The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-17
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ebert For County Roads.

One of the papers read before the
Alabama Good Roads Association at
the Birmingham meuting related to
the use of ebert on county roads. It
Is a material found In nearly every
part OF this district, and experts agree
In considering 1t the best of natures
material for road building. It is one
OF Alabama's natural endowments,
lying in great beds near Florence,
Fort Payne, Birmingham. Leeds. Bes-
semer, Admission, Jacksonville, and
perhaps a dozen other North Ala
bama towns.
While perhaps II Is better in the
larger towns to employ In road maxi
Ing former material, yet for use in
the smaller towns of this State and
on the country roads ebert is the best
possible material. 1t is easily mined,
requiring no preparation whatever.
1t wears we'll and smoothly. ebert
roads that are scientifically construct
ed call for practically no repairs, and
this cannot truthfully be said of
roads constructed from any other ma
terial.
The time is coming when a great
demand for ebert will spring up in
this State and in the surrounding
States. The good roads movement is
constantly widening and deepening
and when every county wakes up to
the value and true economy of good
roads the Alabama ebert will be in
demand. The present demand is con.
siderable, and the transportation
companies are beginning to give II
the attention 1t deserves.
ebert (. o. b. cars in this county is
worth about sixty cents ton, and
any locality can, with this price be.
fore it. quickly calculate the cost OF
needful supply. Contractors stand
ready to supply 1t. The quantity de-
posted here is practically inexhaustl-
Bile, and SO is need of good roads
throughout the South Birmingham
Age-Herald
A Chicago-New York Thoroughfare
A Chicago-New York national high
way may be an issue in the next Pres
idential campaign, according to DR..
Gardener s. Chaplin and H. Sargent
Michoels, two Chicago good roads en-
thusiasts, who stopped In Utica en-
route to New York. :. lth them was
Wallace Busch. also Chicagoan.
Mr.. Michoels talked of the pro-
posed highway, and asserted it would
be a general benefit to the people
along the route, to farmers no less
than others. The plan was to make
1t free to all except automobilists,
who should pay toll for the use OF
the road. the proceeds to be used for
maintaining the land.
Mr.. Chaplin and Mr.. Miehoels are
making survey of the proposed
route from Chicago to New York.
They use an instrument which they
devised and which will show a fac
simile of the ground to be covered
They started out with camera and
two hundred rolls of films. They are
using the camera in making their
survey and taking many pictures OF
the route. They make notes OF the
various conditions of the soil, the To-
cation of grades, stone quarries, sand
pits. etc.
Mr. Michoels believes that a ma
tional highway will increase The val
Tie of property in the rural districts.
He says that the highway would be
of inestimable value in such contin-
gencies as war, strikes on railroads
and other disturbances. He is con-
vlnced that within five years farmers
will convey their produce to the mar
kets by means of vehicles operated
by gasolene. He estimates that a
good macadam road, forty or fifty
feet in width, can be constructed at a
cost of from $4,000 to $4,000 mile,
and the distance from Chicago to
New York by the proposed route
would be a little more than 100
miles. The route would be directly
East from Chicago and would pass
through Toledo, where there would
be feeder to Detroit and to Cleve-
land. with three feeders running
out of that city to Erie, Buffalo. Ro'
chester. Syracuse. Utica. Albany and
down the Hudson River to New York.
New York Herald,
Doing Good Work.
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