The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-12-13
YOU OUGHT
TO KNOW
What Good Roads are AcCOmp-
fishing throughout the United
States.
KENTUCKY TO THE FRONT.

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The Bardsiown Pike, near Louisville,
XIV, is to be improved with asphalt
"stoney Lonesome" is the suggestive
name Of a free gravel road in Indiana
which has recently been improved at a
cost Of 81 400.
The Board ofPublic Works at Louis
vile, KY, recently announced that the
Newburg road would be temporarily /
repaired with crushed stone and gravel,
for the winter.
Good Roads Conventions were held |
last month at Waukesha and ManitowOc
Wisconsin, at which Generals Stone and |
Harrison were present and gave prsCti- |
cal instructions in building roads on
scientific principles.
Under the present road system in
Tennessee, each county in the state has
as many road commissioners as there
are civil districts in the county, elected
every two years. The terms OF the pres
ent commissioners expire in August,
1900.
It is reported from Williamson, KY,
that 3 miles Of new pike has been com
pleted and paid for in Grant county this
fall, at least ten more will be completed,
and the county will have 400 miles OF
free turnpike road, when all is completed
that the county has now subscribed for
Burlington, Iowa, has a new steam
stone crusher, with a capacity Of 20 tons
Of stone, giving that city the best equip
ment for road making OF any city in
Iowa. A quarry will be purchased aud
rock crushed during the winter and
stored, ready for use on the streets in the
spring.
There is a nice distinction between
the meaning Of the words "repar" and
maintenance" which every farmer
should understand. "Repai," means
which has suffered in cons, q1enCe of
faulty construction. Maintenance"
means to preserve the original conditions
and ward OF the necessity for repairs,
In France every freight and market
wagon is a road maker, with tires from
three to ten inches in width. -Four
wheeled vehicles rarely have tires less
than six inches in Width. The rear axle
is about fourteen inChts longer than the
front axle 30 that the rear wheels run
about one inch outside OF the level rolled
by the front wheels In Germany all
heavy wagons must have tires at least
four inches wide.
The Erie, Pa, Dispatch says at is be-
lieved that the extension by the Post
Office Department Of the rural postal
mail delivery serviCewill have a recip-
rocal effect in the direction Of good
roads. If the permanent plans are fol-
lowed in extending the service, routes
will be sell Cted where the roads are gen
orally passable in all weather In some
cases already, the farmers have willingly
taxed themselves to build good roads,
expressly to secure the mail service and
It is confidently expected the movement
will spread"
The Good Roads Society OF Chic coun
ty Kentucky, met recently in the Court
house at Hartford, KY, and adopted
resolutions endorsing the efforts being
made by the Agricultural Bureau of thii
state to procure for the people of the
state better roads. They also commended
the cooperation in this dire ction OF the
railroads and of the Louisville CONNER,
cial Club. They offer to furnish tn,
road metal free, II the railroad will give
It free transportation, for road from
Beaver Dam, KY, to the Court House a
Hartford, Ky.
, Through the data collected by tht
Office Of the Road Inquiry, Washington
D. O., it has been ascertained that iht
average cost Of hauling by team owe
, country roads Of the United States is q
. cents per ton per mile. For the sam,
cost a ton can be carried 200 miles By
water and fifty miles by rail. Itcosts Chi
American farmer three times as much h
haul his produce as 1t dOesthe European
3 farmer, because of the poor roads in thi
country This drain upon the agTiculIu
raj energies Of the country will continu
until the present annual surface treat
ment is supplanted by a syetem Of fun
. damental and permanent construction
A conference has recently been hell
in Louisville, KY, between Hon. % G
Harrison of the u. S. Office Of Road In
quirv, Commissioner Of Agrcultur
Lucas Moore OF Frankfort and Secretar
Van Pelt Of the Commercial Club for th
iurtheTance Of the good roads movemen
In Kentucky, Il was decided TO hold
good roads convention In December o
January before the adjournment Of th
Legislature, so that is results may b
presented TO that body. Mr.. Harrison
gave a synopsis Of the manner ia Whiol
the good roads laws we're enacted d
New Jersey. He says Kentucky is th
fnt southern state TO agitate for goo
roads, ia a business-like way. Som
7 Kentucky roads have already beef
3 built under direction of Mr.. Harrison
p and for permanenoy and durability the
have no superior. Henry CLAY was fore