St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-10-05
THE GOOD ROADS TOUR.
Further Particulars of the Trip
Through Caledonia County by
the Lawmakers. :

the Lawmakers.
AS stated last week the good roads
tour, under the auspices of the St.
Johnsbury Commercial club was
made in seven automobiles contain
ing the following persons: G. A.
Calderwood of st. Johnsbury, S. F.
Cutting of Waterford, o. G. Wood
of Sheffield, George Shorey of Lyn-
donvil1e, D. M. Mclean of Wheelock,
A. B. Ward of DanviIle, J. K. Will
liams of Peacham, S. Mills of South
Ryegate, ]. G. Roy of Barnet, B.
M Bundy of Sutton, w. P. Russell
of Kirby, C. H. Brown of Walden,
M D. Coffrin of Groton and C. B.
Sternberg of Stannard, all town
representatives; Senators D. E.
Porter of ST. Johnsbury and S. E.
Darling of Hardwick; Editors John
b. Chase of Lyndonvi1le, C. T. Wal
ter and w. j. Bige1ow of ST. Johns
bury; State Highway Commissioner
C. w. Gates of Franklin and County
Highway Commissioner w. Thomp-
son of Ryegate; Lieut.-Gov. L. P.
Slack of st. JohnsDury; and w. J.
Aldrich, C. E. Silsby, L. j. Moore,
w. F. WEIGH, L. w. Hastings, Charles
Weeks, D. F. Gilman, George H.
Morrill,, L. F. Goss, w. D. Brockway,
H. w. Randall ana Joseph Fairbanks
of ST. Johnsbury.
The first stop was made at Barnet
Mountain where the state money is
being used to blast out the Lodges
and straighten the road so it will
be less dangerous. Workmen were
busy charging several large blasts
with dynamite. The party continued
down the river to East Ryegate and
then crossed to Ryegate Corner where
the school children and several
ladies were lined up to receive the
party and give bouquets to several
members of the party. The trip was
continued by the end of Harvey's
pond and from there to Peacham
where the authorities were putting
a piece. of stone roadway in the vii
lage. From there the run was con-
tinued to Danville, through West
Danville, South Walden and East
Hardwick. Somewhere in this part
of the run the tire burst on one of
the autos and the road was so damp
it was necessary to borrow chains.
This delay left the five inmates of
this auto behind the procession until
dinner at Barton. The rest of the
mornings run was through Green's
boro, part of Sheffield and Glover
on to Barton where dinner was
served.
In Sheffield Mr. Gates stopped to
inspect a portion of state road work
that is being done by that town.
This work illustrates the interest of
the towns in building good roads
along trunk lines. The section of
road being Strengthened and graded
and rebuilt is in a section of the
town very little used by the people
of Sheffield, but it is an important
section of the trunk line from Green's
boro Bend to Barton and to aid in
making this line good it's whole
length the people of Sheffield are
putting all their permanent road
work this season on that section. 1t
will be fine piece of road when fin
ished.
After dinner the party inspected
a $4,000 piece of road work which
is being done in Barton just above
the village to eliminate grade cross
ings by changing the roadway and
building an underpass. This was
rather rough experience. The route
was changed here and the party went
to Lake Willoughby in Westmore,
around the lake and through Newark
and West Burke to Lyndonville,
where a stop was made at Mr. Wallis
house. In response to questions Mr..
Vail said he did not believe the state
of Vermont could afford to build
stone roads or maintain them after
they were built. He said the cardinal
principles Of road building were to
get the water from under the roads
and then keep the top in shape so