Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-07-18
THOSE RESOLUTIONS.
Matters Resolved at the Good
Roads Convention.

Cured since the meeting Of the
National Good Roads Associa-
ton in this city on the Fourtl, of
July as to the import of the reso-
lutions passed. In order that all
may know just what these resolu-
tions are, we hereby submit them:
Be it resolved that we recon-
mend that the Board of Regents
of the State Agricultural College
of Oregon, located at Corvallis,
shall take into consideration the
establishment of a thorough de-
pa1tment of Engineering which
shall comprehend a special course
in educating the students how to
construct, scientifically, earth,
gravel, macadam and oiled roads.
We further recommend that the
next State Legislature shall make
a special appropriation to eq''ip
the Agricultural College with
sufficient and necessary funds to
establish a complete engineering
department, that the branches Of
road, culvert and bridge cor
struction may be thoroughly and
successfully taught; be it further
Resolved, That we commend
the attention of State, County
and City officials to the necessity
of utilizing the labor of all able
bodied, defective classes, who
are known as tramps and vagrants.
We believe all such unfortun-
ates should not drift at will from
county to county and state to
state and live in idleness aud
beggary. We further believe
that municipal, county and state
laws should be speedily enacted
! (where such action has not already
been taken)to arrest this timer
ant class under the vagrancy laws
and put them to work upon the
public streets and roads. We
further recommend that the con-
victs in the penitentiary should
be used in preparing material for
road building; and when it seems
feasible to the warden and Prison
Board the convicts shall be used
in constructing roads, thus re-
moving the labor of convicts from
the least known competition with
free labor. Twelve southern
states and some northern states
have adopted this method of util-
izing convict labor. We find
those states are building sub
stantial roads, economically and
to great advantage. We esps cial-
ly commend the course of the
states of California, Illinois,
North aud South Carolina, Tex.
as and other states, in using con-
vict labor in preparing material
and placing it upon the public
: highways.
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and
Gentlemen of the Benton County
Good Roads Convention: You1
committee on resolutions respect
fully submit the following: be it
5 Resolved, That the citizens o1
Corvallis and community fully
appreciate the courtesy and hon.
or conferred on them by the off.
GERS of the National Good Road:
: Association in the selection o
this city as the place for holding
: a National Good Roads Associa
| ton convention and the able ef
forts of the officers of the asso
: citation in presenting the, cause o
good roads to our people; be i
further
Resolved, That this conven
ton extend its hearty thanks Il
the Commercial Club, the City
Council, the Civic Club, the may
: or and other citizens of the cit,
and county for arranging for ant
, carrying out the details of thi
convention; be it further
Resolved, That we hearth,
I thank the railway companies Q
the west for the assistance the,
t have already given to the goo
/, roads movement, end we realz
, and appreciate their disposition
to, cooperate with US in the pro
!, motion of the cause of good rad
E upon which we are now enter
ing; be it
$ Resolved, That the citizens 6
Corvallis and Benton county IeI
s resented in this convention full
e the x,a1 111a aud 1fnpor'