The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-04-12
LECTURE ON GOOD ROADS
Samuel C. Lancaster Appeared
at Court House April s.
Views Presented of Noted Highways
of Ancient and Modern Times
Object Lesson to Follow.

Lancaster Monday night at the court
house to listen to his lecture on good
roads. Mr.. Lancaster is consulting
engineer in the department of agriculture
at Washington, ID. O., and spends large
portion of his time in lecturing through
| out the country on road making. 1t is
one he thoroughly understands, and
those who listened to him Monday night
cannot but be impressed with the i'm
| pOrtance of it, as we'll as have a better
understanding of what should be done
in order to obtain good roads. His
lecture was illustrated with stereopticon
| views, which, OF themselves, provided an
evenings entertainment of great pleas
ure. 1t is easy to understand from this
why the government is deslrous that the
school children throughout the land
| should attend these talks, for they have
presented to them in correct form the
most noted as well as the most beautiful
| highways OF all the civilized peoples OF
the earth, forming an object lesson never
to be forgotten, although most that the
speaker may say may pass from memory
| or not be fully understood. And this re
mark will apply equally as we'll to those
mature in years.
Mr.. Lancaster was introduced by A.
M. Scott, president OF the Commercial
Club. Pictures were thrown on the can
vas in quick succession and their loca-
| ton told by the speaker. Roads that
| we're made before the birth of Christ were
| first presented. Several pictures Of the
roads of the Romans, the greatest road
| builders of ancient times, including the
| Appian Way, we're next seen. He took
| his hearers along the wonderful high
| ways of Switzerland, in England and
| Scotland, in France and Sweden. All
| these countries have magnificent high
ways, and as master road builders have
no superiOrs. Large sums are expended
| in making roads, but they are made on
scientific principles and are permanent
| Inheritance to follow generation after
generation. France he considered the
| leader in road building Of all the nations
| OF Europe. And it is a good Investment.
| People come from all parts of the world
| to travel on these roads, and this tourist
| travel brings millions of dollars every
| year into the Golfers of the nation, more
| than sufficient to keep the roads in re
| pair and to make new ones. England is
| the next great road builder OF the world.
| The many pictures presented the mag
| nifcent highways that seem to ramifv
every part OF the English isle and was a
revelation to behold. The roads in
| England we're first made by the Romans.
| While they were great road builders the
| English improved and built after them.
| 1t is impossible to visit even an English
colony without noticing the effects of
| their road building. To illustrate this
part of his subject several views Of high
ways on the island of Jamaica, one of
the West Indies, a colonial dependency,
we're given, showing the work done in
the iungles of the tropics. Many of the
beautiful roads in southern California
we're presented illustrating the uses OF
| oil in making and keeping them in re-
| pair. Los Angeles county alone has
| spent millions of dollars on roads, And
it has been the most profitable invest
ment the people of that section ever
made But it is impossible for US to fol
low Mr.. Lancaster through all his
travels, as much as we should like to
and as interesting and instructive as it
proved to be.
| To reach the meat in the kernel this
was given to show what can and has
been done along the lines of road build
| ing by other nations and what can and
should be done in this country. Mr..
Lancaster considered the road law pass
ed by the last legislature the very best
possessed by any state in the Union.
| 1t is copied after the New York law,
which state is making rapid strides along
these lines. The Gazette would suggest
that every citizen get a copy Of this law
and make himself acquainted with it's
details There is nothing that will make
people homogeneous and more con-
tented than good roads. 1t is said to
have been the great civiIizer of all ages.
Mr.. Lancaster pointed out that We had
at our doors the best material for max
ing roads. The rocks from the over
hanging cliffs around US passed through
the crusher, carefully laid and then rolled
will make road that will last for ages
and stand the hardest usage. This is
the merest glance at his interesting
lecture, but The Gazette expects to re
turn to the subject oftener in the future.
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