The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-02-01
FOR GOOD ROADS
s250,000 A YEAR
And Convicts to be As
signed to the Counties
ALSO ENGINEER CORPS

Delegates From Various Parts u
North Carolina Assemble in Isaki@h
at Good Roads Meeting and o"'hhe
Plan For Work to Give State the
Very Best of Pubic Roads.
Progressive steps for the building
~ GOOD roads in North Carolina We're
Yesterday taken by the STATE Hopu
Roads meeting held in RalelSh III TIE
hall of the Chamber OF commerce
there being in attendance men from
MANY parts of the State having III
terest in good roads. -.
The subject was III -
MANY phases. the men present at the
meeting showing that they were huilS
Informed as to the needs of the coun-
ties and the State. The principal ad-
dress by DR.. Joseph Hyde Pratt, the
State Geologist and secretary OF the
North Carolina Good Roads ASsocla-
ton. led the way to a discussion OF
the needs and the work to be under
taken. and upon these discussions the
resolutions adopted were
The resolutions adopted at the al
fernoOn session set out the need lot
having the State provide an adequate
IOTCt lOI tlISIIICCA1 III
the counties to assist in road and
bridge construction, for the use OF
State convicts on the county roads, for
q yearly appropriation of $250,0OO
from the general treasury for good
roads to be distributed among the
counties, which are to double the
amounts received, the money to be
used in good road construction There
is also urged that there be in every
equity a good rOadS association to look
after the interest Of the counties.
The resolutions adopted by the
me@tin@ were as follows:
giae Resolutions Adopted.
Realizing the great value Of good
roads in the Industrial advancement
and general uplift of the State, and
believing that the time has come for
the State to take some definite action
in regard to State aid, it is hereby
resolved:
That it is the sense of this meeting
that the State should appropriate a
sufficient amoun to make it possible
to give, through the Geological and
Economic Survey Highway Division
adequate road engineering to all the
counties in the construction of roads
and bridges.
That it is the sense of this meeting
that the best use trat can be made
of the State cOnvicts is in the con
struction of public roads, and that
counties desiring same should have
the first right to use them for this
provided, they pay to the
State a stipulated amount per day fol
each convict, the State to bear al
expenses of maintenance, care an(
guarding of the convicts. In %allottins
convicts, counties that do not maintair
chain-ganG shall have preference
III leasing prisoners.
1t is further resolved that it is h.
sense OF this meeting that tn STATE
should give to the counties composing
the State assistance in the actual con
structiOn of their roads,, and shoult
appropriate out of the general treas
ury for this purpose at least s250,0 90
annually, the said amount to the ap
pOrtiOned amongst the counties; pro
Vlded, the said counties raise tWic,
the amount allotted by the State; and
provided further. that such moneys a
are appOrtiOned by the State to tn
counties. and chat raised by the count
to meet tn State allotment, shal b
spent in the construction of publ
roads. whose locations and plans an,
specifications for construction are ap
proved by the State highway engineer
1t is resolved, also, that the Asso
citation take steps to secure the CO
operation of ali the county authorize
n various industrial and other or
CARNATIONS III each county: tina
copies of these r~esolutions be gener
ally distributed throughout the Stat
under the direction of the North Caro-
lima Good Roads Association. Tha
copies of these resolutions be sent T
all chalrmen of Board of County Com
m~issioners and Presidents of Goo
Road Associations in the State. an
that the be urged to organiz
Good Roads Association.
Our Senators and Representative
IN Congress are respectfully urged t
use their best endeavors to seen
national aid for road-building in tn
States.
Resolved. That the thanks of tn
Association be the Chanho