The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-07-11

vention is called to meet in Sacramento
September 7th. and Boards of Supervis-
orS IN all the counties OF the State are re-
quested TO send delegates to attend it.
The objects are to exchange information
and views on the subject of road making
and maintaining good roads; the best
methods; the influence of roads on the
cost OF farming; the different methods re-
quired in different localities, etc. The
committee calling the convention says
that from S268, 900 to 800, 900 per county
have been expended within the last ten
years, and that not more than 10 or 10 per
cent. of the amount expended can now be
found in the form of appreciable results
IN California. This can easily be believed
when everyone can see so much OF hap
hazard work done by unskilled men in
mere patching that has to be done over
ana over again to accomplish mere mo-
mentary relief Every farmer is put to
more expense every year to maintain ex-
ira horses and make repairs by reason OF
bad roads than he would be to make the
roads good. He continues to undergo this
expense simply because united action,
to make roads good at once and save
him the expense for all time, has not
been secured. This unity of action has
not been secured because no one has
hitherto seen fit to move in the matter,
and because, having always been used
gard them as an evil to be endured. The
movement to hold convention to cure
the evil is, therefore, a movement in
the interest of the farmers, and Boards of
Supervisors should send delegates to get
all the good possible out of it and do all
the good they can in that body.
Chino Valley Champion: a State Road
improvement Convention is called to
meet in Sacramento September 9TH. The
Boards OF Supervisors of every county
IN the State are asked to be represented,
as well as chambers of commerce, boards
OF trade, etc. A liberal discussion is to
be had of different kinds of roads, the
manner OF improving them and ways
and means OF securing such improve
ment. This is subject pregnant with
importance to all parts OF the country,
affecting primarily the agricultural and
horticultural industries, and incidentally
every branch of industry in the State.
1t IS to be hoped that this cali will be re-
sponded TO by the presence of a large
delegation of representative citizens, so
that the move may be popularized and
the best results attained. One of the re-
suits OF this convention, after careful de-
hberations, should be the drafting of
new road law for the State-something
based on common sense and calculated to
work an improvement in the condition
OF the country roads. Such an improve
ment Will stand vitality near the pros
perity Of every section of the State.
Stockton Mail: The State Road Con-
vention will meet in Sacramento on Sep
TENDER eth. The action of the convention
may be of the utmost importance to the
people OF the State, for few things have
more TO do with the welfare of a COM
munity than the condition of its roads.
There should be a large attendance at the
convention, and, with ali the rest, san
Ia fENrrNe fNv i -
SenLed.
Santa Rosa Democrat: The rapid sub
division OF land in this county is doing
more than all else to demonstrate its
capacity for varied production. The
small farm well titled is fast replacing
the early holdings of quarter and half
sections OF land. Men are now making Il
better living on ten or twenty acres than
the former proprietors realized from their
hundreds OF acres. The tendency to land
monopoly has been checked in Sonoma
County and subdivision is the rule.