Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-01-15

pay the DOnueu QeDt as IL matureu
would soon wipe out the debt and
probably in fifty years would practical
ly give either free water or by the
charges for water greatly relieve the
other burdens of taxation.
Incidental to this the commission
should purchase and control the forest
land in upper Passaic, covering about
10000 acres.
1t is a matter worthy of careful con
sideration whether our state alone can
do all that is necessary TO protect the
water rights in the hills Of the north
ern part of our state. The boundary
line between our state and New York
uns through these hills. The streams
from which VI supply Is to come rise
In New York, and II that state does not
join with us in action to conserve
these waters and prevent their pollu-
ton the results may be serious. If the
two states could act by a joint commits
sion and take over the $4,000 acres or
more of watershed within New York
and the like acreage in our own state,
the results would be a protected supply
of great value.
Consolidation and Abolition of Offices
I recommend the abolition of the In
spectors of the state prison. l recon-
mend that the board be abolished and
its duties transferred, II any transfer
Is necessary, to the warden and SUI
pervisor respectively, as may be proper
l strongly recommend that the bu-
reau of statistics of labor and indus
tries be merged into the department OF
labor.
Experience has also convinced me
that there Is no reasonable excuse for
the continuance of Ave members of
the state water supply commission
This should be a department under a
single head.
l also think that there are too many
oyster commissions In the state and
that there should be a bureau with q
single head having charge of all the
oyster industry In New Jersey. The
legislature should do everything In its
power to foster the oyster industry
and nothing will be of more benefit
than the creation of a responsible de,
partment and the putting iii operation
of a system of leasing the oyster lands
Of the state.
Inland Waterways.
l earnestly recommend that provi
sion be made for further continuance
of the work of the department on in.
land waterways by the proper appro
priation and hat a canal be dug be
river. When this canal Is completed
the headwaters of Barnegat bay will
be salt and about 1900 acres of oyster
lands will come into use. At present
the water at Bay Head is not suffi-
GENTLY salt for oyster propagation.
Steps should be taken by the legisla-
ture to request the congress of the
United States to open M%anasquan In.
let and dixie and protect 1t so thai
ships of quite heavy draft may find 8
harbor In the Manasquan river and
Smaller craft use the Inlet to approach
the canal and Barnegat bay, and thu
on down to Cold Spring Harbor at Cap
May.
Public Roads.
If possible, the state should tax.
over, with the consent of municipal
ties, of course all of these roads which
may be considered through highway.
from the chief points In the state ant
maintain them. 1t has seemed to me
IL the counties and localities con
sent, that it would be wise for th1
state to have transferred to a proper
body to be designated for that purpos,
the maintenance of all the Highways
connecting the various county seats O.
the state with one another. This woulC
make a continuous roadway under
maintenance by the state of about 74i
miles.
A strong movement has been started
by residents along the New Jersey
coast for an ocean boulevard from tho
Highlands in Monmouth county tt
Cape May, in Cape May county, the
idea being to eventually have a high
way by the sea from the one point t.
the other. What this road would NEAR
to New Jersey one who has not giver
it serious thought cannot comprehend
1t would be 1877 miles in length. TIL
state possesses no greater asset for the
benefit of it's people than its seacoast
and everything should be done to built
1t up.
l recommend that a commission bt
created consisting of the governor, the
president of the senate, the speaker O
the house and the state road commits
sioner, who shall have authority Il
take over all highways herein referred
to from county seat to county seat anC
along the proposed shore boulevard
route, that they may be maintained by
the state through the state road de
partment without expense to the local.
ties through which the roads pass, tht
control of the surface of these roads
being transferred to the commission by
the local authorities. All the revenue
derived from license fees for automo
biles should be given to this commits