The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-21
GEORGIA HAS GOOD
 ROAD MATERIALS 5 Limestone, Chert, Shale and Sandstone Are Abundant GRAVEL IS PLENTIFUL Atlanta Is Preparing to spend the Money to He Obtained Through the
 Fig Bond Issue and Plans Are
 Being Worked Out
GRAVEL IS PLENTIFUL

Atlanta. February 25.-(Special.) )-Geor- gia is well supplied with road building materials. according to State Geologist s. W. Metallic, who has made a special study Of the subject. and has gone more intimately into it since the state began it's most recent agitation for road im- provement.
 Prof. Metallic divides the state into three divisions. by lines drawn through 1t from northeast to southwest. The first he calls the Paieozioc area, in the north- western section of the state, comprising only about ten counties, in which the principal road building materials are lime stones, cherts, shales and sandstones. Of these the 1imestones are the most prolific, though the cherts and sandstones of this area however, are easily worn or crushed and are of little value for road building. especially where the traffic is heavy.
 In the second region. known as the Piedmont plateau. the principal road building materials are granite, gneiss, diorite and trap-rock. or the harder stones used in macadamizing. Gneiss is far moro abundant than granite, and is regarded a much more suitable road sur facing material. Diorite and trap-rock are also considered splendid materials, some qualities of the latter, 1t is said, having no equal for the purpose. These stones are we'll distributed and almost any county in the region which desires to secure them for macadamizing pur- do rxrffb raj ffx-a11- short haul.
 Down on the coastal plain. which is the third of these divisions, the chief road building materials are limestone, clay end gravel Shells are also used in the ei- cinity of the coast. The limestones of south Georgia outcrop at many points throughout the coastal plain; they are exposed most abundantly along the streams or in the vicinity of lime sinks or lakes. This limestone has ben 'lsed to advantage on streets and roads both in south Georgia and Florida.
 The gravel deposits are most plentiful along the northern border of the coastal plain, crossing the state from Augusta, through Macon to Columbus. This gravel makes the most substantial and satisfae- tory road in this section, though the mix ture of sand and clay, which is most used has been found to give splendid re- sults The state is well equipped with road building materials and it is only a question of getting them to the roads.
 Atlantn's Bond Issue
 Atlanta has gone to work to spend that $SOOO, o0O of bond money voted last Tuesday, as if there were some chance of its getting away from her.
 Or course, it is impossible actually to spend the money until the bonds have been validated. printed and sold. But there are other things to be done
 The school board has gone to work to locate new lots for schools and is secur- ing plans for the remodeling and improve ment of old buildings.
 The engineering department has taken to the field with all it's instruments a9,d is busily engaged in gathering all possible data and information relating to the work to be done, so that immediately the bonds are exchanged for cash hundred picks will be ready to strike the ground.
 .he water department is similarly busy calling for bids for new pipe and plan ming for the laying of new mains.
 By April. at least not later than May l, it is anticipated hundreds of hands will be busily employed on the work which in midsummer will be well under way.
 The demand that Mayor Robert F. Maddox should stand for reelection was the natural outcome of the success of the bond issue It was only at the last ses- sion of the legislature that amendment at4 ot, ting the same man to serve two successive terms as mayor. Prior to that time mayor could be elected for only one term. The amendment was secured with the ob- ject in view Of retaining MT. Maddox as mayor for several reasons. He is an able and successful business man, and has given the city thoroughly clean and business-like administration. He knows, perhaps, more about the bond issue than any other man in the city, and then, again, he could not be beaten, and the city would be relieved as to the possibili- ty of an undesirable candidate winning the election.
 But MT Maddox is obdurate. Newspa- pers chamber of commerce, citizens gen. erally, have urged it upon him as pa triotic and civic duty, still he declines. l1e feels that he owes something to his family and business associates, and hav- ing given the city two years Of his time against his will. he emphatically declines to serve another term.
 Those who know MT. Maddox best say with him the matter is settled; that he positively will not yield, and there is an end to 1t.
 This, of course, means a campaign for mayor this year. probably a many-sided one.
 Already there have been two tentative announcements one of them conditioned upon the non-entrance of MT. Maddox into the race. One of these is Col. E. E. Pomeroy, of the Fifth infantry regiment, who has seen considerable service in the city council and who has stated that he would positively be candidate provided Mayor Maddox would not run.
 Attorney Fletcher Quillian, likewise several times councilman and alderman, has announced his candidacy in an in formal way.
 There is every reason 10 believe that former Mayor James G. Woodward, who WAS beaten by Mir Maddox after he had been nominated in the primary, will get back into 1t for vindication. pr. T. D. Longino, the real father of the bond issue, has long wanted to Dc mayor and it is more than probable that with an open field, he will be one of the candidates.
 Capt. J. W. English and, several others have been prominently men'ioheo' ana with Mayor Maddox out of the way there is every probability of a four, five or even six-cornered race.
 So that Atlanta will probably furnish A little political activity this year, even though state politics refuses to warm up. Railroad Demurrage Rule | The reciprocal demurrage rule of the | railroad commission figured in decision l handed down by the supreme court this