The Prescott daily news., 1914-04-13

est and sinking fund charges on pre-
vious bond issues will amount to
100000 per year, besides the cost of
maintenance and, at the end of ten
years, the state will have little to
show for its expenditure Either the
road policy of the state must be
changed, he asserts, or the state faces
taxation charge equal to 81 for
every man woman and child in the
state.
The root of the trouble the governor
says, is the fact that New York fol-
lowed the lead of Massachusetts in
building macadam roads which were
admirably adapted for the light,
horse-drawn traffic of the nineties, but
utterly untitled to withstand the
heavy auto traffic of the present day
The remedy lies in recourse to hard
surface roads, among which he pre-
ferS brick, as the only material which
has demonstrated its ability to with
stand the test of time. The first cost
of such roads, he contends, might be
$4,000 per mile as against $4,000
for macadam. He adds
even if New York were compelled
to pay $25, 900 per mile for brick roads
it would be economy to build such
roads instead of macadam roads
where the state highways are subject
ed to heavy automobile traffic.
"The total expenditure for twenty
years on macadam road amounts
to $4,000 per mile. This includes
$12,000 for building, $4,000 for main
tenance and $4,000 for rebuilding at
the end of the first ten years.
THE total expenditure for twenty
years on vitrified brick roads
amounts to $4,000, if we allow
maximum of $4,000 mile for build
ing and $50 year for maintenance"
Gov. Glynn supports this estimate
with figures showing that a brick
road, properly constructed, will last
from twenty to thirty years and "have
admirably stood the test of the hard
est kind of traffic" The annual cost
he finds is remarkably low, ranging
from practically nothing from SO to
$50 per mile
He continues with recommendation
that New York shale deposits be util-
lied and that prison labor be employ
ed for economy's sake.
The admirable argument for per-
manency might be enlarged by point.
ing out that not merely economy hut
use is enhanced by such means, Fv,
if it were cheaper to make ruts in a
road every year and then fill then, at
the end of the year, no one enjoys
driving through temporary ruts OF
dropping into chuck holes even q ..
ton of the time.
A dozen other states have come II
the same conclusion that New York
is now forced to face Some OF them
have been fortunate in reaching it
without so much expenditure for i'm
permanent roads. New Yorks mis-
fortune was that of accepting the Wis
sionary suggestions of the theorist,
the desire for experiment and in fol-
lowing the accepted road practice of
dozen years ago-a practice which
had been developed before the day of
automobile and had little or no rela-
tionship to the conditions of power
traffic.
"The total expenditures for twenty
years on a macadam road amount to
S36, 900. This includes $4,000 for
building, $4,000 for maintenance and
$4,000 for rebuilding at the end of
the first ten years"
Gov. Glynn further says:
"The total expenditures for twenty
years on a vitrifed brick road amount
to $4,000, if we allow a maximum of
$25, 900 for building and $50 mile for
maintenance.
"On these OUTSIDE figures the
difference in cost for twenty years be-
tween macadam and brick roads show
n balance of $40 600 in favor Of the