The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1915-05-27

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this proposition in an intelligen
manner, and men who would stant
up and insist on getting that which
is best for the common good of all
This commission should b.
caused to make bond for the prop
cr handling of this money. Thi.
commission will appoint an engi
neer and it is proper that the engi
neer give bond for the faithful
performance of his duty. If this
is carried out there is no chance
for any of this money getting in,
to any other channel than that Tor
which it is intended.
| The contract should be let en-
tirely on the unit basis, clearing
and grubbing by the acre,
grading by the yard and gravel
purchased by the ton, hauled by
the ton and spread by the ton,
shaped and rolled by the ton. In
this manner you have so many
clocks on the work that it is inn
possible for anyone to get that
which is not his due, providing of
icourse that your commission and
engineer are honest men. There
are plenty of such men in this
county.
| Locating the roads is very i'm
portant task of the commission and
engineer. These roads to be To-
Gated so that the maximum grade
should not exceed a rise of AZ to
S feet to the hundred feet. bear
ing in mind that it is no further
around the hill than it is over the
| hill. In other words the bail to a
bucket is just as long when it's
laying fiat as it is when it is stand
ing up. This greatly increases
the load of your team and will en-
able an average team to haul with
lease III to 5 tons per load. Re-
membering that on good roads
| YOU load Your wagon and not your
.er m.
There are two very important
things in any good road, one is a
good ditch on one side with plenty
of drains to lead the volume of
water away from the road and the
other, is ditch just like it on the
other side of the road. These
two bitches being connected in the
proper places with the necessary
culverts connecting them. These
culverts protected at each end by
concrete abutments. These cul-
verts can be made Of either
wrinkled tin. vitrifed pipe, or cast
iron pipe. They can also be made
of concrete. The tin being the
cheapest and lasting the shortest
length of time. The others cost
ing in price and lasting in the
raider named. In the average fiat
country a ditch feet wide and 2
feet deep would be ample. The
dirt from both bitches being
thrown to centre of the road. The
inside line of the bitches graded
down to almost the bottom of the
ditch. The entire crown being
shaped SO the face would be regu-
lar and continuous from the centre
of the road. This road should
not be under "a feet wide from the
inside ditch lines.
On your lesser travelled roads,
if it was throwed up in this man
ner and properly rolled from ditch
to ditch, giving a smooth hard
surface with ten ton self propelled
roller you would require an s foot
strip of gravel in the centre, because
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the travel would be so small that
the passing of vehicles would
amount to very little, and it would
be very seldom you would turn
out of the gravel road twice at the
same point. In the summer time
you would use driveway on each
side of the gravel drive but the
frst time it was muddy or slippery
you would automatically take to the
/ gravel road. Roads of this kind
always give ample room for al
the passing necessary. In the
summer time you save your horses
feet and also save the wear or
your gravel roads. 1t is the sum
mer time that hurts a gravel road
instead of the winter time