The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-12-16

good road. Nearly every town has
set up repair shop for car and
there two or three men axe at work
most OF the time Tourists do more
or less small business in the towns
they enter. and at this season Of tho
year tourists are becoming rather
plentiful
All sections of North Carolina arc
not well endowed by nature for
building good roads at low cost "a
this cluster OF counties near the south
Carolina line. but il Is likely that
most Of the country from the Pied
| mont Eastward can lind enough ~
sand and clay t. put up 4 right passa
| ble track for a few hundred dollars
| a mile. Wherr such Is the case tn.
evidence afforded here in the sandy
country would indicate that i, is
worth while to have good roads and
| to get them quick
As Ia Complaints
| As for the insignificant cost. il - IA
rare 10 hear a complaint OF ii after
road is built as ii is 10 hear a com
/ plant of the road. The complaint that
| is made about public Improvement OF
any sort is usually heard before tn.
| Improvement is made Rarely after
| ward. for after the thing i obtained
nobody wants to let go IL for what II
cost.
In its ability u secure good roads
for such Z trivial cost as Is possible in
this State of North Carolina has q
tremendous advantage over the North
and West. Ten million dollars will
give North Carolina more miles Or
good roads than Pennsylvania could
, have had for several times the fnv
millions the State proposed to appro-
pirate for good roads. North Caro-
lima can build forty miles Of road for
, nAN ~ ia.
in Pennsylvania. The whole sum OF
fifty million dollars, which the voters
of the State refused to sanction would
not build more road in PENNSYLVANIA
than about twice much is here
in the vicinity OF Pinehurst build
, matter known outside of the counties
. that have built the roads
/ Difficult Beginnings.
L was not plain sailing when the
I | first good road was proposed In this
! | neig borhood The beginning was very
unpretentiouS and the people were
not willing to take many chances until
: SINE Of the experimental roads mad
been built by the private subscription
Of a few men who wanted road and
Z were willing to put up ten or fifteer
= = or forty or fifty dollars TO get one.
= One or two examples turned the
= trick. Then the taxpayer came into
1
!, on a bigger scale every day. Aions
! with him is still the private subscrip
- ton, for many men want roads fastel
:, than the tOwnShip~Or county can ge
. around to build them and il is foHns
:, that in many cases private enterprise
;s starts a road through a communit'
- and possibly gets considerable Of
:, built by the time the public road fore
has reached that particular territory
\ At nearly every meeting Of the com
= mlssiOners delegations appear from
districts that ask the location OF new
! roads in order that private enterprise
may begin to work on a public roa'
= which will be sure to be an authoriz-,
~ road. Many of their roads are grant
- ed in this way. and in course Of tim
49, they come to be good public roads
some built entirely by Subscription
and then turned over to the count,
others made possible Until the publi
le authorities can get to them for com
/ pleti0n.
~ it is pretty sure guess that N
~ road fever will become as acute a
- over the State as il is here. for ia
- Infection has passed out and it seem
= that whore IL is once introduced
-, never lets 90 until the malady ne
- comes general.
i'll a Northern man remarked 10 ~
l. Monday. You certainly have or
n thing in North Carolina, whether 20
10 have anything else or noi. and tia
81 IS good roads
id When he said 1t thought 10 ,rlysc
n il IS IIcky ne did not look as ove
ne from that view point four cr i've sea
ago when the good roads round h-g
III were about seven inches Of s.B,
TO bounded on the East and West i
T. wire grass, and populated b. s.umT
Id cut low enough 50 that not many {
hc them would take the step on ef =
rt buggy.