Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-07-17
GOOD ROADS CAMPAIGN

MIR. F. c. Black Of Rhode Island Stat
College Will Engage in Hghwa,
Construction in This State.
The South Carolina Good Roads as
sociation meets this year i'll Spar
tanburg on August 7 and s. A large
attendance than ever is expected ant
matters of interest and Importance
to the public Of South Carolina vii
be discussed. The officers of the as
sociation urge that not only every su
pcrvisor in the, State be present bu
that as many of the county commits
sioners as possible attend, as well a
any who ere interested in the move
ment for improving the public high
ways of the State.
At the Spartanburg meeting will b'
some prominent and experiencedhigh'
way engineers. and the United State:
government will probably have rep
resentativcs present as we'll as th'
National Good Roads association
Mr.. Fingal C. Black, a graduate
civil engineer who has made spec
ialty of highway engineering for the
past several years and who was engi'
neer in charge of the construction ol
the vitrifed brick paving of Spartan
burg's streets which has attracted
wide attention will be present at The
meeting. Mr.. Black has for the past
several years occupied the chair OF
highway engineer of the Rhode Island
State College. He has resigned his
position there, to take effect Septem.
bcr l, and will probably locate in Co.
lumbia and practice in several coun-
ties of the State as consulting higl-
way engineer.
In the Rhode Island College Mr..
Black had a large class each year who
took special instruction under him.
Once year a practical demonstration
of expert road building was given, a
section of improved roadway being
built. This was gan important feature
of the instruction at the college and
the students werS benefited more pec-
haps by this thanIby the class studies.
South Cardinals Opportunity.
Mr. Black is very enthuastic re-
garding the sand-clay method of con-
structing public roads and thinks
that every county in the State should
adopt this method, "Thcre is no rea-
son." said MI. Black, "why South
Carolina can't build her public roads
cheaper than any State in the Union.
She has all the material necessary
in constructing up-to-date highways
right at hand, in almost every coun-
ty in the State, and with theproper
any county that has off
GERS who are at all concerned about
building a system Of good, substa.l-
tial roads should within ten years
have roads which would be second 10
none in the country.
"In the Eastmore attentions being
paid to the construction of roads T,
cry year. Competent engineers are,
by the various counties and
HE work of building the roads is pro-
ceeding along scientific lines. In those
States, and in the North and West,
where they have nothing but clay
they have to rely almost solely on the
road when they are after
a first class article. Not so in South
Carolina where sand and clay is plen-
tiful in most Of the counties and ut
intervals, necessitating
very little expense in the construc-
ion.
"Then again, labor is cheaper Iii
The South and where they have the
convict labor there is absolutely no
excuse for any county in this State
% continue to use the common roads
which are ordinarily seen in this Sec
ion. Richland county has demon-
;trated the practicability of the sand
,lay process and I hope to see the
work which was inaugurated here
several years ago continued until ev-
cry road in the county is in first class