Southern good roads . i in oiir county. We areimproving all mir roads with the top-soil nearest athand. If an.\ place liecomes bad and shows it is in-ferior, we will go bacdv then with a good road to travelover and haul a better (dass of fop-soil and put on topof it. The matter has progr(>ssed so far towards a fixedsentiment in our county that we have soUl our rockcrusher, and the chances arc, within the next threevears, that the macadam roads we built ^vill be con- verted hack info top-soil roads, by co\eriiig llie pres-ent macadam surfai-e with top-soil. ^oll may say \\-e are especially W
Southern good roads . i in oiir county. We areimproving all mir roads with the top-soil nearest athand. If an.\ place liecomes bad and shows it is in-ferior, we will go bacdv then with a good road to travelover and haul a better (dass of fop-soil and put on topof it. The matter has progr(>ssed so far towards a fixedsentiment in our county that we have soUl our rockcrusher, and the chances arc, within the next threevears, that the macadam roads we built ^vill be con- verted hack info top-soil roads, by co\eriiig llie pres-ent macadam surfai-e with top-soil. ^oll may say \\-e are especially Well situated. ;ind I am ])reparcd to that we liaNc 1 n \ei-y fortunate in finding Lidod (pialily soils. l;ut wi are not alone,Tiic is \aliial.|e o\er wide areas if oiir Appalaib-iaii country. In our coiinty W lia\e progressed to astage that seems to he satistacfory to oiir people. K\cn tbougli we wasted . 1(1(1 of liiir li I issue on poor m-icailam. with the .tber >f.)().(KKI we Imx-e a. Clarke Count,v, Georg-ia. WinterviUe Road. Top Soil Construction, 3(1 Feet Wiie, Two Years Old. Showing Bridge Concrete Abutments 3 8-1(1 Per Cent Maximum Grade. Old Road Bed Across Ford On Left of Picture p lint where our people wen willing to raise their faxrate, not a large aiiioiinf. but to raise their fax rate, andwe are wor!<ing a force of eighty coiixicfs in oiii countyno\\- at a ear. and the whole sum be-ing raised by about a three mills r lad fax. The statefaxes were ti\-e mills .-ind the county faxes live mills,making in all one cent on the hundred, or one dolarper liiindrid for state and c(iiiiity piirp ises. ()nl ofthat li\i mills, id course, not only die^ the road workc line. Iillt all the oilier colintx expenses. il is (dear tome that where ymi satisfy people the Welia\e done. Li\iiig llieiii xaliiable roads at a reasonahlecost, yon will find, certainly, if yon lia\-e Ibc townlundc of you. that you can keep up a ^^?inni
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