The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-10

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 53. Perry eounty: Road from Marion toward river. Being done by contract. Character gravel. Expenditure ss0oo. 54 Pickens County: Road from Carroll tor toward Pickinsvile Survey Il miles. Road being done by contract. Char acter sand-clay. Expenditure sSoOo
 55. Pike County: Survey made from cation changed from road aid to bridge aid Bridges steel and concrete. Ex- penditure SS000.
 56. Randolph County: Road from Ro- anoke to Rock Mills. Work contracted. Character top soil. State $4ooo county, 5000: citizens of Roanoke 5000. Expendi- ture S10,OO0
 construction of two reinforced concrete bridges, one 90 foot span arch bridge contracted to cost $560. Amount of ex- penditure sSOO0.
 5s. St. Clair County: Application filed and work beginning this week. Chert road
 59. Shelby County: Road from Calera north. link in Montgomery to Birming- ham road Work contracted, character chert. Citizens of calera raised s4o00 Expenditure $500.
 60. Sumter County: Road surveyed Liv- ingston north. No bids received Applf. cation changed from road to bridges Contract for steel and concrete bridges let.
 61 Tallapoosa county: Road from Dadeville to Horseshoe Bend, II miles, Work done by. contract. Graded earth road. Money raised by private sub scription $4000. County put in bridges and culverts 5000. State s4000. Expen- diture, s10,000.
 62. Talladega county: Road, Talla- dega toward Sylacauga. Work done by contract. Character, gravel. Expendi- ture, s12,00O. Survey, 5h miles.
 e3. Tuscaloosa county: Aid given on steel and concrete bridges. Work done by contract Expenditure, $S000.
 GA. Walker county: Road, Jasper and Parish. Graded earth contracted to MT Musgrove He builds four miles for s8O0O, and If any profit he agrees to put money back on road. Part of road from Fayette to Jasper.
 60. Washington county: Road sur veyed. but no good bids received. Ap- plication changed to bridges. Expen- allure, $S000.
 66. Wilcox county: Road surveyed. bids received but county would not let contract; said had no funds.
 67. Winston county: No application
 Fifty-six counties have applied for state aid. Operations are going on in i6 counties, that is, either work has started or surveys are being made. The amount of money involved in the opera tions is $395,500. This includes two years operations, 1911 and 1912, and they cannot well be separated, as t number o- counties are using two years appropriations at the same time This expenditure is being spent on ap proximately ITO miles of road and IT bridges. The state has paid out to date on road work $56,000. There are IS resident engineers In the employ ment of the state. They are taking care of from one to four counties.
 Of the work going on roads are sand clay; roads are graded earth; 5 roads are top soil; roads are chert; ? roads are gravel; roads are macadam; counties are using bridge aid.
 Mrs. Miller Speaks
 Mrs. Cora Miller of Tallapoosa told the convention of her experiences in promot- ing the highway from Dadeville to Horse- shoe Bend. Mrs. Miller was responsible for the building of this highway and donated $2O00 and the land at Horseshoe Bend for it's construction. Her remarks were very interesting. She is the only lady delegate present at the convention.
 J. R. Kennamer president of the Ala bama Mine Workers, spoke in favor of working the convicts on the roads and said that it was inhuman to send con- victs into the mines where there was a great danger of being killed. There Is not another state in the union that has the convict system as it exists in Ala bama today" said MT. Kennamer. We are going to pledge the candidates to the next legislature to vote for the abo- 1ition of the present convict lease sys- tenn. and we will heed no longer the argument that the convicts are a source of revenue and that the state must have the money
 Senator Johnston was still unable to attend the convention.
 Yesterday afternoon the question box was opened and some 30 delegates asked questions which were answered by w. S. Keller A general discussion was held at this time in which the entire conyen- tion took part. Et versity read an interesting paper on The Importance of Highway Education yes- terday afternoon J. A. Wilerson, Frank Fesler and Professor Davis of the State university also spoke yesterday after noon.
 The reports of the nominating and res- olutions committees were read last night and the following officers elected for the year:
 Officers Elected
 President, John Craft of Mobile; first vice president, J. W. O'Neill: second vice president, H. K. Milner; third vice president, J. H. Bankhead; fourth vice president. o. W. Underwood; sec rctary. J. A. Rouptree.
 The district vice presidents elected were as follows: First district, Lee MacMillan of Wilcox; second, D. R.