Southern good roads . ts. .Many such statements were received, accept-ed and tiled as the following: Leceived .-1 Spent $ < ir. the following true copy of a settlement: Koat work on Roat Teastriek 15 Took ub one Colbart ant luit him l)ake ant the work a mound to $ ant 2 joint of 12 in Tile at (io pease ant Fraite waseant hlaito ant all -Joeaniound 155600 (ompaie these staleiiiiiits with those now made tothe count\ highway engineer which contains the datewlien funds are received, from what source received,amounr expended and where and how spent. In somei-ounties the e
Southern good roads . ts. .Many such statements were received, accept-ed and tiled as the following: Leceived .-1 Spent $ < ir. the following true copy of a settlement: Koat work on Roat Teastriek 15 Took ub one Colbart ant luit him l)ake ant the work a mound to $ ant 2 joint of 12 in Tile at (io pease ant Fraite waseant hlaito ant all -Joeaniound 155600 (ompaie these staleiiiiiits with those now made tothe count\ highway engineer which contains the datewlien funds are received, from what source received,amounr expended and where and how spent. In somei-ounties the engineers have effected a saving of twen-ty per cent by regulating the purchase of implements;uid materials. In one instance the county engineerfiHUid that (uily about ten per cent of the district roadfunds of Miie district was reaching the roads. A nine-ty per cent 1 iss. not through graft, but by slaclv meth-ods. Ill culvert ^v•(n?l^, for example, one of the engi-neers, upon taking the office found a contract for. Stale .Aid Work. Monougalia County, West Virginia SOUTHERN GOOD ROAD? April, 1011 .i; -worth of lumber to bridge a braueli. He can-celled the contract and pnt in a concrete culvert withsufficient waterway for .+ in an examination, onone occasion, for improving V-i mile of road I found oneIS inch tile culvert for a drainage area of 40 acres ofland and a 6 foot culvert for acres. These are only a few examples of what may he cor-Iccted by good supervision. All names and localitiesare purposely omitted. It is difficult to change thecustoms and habits of a century but it seems that ifany tax payer, in many of the states, woidd take a lit-tle time for investigation of road affairs he coidd notobject to knowing that his taxes were being spent withsome resemblance of skilled supervision. Maintenance. Good roads nuisi not only l)e Iniilt, but they nuist hetaken care of ai:ter they are built. One great tlefectin our road work is the lack of maintenance—iiK
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