The record-union., 1893-10-18
Rnunl Bnkiare 41ntuner.

In the city. he favored issuing bonds.
Let us have good roads and have them
now. the present generation is taxed
now for them, and the next generation
should pay its share. AS Mayor, he had
pushed forward improvements in the
city: now he wanted TO see the country
improved. He was tired Of seeing the
country people come in and steal the
streets of the city and carry them off on
their wagon wheels, and proposed to put
stop TO it by having macadamized
streets. lie was sorry, he said, to hear
any opposition to improvement. During
the four years he served as County Super
visor the city had always asked the
country what it wanted, and the city
delegation had helped it out. Now let the
country help the city-their interests are
the same. He wanted to have good roads
and would bear his share.
A country delegate defended the coun-
try roads and said he preferred the natu-
raj earth if it was not too wet and mirey.
IMPROVED HER TALENTS.
S. H. Jackman recited the parable of
the ten talents and said that Santa Clara
had improved hers, while Sacramento
had hidden hers in the ground instead of
using it. He had ridden in with a lady
this morning on the upper Stockton road
and she complained of the roughness of
the road, and women were good judges OF
WnaI are gOOQ roads.
WE WANT EASTERN PEOPLE.
J. f. Butler had had some experience
in making roads. We fix them one year
and the rain washes them out the next.
He favored bonds and was willing to pay
his share. The Eastern people will not
come here, as we wish them TO, and settle
among US If we do not have good roads.
Rooney and Menke, the great hop-rais-
ers; the Natoma vineyard, where they
raise such quantities Of grapes, say they
have no roads by which to bring their
products to market. We must have
roads, no matter what they cost, for the
good of the country.
He favored macadam and wanted no
gravel the stones of which are always
working up on top of the ground. We
want main trunk roads through the
county. Let us bond the county and
macaGamize them.
Il started early enough to get here in
time to-day" said the speaker, ''but
failed because there was so bad q road to
travel on" This county will never grow
better till we have good roads. Good
permanent roads will lessen taxation, by
enhancing values and lessening the cost
Of movement.
HOW GOOD ROADS ARE MADE.
r. G. Irvine was surprised that any of
his country friends opposed this PROPOSE
ton. The country and city should stand
together. Their interests are identical.
He had been interested in this subject
for the past year and was the first one to
read paper on good roads before the
Grange. He was not a practical road
builder, but had learned something of
the subject by diligently studying it. All
good authorities favor macadam roads.
BaSalt is the best material for it, trap
rock the second and granite third.
Sacramento County has excellent ma
terial. The cobble at Folsom is as good
as trap rock. 1t can be crushed and
graded into three grades by ma
it. Angular pieces of rock fit into
each other and make a solid roadbed.
Gravel and round stone will not, but hay
ing round sides press apart and work up.
be did not see why people were afraid of
bonds. We do not have to pay them all
and outright; but we receive the benefit
at once and all the time. In progressive
Chicago he did not know how much the
bonds are, but the tax is from five TO
seven cents. The only way in which this
money can be spent is upon the estimate
of a competent engineer.
We have heretofore done the best we
could, but have nothing to show for it,
Enough has been spent on the Twelfth
street road alone in the past twenty-five
years to have built it in solid masonry.
Let us have narrow roadways, sixteen
feet wide tracks and drain them we'll
they are the best and cheapest.
PROGRESS ADOPTED AS A POLICY.
The bond resolution as amended was
adopted with an enthusiastic aye, and
the whole series of propositions were
then adopted as a whole only three dele
gates voting against them.
Mr.. Woodson offered the following
resolution. which was adopted:
ReS0LUed, That an Executive Committee of
sixteen be created-eight from the country
eight from the city-with the Chairman Of
this convention added. That said committee
have power to carry out the purposes of this
convention, as expressed in It's declarations
and that it have power to reconvene the con-
vention If 1t deems it necessary. That il be
requested to consult with the Supervisors,
and that said board is hereby respectfully
petitioned to consult with said committee
MACADAM.
W. D. Lawton said that road of basalt
or trap rock was good for from fifty to
one hundred years of wear, but gravel
will not stand. Macadam forms a roof
and lets the water run off, leaving the
roadbed dry. He introduced the follow
ing resolution, which was adopted:
ResotUed That in the opinion of this con-
vention macadam is the only proper material
to be used in constructing permanent roads.
and that said roads when macadamized
should be sixteen feet wide.
The following advisory resolution was
adopted:
Resolred, That the attention of The Super
visors is respectfully called to the wide-tire
ordinance of Placer County.
On motion, it was decided that the
Chair announce the Executive Committee
through the press. The convention then
adjourned.
Throughout the whole convention the
speakers in favor of the bonds and good
roads and progress were frequently and
loudly applauded, and the convention
gave by its earnest manner the most con-
vincing evidence of the enthusiasm which
actuated II.
MidWInter Eair.