Arizona republican., 1913-12-25
MADE A STUDY
 OF BEST ROADS
Return of MessIs. Humbcrt, Lount and Jones from an Inspection of Scientific ally Constructed Thor oughfares i'll the East

More enthusiastic than ever on the subject of good roads and bristiing with information. w. $ Humbert. W. B. Lount and C. c. Jones of the auvIsOry good roads committee have returned from an inspection of scientifically built roads in Illinois, Michigan and Missouri. MT Humbert returned home on Tuesday night and Messrs. LOunt and Jones yesterday morning.
 Mir Humbert brought back with him several photographs taken of the Mich igan roads before and after improve ment and also photographs showing roads in process of construction. The members of the committee first went to Chicago and made an inspection of the Niles macadam road. They then went to Detroit which was their real objec- tive point and which is one of the chief centers of good roads in the United States. They were introduced to EdW. L. Hines one of the county commission CTS, q good roads enthusiast and called the father of roads of the type with which that region abounds. A part of the tour of the roads was made under the personal conduct of Mir. Hines
 The highways inspected by the com mittee were the Van Dyke road, the Seven Mile road, the Elliott road. Woodward avenue its extension, the
 Highland Park road the River road. the Grasciot road and the West Jefferson road All these are of concrete con struction
 The types of road inspected beside concrete, were brick pavement, Telford macadam. Watcrbound tarvia macadam. asphalt macadam. wood block cedar block and creasote block.
 The concrete was found to be of the best type. MT. Humbert said that was strikingly demonstrated in compari- son between what might be regarded as to sections of the same road The Highland Park road in Wayne county is constructed of concrete to the Oak land county line. The Oakland com ] missioners decided that they would put ! the Wayne county road builders to shame and at twice the expense per mile they constructed an asphalt con 1 tinuation of the Highland Park road 1 The traffic on the Oakland county road
 was the same as that of the Highland ] Park road but il has since gone to ! pieces while the Highland Park road i shows little sign of wear.
 ilt' " tSI U t+i son ibet'l 'pl tliltI = t' ] showed faulty construction and careless i supervision defects which have been ] remedied in later construction. The ! Grasciot road. built five years ago is ar 1 excellent stretch of highway but in re- ! ~ponse to an impatient demand it was : opened too soon and about two miles of
 1t was damaged.
 But here were some important facts
 gained by the committee. The sixty CT
 more miles of road mentioned above
 We're constructed from one to five wears 1 ago and the entire cost of repairs since
 that time has not exceeded S2000 Ar ! estimate has been made and a very
 accurate one of the traffic over the constructed roads. Counting the say { ing to farmers in hauling their pro duce to market. and not counting theil return trips they have saved enough tC pay for the maintenance of roads. l. meet the interest on the cost of con strUction and to create sinking fund Ncssrs Lount and Jones stopped q