Southern good roads . Fine Koad in Bunromlic County, North Carolina SOUTHERN GUUU RUAUS March. 1915 Meeting of Va. Road Builders Association By GEORGE E. WRAY, Pilkinton, Va. The fourth annual meeting of the body nu-t in Rieh-moud Feb. 9 and 10. under the presidency of Mr. W. There were nearly 2.)0 meniliers present dur-ing the various sessions. After the usual preliminaries. Slv. R. C. Stearnes,state superintendent oF puljlie instruction, spoke onroad improvement in the relation to the public pointed nut tiiat France has enough first-class high-ways lo encircle tlie glolie
Southern good roads . Fine Koad in Bunromlic County, North Carolina SOUTHERN GUUU RUAUS March. 1915 Meeting of Va. Road Builders Association By GEORGE E. WRAY, Pilkinton, Va. The fourth annual meeting of the body nu-t in Rieh-moud Feb. 9 and 10. under the presidency of Mr. W. There were nearly 2.)0 meniliers present dur-ing the various sessions. After the usual preliminaries. Slv. R. C. Stearnes,state superintendent oF puljlie instruction, spoke onroad improvement in the relation to the public pointed nut tiiat France has enough first-class high-ways lo encircle tlie glolie fourteen times, while on aVirginia road the nearest and easiest way to reach theantipodes, is to go down thnuigh the mud and come outon the other side. In France a horse will draw ^i:!!!!! pounds f(U- twentymiles over a rolling Iountry while in Virginia i>ne horsedoes well to dra-w pounds on a levid i-oad. In ref-erence to the hmad highway wliich leads t 1 the school-. HON. G. P. COLEMAN, State Highway of Virginia, President of the Virginia Road Builders Association. house door he held that the consolidation of countryschools, a modern movement of great significance, de-ponds wholly on the roads. Consolidation and trans-portation are inseparably linked together. ilauyleagues of stone and sand-clay roads had been con-structed during the year and this had caused the en-rollment of thousands of interested children. 3Ir. G. P. Coleman, state highway conunissioner. gavea forceful talk :m necessary road legislation andamong the reconunendations made b,y CommissionerColemaji were provisions in the county or magisterialbond issue or in the genera] laws id the slate providingfor the nuiintenanee of roads after they have been con-structed, that tin automobile tax be segregated as amaintenance fund, and that the law lie amended so thatall of the convicts Il-oni the penitentiary could be usedon i-oad constiuetion work, and also that prisoneiS in c
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