Southern good roads . We there-upon set out to find a more permanent anddurable material which would approximate in first costthat of a macadam road, and the result has been theadoption of concrete for most of our county roads. Ina sense, the idea is not original with us, concrete hav-ing first been used in this country in Bellefontaine,Ohio, on some of the leading streets as earh as 1893,which are in good condition today, with practically nomaintenance charges against them. Other communi-ties throughout the country have laid experimentalconcrete streets and roads which, in all instances, areg
Southern good roads . We there-upon set out to find a more permanent anddurable material which would approximate in first costthat of a macadam road, and the result has been theadoption of concrete for most of our county roads. Ina sense, the idea is not original with us, concrete hav-ing first been used in this country in Bellefontaine,Ohio, on some of the leading streets as earh as 1893,which are in good condition today, with practically nomaintenance charges against them. Other communi-ties throughout the country have laid experimentalconcrete streets and roads which, in all instances, aregiving satisfaction. We have devised numerous im-provements in the detail of the specifications and meth-ods of building concrete roads and believe that wehave come near to solving the question of good coun-try roads that are low in first cost, low in maintenancecost, durable, dustless and sanitary. We are buildingconcrete roads at a much lower cost per mile than NewVork, Pennsvlvania and other states are building or-. IJ,y^ V ^^^J ^ Macadam Road in Rowan County, Near , North CarolinaBuilt by Convict Labor dinary macadam roads. Last year wo built a little ov-er two miles of concrete, with a view to determiningits practicability in this localit}-, and AVoodward ave-nue road, which carries an enormous traffic, has beenin use nearlj- sixteen months now, during which periodit has not been touched by way of maintenance work,in this respect fully meeting our expectations. Theother experimental roads of concrete show the sameresults, although they have not been in use for as longa period as AA^oodward avenue road, and unless thefuture shows marked defects, we shall use concrete asa standard type of AA^e have Ijeen the recipients of many communica-tions and have been visited by numerous delegation,*of interested road engineers, commissioners and otheipublic officials and private citizens who have heardthrough various channels what we are doing, and manyare prepa
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