The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1917-03-07
ENGINEER COMMMENDS IDEA
OF HAzEN-FALLON ROAD DAY
Offers Some Excellent Suggestions as
to Methods to Be Pursued In Max :.
ing Work Effective.

Ed. Standard:
Your proposal for a road day for
the communities of Fallon and Ha-
zen to work together on the road
between those places is to be highly
commended.
Good work can be done. Engi-
neers have quite often decried
such efforts as ineffective, but l am
not one that does so. On dirt roads
in particular nearly 100 per cent re-
turn can be had on the work If
properly organized. On dirt roads
the problem is on of placing cubic
yardage and getting a proper crown
TO the road. Individual labor can be
made very effective, though tractors
and graders should do all possible on
the rough work In perfectly fiat
country the graders can deliver very
nearly a finished job, but over our
irregular, cut up surfaces they have
not and cannot, and that is why we
need individual labor and can make
II effective.
The effort should be to have every
one irrespective of persons, to turn
out and work at elbows with his
neighbors Those whom circum-
stances prevent from attending
should be approached for sontribu-
tion of at least a couple c. dollars
and the funds so raised used to hire
engineers and helpers for the cater
pillar and graders and to hire stock
for fresno work One man should
not be asked to contribute more
than his individual labor for the
days. Those not out on the work
should subscribe the funds for
stock and equipment.
The success OF the work will de-
pend on the survey and laying out
of the work and assignment of the
forces The survey can be very
simple but complete. A car with
speedometer can go over the route,
stopping at each item OF work Tape
measurement can then be made of IL,
lath dag set up with station number
corresponding to speedometer mile
age and suitable stalking made for
the work. Tractors. road graders,
fresnos and laborers can then be
sent directly to their special assign
ments. Culverts should be ready on
the ground for placing. This of
course requires enumeration and
registering of the force to be depend
ed on.
The layout of the road as proposed
is excellent but 1t would be a great
mistake not to attempt to get per-
manent contour road laid out right
at the foot of the Swingle Bench just
to south OF Railroad. The road
should conform exactly to feed
ditch and drain ditch for the land
traversed and these bitches could
practically be completed through the
construction of the road itself. On
th1S OASIS the ONnti5 VI tuV piOpcit'
traversed should find it to their ad-
vantage to grant the required right
of way for the Lincoln Highway II
would be mistake to introduce so
much extra detour and needless
grade on a level straight line route
as would result from climbing the
hill.
A few nights ago in Hazen Mr..
! Coffin assured me the community
there was ready to do their part.
Let us at this end do ours. If we
have not got the road funds we have
got splendid road-building equip
ment and we have got the labor and
the means to put the equipment at
work on our road days.
The great mistake in road days
in this country is in having them
in late spring when the moisture
has left the ground. Work then is
very nearly just thrown away Good
earth roads can only be made with
moist material. Now is the time for
1t and | hope your valuable sugges-
ton will be acted on and bear fruit
for this community.
E. p. OSGOOD.