The record-union., 1895-05-07
CONCERNING OUR COUNTY ROADS.
Some Recommendations by the Farm
ers' Alliance.
A Memorial Submitted by the Com
mtttee Recently Appointed by
That Body.

For the first time since its existence the
mem bers of the State Bureau of High
ways. composed of NJ. Manson. r. C.
Irvine and j. L. Maude, appeared before
the Board of Supervisors yesterday, at
the request of the Good Roads Committee
of the County Farmers Alliance. Mem
bers Of the latter body were also present
in connection with the subject of the
proper management construction and
repairs to county roads.
j. E. Camp read a remonstrance
signed by sixty-six residents of the
Fourth and Fifth Supervisor Districts. to
the way the money is being expended on
roads therein. They objected to the
board allowing more than $25 for road
repairs in any one month, unless such
action be taken by the entire board.
The matter had been taken up by the
Farmers Alliance, at its meeting last
month, and Mr.. Mcmillan read a memo
rial prepared by the committee of the
Alliance to whom WAS referred the SUBJ
ject of the expenditures for road work.
it was as follows:
THE COMMITTEES MEMORIAL.
We, a special committee of the Sacra-
mento County Farmers Alliance and In
dustrial Union on Expenditures OF
County Road Funds, whose object is to
investigate all claims presented to this
board for labor performed on the county
roads, and to do every thing in our power
for the improvement Of our roads. beg
leave to say:
From our investigation we have found
the funds of our respective road districts
to be expended in an eXtravagant and
unbusinesslike manner. Money has
been expended and made amenable to o
one, but left wholly to the integrity OF
the party who performs the labor.
The construction and repairs on county
roads have been performed unlntelll-
gently and not insa good, workmanllke
manner, therefore leaving our county
roads in deplorable condition.
We have circulated petitions among the
taxpayers for signatures, praying your
honorable body Tor relief from the pres
ent management. 1t has already been
partially answered by resolution passed
at your last session when our petitions
were before the public for signatures, but
we have submitted them for the purpose
of showing the pub bic sentiment in rela-
ton to the same. ana we meet to-day to
confer with you In regard TO the future
management of our road, deeming 1t un-
kind and cowardly to attack without
submitting our opinion OF "a method OF
management and construction OF our
county roads for your criticism and for
your approval, amendment or rejection.
Our attack upon your management is
not to mallgn any member OF the board
personally, but is done in good faith and
for the betterment of our road system in
general.
ROAD NAP.
First, we would recommend q proper
road map of Sacramento County, show
ing correctly the location of all roads,
giving the name, length in miles, and by
figures and characters the location OF all
bridges, culverts, hills and ravines. And,
in connection Herewith, a field or road
book, under the name of the road, the
notes of survey of cuts and fills, bridges
and culverts, length and style of con-
struction and when built. Also. the
grade of the road. That is. the road of
the district that has the largest amount
of traffic to stand as of the first grade.
For instance, north OF the American
River the aggregate OF the assessment for
road funds would be about $25 exclusive
of the general road fund. there being
ninety-five miles of road in that part
OF the road district, which would
give over S26 per mile by giving all roads
an equal apportionment. But, by plac-
ing the Auburn and Marysville roads in
the first grade. and allowing $40 per mile.
it would give to the Auburn road (it be-
ing thirteen and one half miles, fund OF
500; to the Marysville upper road, the
length being about eleven miles, a fund
of $40, which is sufficient to place both
roads. if managed intelligently, past all
| complaint.
The Antelope east road, at $25; Green
back lane, $40; San Juan, Antelope and
Sacramento at Sl5. and so on, reducing in
proportion to traffic.
BUILDING ROADS.
There being no better soil and natural