The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-03-26

as You so plan he said. You
have about $4,000 in his county for
building Gcod roads. Yet l venture
10 say that You are not able TO build
many permanent roads. thorough
fares that will stand up during such
weather as You have had. By the
pay as YOU go method, YOU can't
nave good roads everywhere. If
You read that article from Eir. ".
l.. Wigs, our road superintendent.
IN this mornings News and Observer.
you Will find two words that tell the
whole story, patch work. He show
ed that there are $50 miles Of pub
lie roads in Wake and 1900 cross
ROADS. Why are there so many
miles? II is because new roads are
made on Q of the old bad roads.
BY your present method, a little
macadam is put down. worn away
and patched over in the same place.
Year by year the patch becomes
greater and the repairing more ex-
pensiVe. You will never build good
roads that way
How it Can Be Done.
DR.. Pratt said hat with $4,000
Tor good roads great results might be
accomplished If the road commission
would require $4,000 to be pat an
nually in permanent roads It would
TAX years, but it can be done. But
with conditions as they are now. can
it be doneo l think not. / believe
u bono issue is the only way.
Would Raise Taxes None.
1T would be possible to build a
hard surface road within reach Of
every farmer of Wake, l believe,
upon a bon issue of $500, 600. |
have gone over Orange county and
calculated that an issue Of $25O,0OO
would do the same there. And by
that I mean that q graded road would
10 h,1Jt l--l 1880
and a farmer might pull to that ma
cadam The same load lie would
carry CNer it.
1t would raise your taxes not q
cent. The interest on these bonds
would be only $4,000 and by the
creation Of a sinking fund of s5,1sS
annually, thus providing for the re
tirement Of these bonds. This would
leave $4,000 for maintenance. BY
this plan, you roads would be bet
ter maintained and in forty year:
the bonds would have been retired.
DR.. Pratt spoke of the way t.
handle such a fund and said tina
such an amount should not be dis
orrscu exert in the most sensibl
way. An expert engineer must b
chosen. He a heard many opin
ions as to the sandclay roads Whicl
t We're tried SO much last year. Som
l of these opinions he said. "wer
that the sand-clay roads stood u
better than the macadam. Other
were that they had gone all to pieces
$ IN every instance of soins
: pieces" he continued. "it was be
+ there had been Door grading.
: lie cheerea the audience with til
assurance that Orange county ha
. carried a bond issue over the a.
V couraging tradition against. "Io
can do it in Wake, if you viii
A half million issue is not a gtea
one for Wake county and it Wou]
! not raise your taxes a cent
n Rev. DIR. G.. ". Lay.
It Rev. DR.. George W. Lay spoil
r next. He began by declaring again
it per OF Mr.. Wigs. Telling briefly
o the implements Of the county road
he hunorOusly remarked that Wht
g a mans ~trousers became a series
n patches, he soon grew tired of
and Finally he has a bono issue al
3 buys him q new pair Of trousers
= Dr.. Lay spoke Of the mud-taX, Il
le tribute of wear and tear, poverty al
d ignorance paid to bad roads. I
a had heard Il great dea1 OF the site
"a in~-the-nlud." tie never knew VIII
w it was. 1t couldn't mean the m;
Sc who gets stuck in the mud, for tn
IF happens to the best Of men som
times. " does not mean hose W
IN always are in the mud, for som
ri times it cant be helped. But
d definition was that of The man W
wouldn't get out Of the mud if
could, if thai getting out helped !
"a neishbor.
~ DR.. Lays address was entire
- practical and dealt with the subjt
in an every day way. At its clio
3 the nouncemen was made TT
on rev b,,.b +b.., u.,13 ~ "a,
70 OpticOn lecture.
- Colonel Smiths Lecture.
~ The lecture of Col. 4. F. Smith
ar Fayetteville, at the Grand, a pictt
a show, was most interesting. Il "
%, marred also by the weather and
:, the lateneSs Of the hour. which &C
,rt ficted with more than "a lick and
promise to each view.
The slides shown were made fft
views Of roads taken when il n