The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-04-06
All For Good Roads.

The meeting of Highway Commission
err Stoddard b. Bates with the road com
missioners and selectmen of Windsor
county in the Junction last week is in
line with similar meetings throughout
the various counties of Vermont and can
not fail to arouse deep interest and slim.
ulate action among all true boosters OF
the Green Mountain state. The citizens
lof Hartford, with the substantial coop
Grafton of the Board of Trade, again
proved to the road makers that they
they were loyal Vermonters in this i'm.
portant matter of making the states
highways the best in the country and
were ready to lend helping hand in
pushing along the good work. 1t is such
CO. operation that encourages the highway
commissioner and his subordinates to put
forth their efforts for the best possible
results.
This good roads movement that was
really started by our present governor
and brought to fruition during his long
and efficient services as highway COM
missioner still claims the hearty support
OF Governor Gates and he loses no sppor-
tunity to ask the help and cooperation
| OF all business men in browning the eff
| forts of the road-makers with success
1t was on account OF the great amount OF
good accomplished by these county meet
ings during his own administration as
highway commissioner that Governor
Gates has so strongly sanctioned the con-
tinuance of these meetings by his sue
cessor
II is fortunate for the state that an
official so well equipped as Mr.. Bates
MAS ready to step into the breach when
the people of Vermont called Mr.. Gates
to the gubernatorial chair. The chief ex.
ecutive knew his man, for he was super
visor in the highway department of Or
leans county for eight years, under him
as highway commissioner, and the two
years previous he was road commissioner
for his town of Derby. So that as a
road maker he was contemporaneous with
Commissioner Gates in the 10 years that
the latter had so ably served the state
in putting Vermont on the good roads
map.
Governor Gates, as highway commits
sioner, bazed the way in building the
state roads and his efficient and economi
cal policy is being carried out by his en-
thusiastic successor. Commissioner Bates
convinces his hearers that he is thor |
oughly in love with his work and that
he has business-like way of dealing
with this good roads problem. With him
the motto is maintenance, for he believes |
that once a road has been improved il /
should always be kept in good condition
and never have to be rebuilt. We have
spent good deal of money in building
new highways and thanks TO the wise
financial policy OF Governor Gates. when /
he was commissioner, there is no bonded 1
debt for future generations TO pay. Now
we should see that these roads are kept |
up TO high state of efficiency. That i
the contention of Mr.. Bates.
Commissioner Rates has of course
large amount of new work in contempla-
tion, and Windsor county as well as the
town OF Hartford will get It's share. II |
may be interesting to many TO know
that, according 10 the official figures,
out Of $50 total miles Of highway in |
Windsor county there are 1872 miles OF
improved highway and 42s miles Of So
lected highway. Out Of l5.0sl miles Of I
road in the state there are 4252 miles
Of selected highway.-White River June
tion Landmark.