,,i)ilat in,, of iisiInl Iaids.* * More than ^ is being ii,\cslid ,,, good the counties that center around liristol in Kast Ten-nessee, and in Soutlnvest Yiiginia. When the NewYork ireiald-Allanta Journal scout cars rai, throuchthe south al)out two .^a-ars ago the ]-)atl,ti,iders ilecla,edthat the roads were iIm^ worst hail cxci encon,,tered. As a result of the terrible (.•oiidili m of the l,i^l, scouts, even with large and po\\i,-fiil cais. \\eieable to negotiate only a few miles a (la.\. The ci-iticis,,,the roads received at that lime on ai-coi,i,l of Ihci,frightful condition starlcd the i,,o\ement I hat has ,esidted in the appropriat io,, of a vast sum of i,,o,iey Iihmodern macadamized high\va.\s. Within two .vears the iMei,,|ihis-to-Rrisliil l,igliwa.\.a macadamized pike exteading dia,goii;,ll> ai-ioss thistate, will be completed, and all?ead.^• a ii,o\-ei,,ei,l ison foot for the building of a highway from l>,istol toWashington. This will gi\e one stretch of graded andm
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