The record-union., 1893-11-15
PERMANENT ROADS.
The County Asked to Construct Sev-
eraI Trunk Lines.
According to the Acknowledgement.
Counties May Vote to Issue Bonds
For Such Purposes.

The Executive Committee the County
! Road Convention met yesterday after
noon in the chambers of the Board OF SUI
pervisors, Hon. VIM. Johnston presiding.
There was large attendance.
/ The session lasted two hours, and in
volved a most interesting debate. The
most earnest interest was manifest
throughout. To give the detail Of the
debate would be to present ses seral col
umns of matter. These conclusions were
arrived at, after a most careful and ex-
/ haustive consideration of the problems
involved:
First-Ihat it is the sense of the coi2l-
mittee that the county should at general
expense construct, as the initial of good
road movement, certain trunk lines of
permanent roads beginning and extend
| ing by radiation from the county seat.
Second-That the committee will ask
the Board Of Supervisors TO submit to
| the V ote of the people of the whole county
! the proposition to construct such roads
! by the issuance OF bonds at five per cent,
! payable within forty years, TO the extent
of $50 900, the sum to be used in build
| ing seven lines of trunk road In five di-
! visions OF the county.
Third-Tbat the fund so raised should
be used in this order:
| Division l-Sacramento to Arcade, four
| miles, thence on the general lines of the
Antelope and Marysville roads, To the ex-
| tent of log per cent. of the money, or S4I,-
666
Division 2-Sacramento to Perkins,
thence on the Jackson ana Placerville
roads, to the extent OF 80 per cent. of the
money, or S75.0 900.
Division 3-Tne Upper Stockton road,
| to the extent Of log per cent. OF the
money, or S4l ,666.
Division 4-The Lower Stockton road,
to the extent OF log per cent. of the
money, or S4l, 600.
! Division 5-rhe Sacramento, Freeport
and Walnut Grove line, to the extent of
70 per cent. of the money, or $4,000.
The Committee on LegiS alton reported
that the Attorney General OF the State
had passed on the question submitted to
i him and had decided uuhesitaLingly that
the county has the right to issue bonds on
all the county, when two-thirds OF the
voters so authorize, for the purposes par
ticularly specified in the call, and that the
money so raised cannot be used for any
other than the specified purpose, and that
purpose may be for building trunk roads
| at general cost of the county.
The Committee on Education reported
that the county press was in harmony
Win the purposes OF tne movement.
The Committee on Store and Trans
portation submitted samples of trap rock
| from Solano County, and stated that
proper rock taken from near San Fran
cisco Bay, such as used in San Joaquin
County, could be delivered at Freeport
or Sacramento for 81 50 per ton, un-
| broken.
A letter from Kern County was read,
asking advice as to material to be used on
roads, and stating that Kern had Just
voted S250,000 Of bonds for general road
construction.
All the committees were continued and
| given more time.
A committee was ordered to prepare
! specifications as to the kind of road con-
struction that ought to be adopted. The
Chairman appointed Messrs. II. Vein
| stock, John Miller and r.. c. Irvine as
such committee. The name of w. b.
Dixon OF Costumes was submitted by the
! Chair. to take the place of w. c. Sheldon,
as member of the Executive Commit
tee, and it was confirmed. The commit
| tee then resolved to meet weekly, to wit,
each Tuesday, at P. NJ. at the Hall of
| Records, or in the Assessors office in the
/ Court-houSe