Southern good roads . ntAvenue, , D. C. It is 35 years old. Some-thing more than 1, square yards of asphalt pav-ing in Washington, D. C, averaging 23 years of agshas cost cents per yard per year for Orleans has several 30 year old pavements. Buf-falo has 1,200,800 yards of sheet asphalt 20 years ofage or more and still in use. Among other cities thatcontribute to the census of more-than-20-year-old pave-ments are New York. Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati. Columbus, Detroit. Omaha, Charles-ton. S, C, Savannah and Louisville. Poul Lindhol
Southern good roads . ntAvenue, , D. C. It is 35 years old. Some-thing more than 1, square yards of asphalt pav-ing in Washington, D. C, averaging 23 years of agshas cost cents per yard per year for Orleans has several 30 year old pavements. Buf-falo has 1,200,800 yards of sheet asphalt 20 years ofage or more and still in use. Among other cities thatcontribute to the census of more-than-20-year-old pave-ments are New York. Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati. Columbus, Detroit. Omaha, Charles-ton. S, C, Savannah and Louisville. Poul Lindholm, Engineer of Highways, , has been awarded the Traveling Fellowshij)of the American Scandinavian Foundation for 1915-1916. He will devote the year to graduate work inHighway Engineering at Columbia University. The commissioners of Buncombe county, N. C, havelet contracts for six steel bridges, aggregating $8,-905. Charleston county, S. C. has contracted for a bridgeacross Stono river to cost $9, Sand Clay Road on the Asheville-Spartanburg Highway. The Picture Was Taken at the Buncombe-Henderson County Line, Looking Toward Asheville July. 1915 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS Land of the Sky Highways By N. BUCKNERSecretary AshevIUe Board of Trade ?A definite system of roads; start from somewhere,U-.) til somewhere. This is the slogan of the good roadenthusiasts of Asheville and Buneombe county. Infaet. there is practically a solidarity of this idea
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