Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-26
COUNTY WILL
VOTE ON GOOD
ROADS JULY 30
SUPERVISORS CALL SPECIAL
ELECTION
TO REMOVE ISSUE FROM POLL.
TICS, THEIR PLAN
Great Enthusiasm Shown When High
way Commissions Report 10
Adopted by the
Board

BY a unanimous vote the county
board OF supervisors yesterday AFTER
noon accepted the report of the high
way commission in which is recon-
mendation asking that an election pc
called for the issuance of bonds OF the
county Of Los Angeles for the amount
of $3,500,000 for the purpose OF carry
ing out the permanent road improve
ments specified in the report. Inc
election will be held July 30.
Chairman Thomas Farley or the
Good Roads association of Los An
geles county and the executive Doard
of that organization were present ana
after the acceptance of the report, they
addressed the meeting, telling of the
good work done In bringing the mat
ter to such a successful tissue.
Mr.. Farley was the first speaker. He
related the history of the good roads
movement from It's inception. NOW
that it has such good start, he said,
II was the desire of all to keep the
bond issue out of politics and that
could best be done by holding an cleo
tion before the primaries in August.
He declared the members OF the execu-
tive board of the Good Roads associa-
tion were a unit in the desire for an
early election.
The speaker then told how he had
canvassed the banks of Pasadena and
they all agreed that to eliminate the
issue from politics an early election
would be the best plan.
Election July so
After the other members of the Good
Roads association had been heard
from the supervisors carried the mo-
tion made for an early election and
July so was the date named.
Supervisor Alexander offered
lengthy resolution which In substance
was that the supervisors appoint q
board of advisers consisting of twen-
ty-hve members and to be selected
from the chamber of commerce, the
Merchants and Manufacturers asso-
citation, the City club and from the
boards of trade at the adjoining cities.
This met with great opposition;
in fact, every one present disapproved
of the idea, contending that the su-
pervisors and the highway commission
could handle the matter in manner
satisfactory to all. After much dis
cussion the resolution was taken under
advisement.
The main public highways recon-
mended for Improvement by the COM
mission are as follows:
San Fernando road. 30.91 miles; Whit
tier road. 14.15 miles; Santa Susanna
Pass road, 1857 miles; Wiltshire boule-
ward, TIA miles; Washington street,
NJ
Hermosa Beach road. 9.S4 miles; Los
Angeles. Wilmington and San Pedro
road, 1150 miles; Long Beach boule-
ward, 1881 miles: Los Angeles, Ell
Monte and Spadra road, 25.46 miles;
lIl Monte and Covina road. $40 miles;
Covina and Lordsburg road, 7.10 miles;
Foothill boulevard, 2097 miles; Eagle
Rock road, 4)miles; Glendale and Hol-
lywood road, 4.6S miles; Sunset boule-
ward, 4.92 miles; La Canada, Verdugo
road, 500 miles: Huntington drive, 2.69
miles; Sunset boulevard, LILO miles;
Compton to Clearwater road. 2SS miles;
San Dmas avenue, 1.5 miles; Holly
wood Toluca road. 5.02 miles; Mountain
avenue. Avenue Ga. 1.50 miles; Sierra
Madre avenue .45 mile; Downey Nor
walk and Orange county road, 11.62
miles; Huntington drive, Alhambra to
Arcadia, 4S2 miles; Monterey Pass
drive, 464 miles; Los Angeles and
Watts road, miles; Altadena drive.
1853 miles; Redondo and Wilmington
road, 7.S1 miles; Compton avenue,
Compton to Watts, II miles; Florence
avenue, 1.37 miles; Vermont avenue,
II miles; Gardena road. .S9 mile;
Manhattan Beach, 1.SS miles; Vernon
and Downey road, S66 miles; Long
Beach and Naples road, 2.73 miles: Cit
rus avenue, 2.S miles; Los Angeles and
Alhambra road, 1.3S miles, San Vim
cente boulevard, miles; Sixth street,
Glendale, "a mile; San Gabriel Mis-
sion road. .15s mile; Telegraph. La
miles; road from Whittier avenue to
Monterey Pass road, 1.66 miles; Val
ley road, 2604 miles,
Good Roads
The finished road shall present a
wide. we'll formed roadway, with
central area OF hard, unyielding, dura-
BILE pavement, with clean, properly
graded gctters on each side and guard
fences where required for safety on
emba nkments.
The central area of the highway for
the entire length, except across bridges,
shall consist of paving of protected
macadam or protected gravel held in
place on each side by shoulder or bor-
der. The entire width of the roadway,
including the shoulders or borders,
shall be properly and uniformly
crowned and finished with an average
cross-slope of three-quarters of an inch
to the foot from the cutters to the GEN.
ter of the pavement.
The sub-grade or base of the paved
portion shall be brought to grade or
proper shape, and when mud, adobe or
other unfit material is encountered 1t
shall be taken out and the space filled
with good sound earth or gravel, and
tha whole sub-grade thoroughly sprink-
red and rolled or tamped until it is un-
yielding.
on each side of the paved area of the
highway shall in general be seven feet
wide, formed of the best material avail
able along the highway, or from bor-
rowed pits. and wedgipg action of the
dry crushed rock of the macadam prop
err, and will not be applied in such
quantity as to form unstable cushion
on the finished surface.
The protected gravel pavement Is to
be used only where good natural
gravel soil exists and where the volume
and the character of the traffic to be
carried and the location of the road
will not Justify the heavy expense of
macadam road.
This pavement shall be constructed In
such a manner as to carry out the re-
auirements of the act of the legislature
under which the work is authorized.
namely, that "all improvements con-
structed under this act shall be of
durable and lasting character, and not
fiimsy or temporary" This character
Of Pavement Is recommended only for
the Altadena drive, so called. from the
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