Southern good roads . were less hard to se-cure than the broken stone for surfacing. The latterwere slowly broken by hand. Steam rollers were mi-known. Records of first cost were not clear in manycases and no records of maintenance cost, for compari-son with a census of the traffic over the finished work,were available for pointing out what was economicalconstruction and what was not. Further it is doubtful if a fair comparison of resultsof the method in use by the Romans, and followed byTelford, can be made with similar work elsewhere be-cause of a lack of knowledge of, or lack of record of,t
Southern good roads . were less hard to se-cure than the broken stone for surfacing. The latterwere slowly broken by hand. Steam rollers were mi-known. Records of first cost were not clear in manycases and no records of maintenance cost, for compari-son with a census of the traffic over the finished work,were available for pointing out what was economicalconstruction and what was not. Further it is doubtful if a fair comparison of resultsof the method in use by the Romans, and followed byTelford, can be made with similar work elsewhere be-cause of a lack of knowledge of, or lack of record of,the variance in the local conditions of climate anduse. We do know, however, that Telford was triedin France and abandoned for Macadam. In this country, with its diversified conditions, bothTelford and macadam have been used luider all sortsof circumstances and the consensus of opinion seemsto be against the use of Telford except under mostextraordinary circumstances. Nowadavs, with the rise in valuation of even rough. Bad Road in West Virginia. Wagon m Mud —Dead Horse. Is Tiiis Civilization or Semi-Barbarism Septemlier. igii SOUTHERN GnnV) ROADS
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