The record-union., 1896-05-17
CITY AND COUNTY TO JOIN.
4 MaCadam Road to be Built From Here
to Folsom.
Part Of the Cost to Come From the
Road Fund and the Rest by
Subscription.

q macadamized road between Sacra-
mento and Folsom has at last mate
rialized into something substantial, ana
the prospect that the work will be COM
menced at an early date has been made
almost a certainty through a meeting
OF some of the representative men or
Sacramento and Folsom and the inter-
mediate country, which was held yes
terday afternoon in the rooms OF the
State Bureau of Highways in the State
Capitol building.
Supervisors Morrison and Curtis
were there and pledged $1,000 from
the general road fund of the Fourth
District, and committees from both city
and county undertook the task of raising
the other 1000, the estimated amount
necessary to push the road through to
completion.
The meeting was called to order by
j. o. Coleman, who stated its object,
and an organization was effected by
electing J. H. Burnham of Folsom
Chairman. Among those present were
the following well-known citizens:
Folsom-J. H. Burnham, c. Ecklon,
P. c. Cohen. Fourth Supervisor Dis
trict-T. c. Perkins. George c. McMul
len, John James, Charles Studarus,
John Studarus Joseph Routier, A. B.
Humphrey, William Curtis.
Sacramento-J. M. Morrison, Frank
Miller, J. w. Wilson, c. A. Luhrs, Geo.
3. Katzenstein, J. o. Coleman.
Bureau Of Highways. l.. Maude, r:
c. Irvine and Secretary ]. H. Watkins.
In order to get to work, Frank Mil
Ter moved that it was the sense of the
meeting that it was improbable the
State would build the road in ques
ton, and the motion prevailed unan-
imously.
The meeting now being able to grap-
pie with the feasibility of building the
road without assistance from the State,
got down to business.
CONDITIONS FAVORABLE.
George B. Katzensten pointed to the
fact that every condition existed favor
able to the building Of the road, and
when once it was built, with prac-
tjcally no expense, it might be main
tanned for centuries. A few years since
he had driven over the Prince of Wales
drive in Ireland. and it was as smooth
as a floor, yet had been in constant use
for many hundreds Of years. The ma
terials there, as here, were ready to
hand for repairs, and the cost for it's
maintenance had been reduced to a
minimum. There should be no half
way work about the construction of the
road. 1t should be SO built that it
would be an object lesson for the whole
State, and he should favor a resolution
providing that it was advisable to COM
mence building as soon as possible, in
order that road-building might be prac-
tically demonstrated.
AS TO WIDTH.
j. Q. Coleman thought it would be
we'll to first decide upon the width of
the road to be built and have the High
way Commissioners estimate the cost
Of building the same. He suggested that
a twenty four-foot roadway from the
Sacramento City limits to Perkins and
sixteen-foo way from Perkins to
Folsom would meet the requirements
and prove satisfactory to everyone con-
cerned, and he offered a motion to that
effect
Commissioner Of Highways ]. l..
Maude here offered few practical
suggestions. First, said he. find out
how much money you are going to get,
and build your road according to your
wealth. 1t is better to have roadbed
eight or sixteen feet wide than to have
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constructed in three sizes-single track,
or eight feet wide; double track, six
teen feet wide, and main thoroughfare,
twenty-four feet wide. The good road
problem in California hangs on the
success of the road in question. There
will be an attempt made by the next
Legislature to shut down the rock
crushing plant at Folsom, unless be-
tween now and that time there is a
practical demonstration of its utility
and economy, and the success Of this
road must be the object lesson to de-
feat that effort.
considering the expense" continued
Mr. Maude, 100 cubic yards of mate
rial Will be needed for every foot in
width one mile long. The cost of ton
of rock laid down at the nearest point
by rail is fifty cents. A cubic yard Of rock
weighs about $500 pounds and would
therefore cost about sixty-two cents L
estimate that the rock may be hauled
to the point needed at cost of at most
twenty-five cents cubic yard AL
this estimate, and 1 consider it lib
eral one, a roadbed eight feet wide may
be laid one mile for $500"
The grading, Mr.. Maude explained,
would be an additional item, which he
could not easily estimate, while the
cost for spreading and rolling the rock
would not exceed seven or eight cents a
yard. which would bring the actual cost
of an eight-foot roadbed up to about
SG5O a mile, exclusive of grading, or the
twenty miles of road from the city linn
Ats to Folsom for about $4,000. He ad-
yised the meeting to see what could be
done by popular subscription toward
raising the amount required.
Mr.. Coleman thought the explana-
ton of Mr.. Maude was favorable to the
motion he had made.
T c. Perkins of Perkins Station ad-
vised building a twenty-four-foot road
way even IL only a mile was construct
ed Make it wide enough and make
It right" was his motto.
FARMERS WILL HELP.
John Studarus, also from near Per-
kins. said there would be no trouble
about getting plenty of donation work
for hauling and grading. The farmers
would be glad to do the work, II II was
fixed so they would not be called upon IN
the midst Of a busy season. He, now
ever, believed that a twenty-foot road
way would be wide enough for all prac-
tical purposes.
EUROPEAN ROADS.
c. A. Luhrs spoke in favor OF SIX
teen-foot roadway. This, he considered,
was wide enough. In Europe the mac
adamized roads were but sixteen feet
in width and there was no need OF
wider tracks here. If a sixteen-1oot
road was all that was required in Ger
many. with an area smaller than Cal
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