Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-01-31
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Roads ana Road Making.
A correspondent in ncighborng town
wrote Us as follows recently:
There is a good deal sad, and well said too
In the FREE PRESS about roads and road max
iug. but if any body viii tell u how to get q
good road with this weather. unless il j. made
Of plauhs and suspended in mid air, that in
oiVid lal deserves to We made path master in
the most c-theticai district in town. It is
probable We might have a crushed stone road
a. "a cost of about a thousand dollars "a mile
but as time, are little hard and most Of our
money is loaned on Western mortgages, We
must deny ourselves that luxury.
This correspondent like SO many Others
concludes that inasmuch as crushed stone
roads at a cost of $1,000 q mile cannot be
had he viii settle down to the present CON
dition of things, and he does so with u
what-cannot -be-cured must beendured a il
that is really pathetic. In assuming that
the community in which he lives is saving
money by permitting the roads to become
mud ways, however, he is greatly mistaken,
Besides the direct loss in time, interference,
with business, and wear and tear of wagons,
there is the other loss in the depreciation OF
property that should not be overlooked
People will not buy farms ana locate il
communities where tie roads are almost i'm
passabe from three to six months in the
year. Something must DO done, and Yer
monters should wake up to realizing sens,
Of the situation. \ radical change in tn,
method Of road construction must be brought
nbout. Ploughing up the mud in the bitches
On either side and throwing it into the cen
tire of the road to become mass Of soft
sticky clay and mud has been tried To-
years, and has many times been proved
failure, both as regards the quality of tn
road and the expense of constructing or re
pairing it. Throwing brush and branche
Of trees into particularly muddy spots
satisfies the man who, with his team an,
tools, is working out the road tax, but i
makes a bad road worse The same is tru
of the method prevailing in some sections 0
throwing stones into these mud holes onl,
TO make the holes still deeper and more dan
gerous to the traveller.
But the most astonishing feature of thi
whole business Is that our communities q
on year after year voting money with littl
or no regard to the manner in which it shal
be expended. Whom man comes to ba,
piece Of road his first impulse is to curse tn
road. If it be an unusually long distanc
of poor road he directs his curses to the roa,
builder, but the road is rarel
50 poor as to cause him to ours
himself. And yet this same ma