Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1905-01-14
GOOD ROADS LESSONS
SCHOOL ON WHEELS TO TEACH
HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION.
Frisco Special. with Six Car Loads of
Road Building Machinery, VIII
Travel Through Ten states and
Stop at Ninety-two Towns.


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\ good roads campaign will be waged
throughout Missouri and the south this
fulIu nJ winter sneciol good roads
troi," win rolo tu., orr ,Lroo
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e!H'eiH' 1t Will NC S'IeiIuouS 'IuS"''e
against bad highways, the lnciplcncy
of a movement destined to spread
throughout the United States, says the
St Louis Post-Dispatch
\ dozen officials travelling in two Spe-
cal PuIlmans. with six car loads of
road building machinery and the nee
essary force of workmen, constitute the
train. The visit will take in ninety
two important trading CcnterS in ten
states ANA territories, and there will
be built sample macadam, telfOrd,
gravel or dirt roads at some of them,
and good roads conventions will be
held for the purpose of procuring good
roads legislation Back of this great
ttlQtnllOIaI movement are lllt nltcl
States governments the National Good
Roads association the Frisco Railway
company. n dozen manufacturers of
rondmakinr machinery and the De,ule
of the localities to be visited.
The train is provided Mt the EXPENSE
of the Frisco Railway company md ia
fully euuiDpcd for the sleeping and
md party for n trim of 2Oo miles
The Marty includes official renrespnto
tiyes of thp government ond Of the M
tionol Good Roads dissertation with q
CHANGING LIST OF sneaLars and oryoni
zers The fot cars in tho train ara load
ed with such roodmaking machinery
os graders scroners horse and steam
rollers rock crushers nIows d,tching
machines. elevator graders traction
aprinas otto
Tho oHcere op tho No+,oroI Good
Roads association ond the officials oS
tho rood danartmant Of tha govern-
ment who bove given wears of studv
to the suhfect and know everv nhosa
Of engineering and road construction
will he ON hand ot zach convention
There will also no nromtnant sneokars
incIudiry ynvernore mornh.rs oP CON
,,ress presidents Of uuivarstt,os and
coIIeres railroad officials engineers
md tbn loading officials inc,udino tho
movors and councils oP c;+,os in,.i+oa
to ottnrd and oddrass tha conventions
This comnoiyn In which oil cloeee, ore
TAKING mart s,veons throurh tha grao+
breodstntf cotton coal iron timber
and 1.-Two stool, sactiono Of tho r,,uh,io
Good roads con douhI. tho henofic,oI
results already attained Inv tho do
vaInnmont az Natural resonrcos for
good roads creote morkats The stotes
md tarritorias tbrouoh ,yh,ch tbo good
roads train will mass ora Missouri
Kansas Arl,onsos Indian Territory
oklahoma Teyos NIississipnf Ala
hanna Tcnnnssen and Illinois Some Of
these have n very heovv rainfall which
with the heavy rumbo and c,ov soils
md boa nuhIir roads nol,os urinary
travel almost imDossibIe during Iote
fail winter and snrjnr months.
In +ho dIfraropt nIoces whore tho
rovornmnnt 10 co-onero+ipp with tho
localities in huIlding object lesson
roads all kinds of road construction
and droIpore AFRO exemnlinad SnecIol
ottcntIon is qiven to the common
Garth which is tho hosis Of ou other
road construction Tho eorth road 10
nrorerlv graded or crowned md drain
ed Win bitches ON tho sides md drain
tile and tnoroughlv rolled with horse
and steam rollers
Nocodom telford Gravel sand
cun,ho and oil roads GRO olso con
structel In many localities whore
stone or gravel is NOT available the
substitutfnn Of oumho or burnt cIov
will be thoronghIv demonstrated on
onnlicd to surface of roads ia q mod
ern La,.ico hu+ hoe provod 70 no
cheop and snlcndid substance in con
nortion with rood imnrovemer+
At e,ch of tbe ninatv-two no,nts 70
no visitel I'm 10 many Govs q data win
hovo hccn sot tho ovort odvortiso1 no
n sort or outnmn n,cric on1 tho TOWN.
and country roo,io ,,.iu osson,,Io ~.
tbousords Eoch IoooI,t, vim Ia ~,
,o,tol 60 ,,,,tnu,,,.a go - sooo =.
ward tho evrnn,e of IA. ur1ortol,tr,,
and ,ftnr tI'o nrona,. a,t,,,,at,,,, ha,,
honr ororsaI +ia r,aod ra,,1,, ,,,.,.,,',,,
+io, vim no fo.,,,o, ,,,, o,.,,.,. ,,,,,,,
har viii NO osl,od 70 st,,r q rot,+,a,, =,
hi, ro,,rosa,,toti,.o l., ~ ',,,,,
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