Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-03-05

t inches deep, and Of gravel eight
! inches deep. These roads are made
, under the supervision OF road com
I missioners. The building of the
, roads is let to road builders who have
all of the necessary machinery and
t appliances and are experts in the
business and can make roads easier,
cheaper and faster than can posi-
bly, be made by the counties them
selves. / thing we are as well pre-
pared today for the making Of per-
l manent roads as we will be in thir-
4 .ty or forty years hence. think our
legislature should be urged to pass
a law at the present session to give
the people of each county an oppor~
tunitv,s to say by their vote whether
they wish good roads or not. Some
counties may turn it down and Others
may issue bonds, Take two of these
| counties situated as nearly alike as
possible. In the@eane theYssote to
bond the county and build%yerm anent
roads and in the other they turn it
down on the ground that they are not
prepared for good roads. After wait
ing and using the dirt roads for twer-
ty years, they are where they We're
when the others started to build per-
manent roads and the other county
has had the use Of the good roads
all that time; and it has cost them
no more annually for the good roads
than it has this other county which
is usin~ nothing but dirt roads.
The cost OF building good roads, OF
course, depends upon the kind, and
nearness of material to the road to
be built. II gravel is near, tits the.
cheapest of any material that can be |
used. If no gravel and plenty of |
stone is near, then crushed, stone |
should be used, and il macadamized |
roads are preferred, crushed stone
and asphalt will have to be used. In
some PLACES, where neither stone nor
gravel are found, a cement road may;
be built, and probably at no greater
expense than macadamized road, II
built but nine feet wide. In some
counties CT this state, particularly on
the Missouri slope, they are lacking
in material for permanent roads. but
the time may come when they VIII
find something, which, united with
the bluff deposit, will give them per-
manent roads. Perhaps cement viii
do, but il the law is passed, author
izing the bonding OF counties, no
county is obliged to take a vote on
the question. /1ne counties "nefe
the material is at hand could take a
vote at once and by midsummer
could begin on the building of perma-
nent roads, and we would have the
Jaw, so that whenever a county dis
covered that they could get material
at reasonable cost they could then
get a-vote on it and would not have
10 wait for another session Of the
to pass a law.
have seen a bill for the making
If good dirt roads, which, under
stand, has been agreed upon by
conference committee appointed by
10Th houses of this legislature, and !
win probably be passed soon after
he present recess. This is. undoubt-
edly the best bill that can be passed
or dirt road, and will be the only
me which will probably be necessary
n great many Of the western coun- 9
les Of the state for many years to Z
,ome, because of no good material at
IAN for that purpose; but that fact {
ought not to prevent the many coun-
les in most parts of the state from II
having the right to pass upon the 9
question of bonding their county, D
where there is plenty of good ma Il
erial at hand for such purposes. n
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