The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-03-08
COMMISSIONERS TO
MAKE INSPECTION
Representatives OF Road Material Com.
psnles VIII Take County Board
Over Alabama Highways.

/ County commissioners. with the county
I engineer and others interested in road
| development will leave tonight for a
| tour of tho roads Of Alabama, which
has been arranged by representatives OF
the Kentucky Rock Asphalt company,
and members OF Warren Brothers COM
| pany of Boston, whose southern head
| quarters are in Birmingham.
The tour will be without cost TO the
county. and having been invited to take
| as their guests others who would be in
! terested in this development, they last
| night wired an invitation to Judge Phil
| lips. chairman Of the state road depart
nlent. They win also include in the
party a member of the Dixie Cement
company.
The tour is with a view to making ex-
animation of the various roads which
| have been built in Alabama by the two
companies whose representatives were at
the meeting yesterday, the Kentucky
Rock Asphalt company having been rep
| resented by @. T. Murphy and ]. L. Ly-
ons, and the Bitulithic company by ID. /.
Robinson of Birmingham.
The county commissioners at the meet
ing yesterday afternoon stated that they
felt that the trip would be an advantage
10 the county, in that IL would give to
the commissioners, the county engineer
and others who will make the trip, an
opportunity TO study the various kinds of
paving used in other parts of the south.
At the meeting yesterday morning the
commissioners were invited to make the
trip over the roads without any cost
whatever to Escambia county. and it
was decided yesterday afternoon to ac-
cept this invitation, and to include in
the party Judge Phillips, if he would
consent to go.
The question was asked at the meet
ing IT, in the event that either of these
pavements is used, this would eliminate
the use of gravel from the county pits,
Of which there has been so much talk,
and on which the Louisville & Nashville
railroad was asked to make a freight re-
duction in order that the county might
receive the benefit in carrying out its
road program. 1t was stated that in a
measure the use of the county gravel
would be eliminated. though it would still
be used for bridges and culverts.
II is understood that the Kentucky
Rock asphal and the bitulithic paving
would both be manufactured out Of the
state and shipped into the county
The commissioners We're also asked if
the freight charges on this material
would not be even greater than the
freight charges on material from the
gravel pits of the county, which has been
constantly mentioned as one of the
heaviest expenses to be borne, in build
ing the roads.
In reply. it was stated that this cost
would probably be counted in when the
contractors made their bids. and. fur
thermore, that the intra-state charges
are less, rroportionately than the inter
state charges.
Members of the board stated that
inasmuch as the trip would not cost the
county one penny, and that they felt
that it would be of great benefit to make
an examination of the roads in other
parts of the south, it was to the interest
of the county to accept the invitation as
the trip would be educational.
1t is their intention not only TO visit
the various roads which have been built,
but to make inquiries along the route,
and find out in every possible way not
only the most economical paving but the
best and most durable paving to be con-
tracted for, in order that the county
may spend its s1,5oo,OOO to the best ad-
vantage.