The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1907-10-18
I00D ROADS
THE PR0BLtM
Toe, # Road Machinery to
!. o. Made at Oslo tomorrow.
,,ut MOST IMPORTANT
&C, lww (ouni,'s Good Road
''' ,;es in Buildirg Same 1T
" Reasonable Cost.

anal test Of the roadmaking ma
which takes plac" at Oslo to-
'"" i m event which should be
, '.,IsJ by every citizen who has the
, ',.,ousts Of st. l.urie comfy at
., ,y nreparation has been made Tor
~, The big traction engine viii
..,rote its ability to draw six
''iI ,a,s over tine completed road,
,IA,nae itself in the sand with one |,
IA, trailer. Lunch will be provided
',M,dauce BY W. A. Neal, and every
Syis invited
Gather or not st. l.ucic county
aube progressive and enjoy the pros
,,u that his her due, depends upon
|. sd road proposition, And, con-
,sirg the inadeQuacy and futility OF
uinaking methods hitherto employed
| !, mpOsition of good roads rises or
Ar,upOn the success or failure OF the
.s machine tomorrow. This is not to
considered to mean that the road
,.rc machine at oslo is our last re-
N ior making roads, but our last re-
uh view of our limited facilities and
tares. The emperor Napoleon paved
|lsghvy with graduated sugar to
Nae his queen who prned for the
sw driyeways of her native land,
kM had plenty Of sugar and plenty
GnOney. II we have good roads we
bit get them at Il price the people
h afford to pay for them. The old
laand wagon way is too expensive,
| O. Fries conscrvatively estimated
HI paN built by that method would
w over 81, OoO mile. We have 10
bis Of road to build $3.50, Om, II
lHy big proposition for less than
'peOple to shoulder. On the other
Nd il is claimed that the rOad-mak =
y machine at Oslo will make better
tss at 81 900 Il mile than mules and
nNm will at 1000, because it rolls
pack the material as it goes. That
kD The original estimate in half and
hies the taX-paying public breath
SH But here comes an obstacle.
Takes the machine year to build
Smiles of road seven years to com
PIE the proposed system of ~ miles.
las too long to keep some of our
tncts waiting for return on their tax
@ey Thus the two alternatives are
wore the people pay $3.50, 900 for
l@ roads in comparatively short
1eor 10000 plus 100000 for the
@aAery and wait T years. But is
sNnO( some way of combining these
methods? If the machinery will
ssals claimed for it, it will pay for
N'Oy simply building 20 miles OF
%and what work it does after that
N''' TO the county. Why not let
."uacS Tor the roads of the county,
'"'og say 20 miles for the machine
~%Fsystem of good roads in Il reas
4'e Time, and save the cost of the
r'Nnery into the bargain? Our mile
N@ good roads will not always b,
u 70 20 miles. There will be plen
sme machinery to do -additiona
s@ one'hatf the old cost and thu
asinery paid for.
lure will probably be an additional
-, s< IN the matter Of letting out thu
,a aae's' The commissioners are no
~ mercy of the contractors will
-, machine to fall back on, and VIVA
''VS are let will be the very low
another III saving attributable to tn
,aaery' So 1t looks as if an invest
4 "a tne machinery will pay.
sm.. ~''e machinery itself, we ar
S,;. @ ~ Its representative, Mr.. Neal
is, "W''l not perform miracles. |
Ms "e'y constructed by human hand
r,.,s s@an ingenuity, and those VIII
Sr's. me demonstration tomorro,
H., "V " see the virgin rock fly from tn
s S@ Tie touch of button and resolv
Nh a "'o a mecadamized bOulevar
s@'s'es and touch.me-nots GROWN
ii ,"s, s'de' Like any other bushes
,,s 'sd Proposition must be manage
sM,'y IT it is made to nav. A thol