The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-02-01

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nucleI1s for others, and 1T is necessary
40 arouse the people to the needs
ct,+ aid in the way Of giving glnee
mo ass. stanc would be of great value
&c had been showed by results IN ne"
York.
Mr. Newton H. Smith. Of Fayette-
| Vile told of Cumberland being reduy
70 ioin in the work and OF what II
had done in the matter OF the auto
mobile route. The OUTLOOK Is 'ha''
Harnett county will do it's part III
building a road from LAii-nStoh w.
wards Fayetteville.
Mr.. William H. Williamson of Raj
eigh, spoke in reference to the value
of a permanent organization ana or
having matters presented worked out
by q committee. DR.. Pratt explained
that the meeting was one authorized
by the North Carolina 600 Roads AS
ISOLATION and that he presided because
of the absence Of President Hanes.
He presented for discussion the matter
Of State aid TO county building,
and as to whether North Carolina
could be induced to appropriate $3.50
600. a million or two million dollars
in the way of UGH aid.
Mr.. A. H. Henderson Of Caswen,
favored State aid, if engineers are
furnished SO as to make proper sur
veys. There are no worse roads than
those in CasweIl and the question is
how to improve them. He did not
favor State aid with only overseers to
look after the work. In CasWeI the
roads are torn up by heavy travel to
Danville from Alamance, Durham,
Orange and other counties. The
State should aid and by rights
Danville, which gets benefit, should
aid. Knowing Of "a roads he recog-
n zed the value to come from good
roads.
Mr.. J. A. Young. of Greensboro,
SPOKE for State aid to counties that
helped themselves and said more
stress should be laid on building
county roads than on through roads.
He spoke of Guilford's $500. 900 ap-
preparation for roads and the value
Of the example set in the building of
good roads.
Mr.. NJ. l.. Shipman, Commissioner
Of Labor and Printing, said he was
glad to see SO many present and that
there was agreement with the views
he expressed at the Good Roads meet
ing in Asheville. He believed in State
aid to counties that helped them
selves, just as had been lone by extra
State appropriations for public
schools, in the supplementing of local
lie LllGH pIGSCllltu Il TeSOlJ-
ton setting forth the value IF State
aid in the building of roads, which.
by resolution Of Mr.. w. H. Williamson.
was referred to a committe to con-
slider with other suggestions and reso-
buttons.
HI resolution of Mr. Shipman was
IN these words: Resolved, That it is
the sense of this meeting that the
policy of State aid to the counties
and fnNnChinC ir rooI
should be encouraged and the North
Carolina Good Roads Association is
respectfully urged to exert it's best
efforts to effect uch cooperation for
this purpose.
Mr.. Glenn Wright, Of Greensboro.
spoke OF the necessity of the educa-
tlon or the people to the need of good
ROADS, that when informed they will
faVor State aid He spoke of the hard
nght necessary in getting two votes
changed in the Legislature in order
70 nave $4,000 appropriated in North
carolina in the matter of preliminary
work on the good roads movement.
III toio OF n great appropriation in
Virginia Maryland, New York. ua
declared that good roads paid. that
the S5oo,00O voted in Guilford ie
worm a million to the county that
Sood ROADS paid in Durham. CASTOR
Buncombe and M~ecklenburg Ha
favored State aid in the service of
enslneers' or with ~convicts or with
appropriations and urged the elabora-
tion OF the resolution of Mr.. Shipman
Mr. Aft. "A. Thompson, of Raleipb
SPOKE OF the advance Of education in
North Carolina in ten years as the
people became informed and that now
a new school house is built each dav
lie held that there must be education
II lie matter OF good roads aid that
Is n G tho
Tor some years would he ~ ~ -
adequate engineering corps in the field
50 as 10 show what is best to be done
Inc people away from roads for u~hich
'Iey nave TO pay are kickers. Thara
anoulu pc education. Mr.. Thomnson
ana MI. Henderson had a humorous
u L,ualser as TO Caswell roads, Mr..
henderson declaring that Casweu did
work, but that it's roads were bnr+ -
OUTSIDE travel. Mr.. Thomnso, aa