The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-09
TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1922
GOOD ROADS CONVENTION

So extensive has the road building industry become in this country and so vast IS the future program of highway improvement that the Thirteenth American Good Roads Congress- and Fourteenth National Good Roads Show to be held in Chicago next week promises to mark new epoch in the nations develop nent Both events will be held under the auspices of the American Road Builders As sociation, the oldest and largest good roads organization in the country, and the one that has brought about so much Federal and State aid in highway development.
 Approximately one billion dollars are now being spent annually in the United States for new roads and streets, a sum far greater than was spent for railroads during thelr greatest era of expansion and sufficient to build half dozen Panama Canals. NotWlth- standing that the road building program IS so enormous highway improvement still l2&s behind development of highway transpo!ta ton. The development of the automobile and the motor truck. according to highway off c;als and automotive engineers has forced good road construction until 1t IS difficult now to tell whether automobiles are causing the increasing demand for better roads, or whoth- CT good roads are responsible for the mcrcas- ing demand for motor cars. About $l ,2OO,O0o,- GOO will be spent in America for roads and streets this year and about $1,3oOOOO,OOO Will be spent for automobiles and trucks.
 All of these questions will be discussed at the Chicago meetin@. together with such sub iects as methods of financing road improve ment, safety on the highways, progressive methods of construction, obligations of high way departments to the public traffic reSn- lat;cns, results of testing the various types ot roadway, development of apparatus for testing roads, the use of local road building materials, suberade designs, hauage methods in high wav construction, time losses in completing new roads, road building in winter, highway maintenance, salving old roads, tourist tratf'c as a factor in highway development, changes needed in motor vehicle legislation, highway research and cooperation between state and county highway departments and between en- oineprs and contractors. In cOn'Hnctlon Wlth the Thirteenth Good Roads Congress the American Road Builders Association, the Na- tonal Crushed Stone Association, the Mld- western Section of the American Association of Civil Engineers and several other organlza- ton will hold their conventions in Chicago during thc week of January 15.
 One of the features of the Fourteenth Good Roads Show will" be a mammoth exhibit by the United States Bureau of Public Roads lr which the Government will set forth every thing it is doing in the way of highway con- struction. An attractive feature of the exhi- bit will be large model illustrating the type of highway the Government is building in the National forests, the road Model being supple mentcd by colossal painting in oil to form 8 background for the whole. Models of bridges and roads at various stages of construction will be on display at the Government exhibit as we'll as new testing apparatus, numerous charts showing the progress of Federal ao work and a large assortment of road materials
 Unless all signs fail the year 1923 will witness more