Identifier: southerngoodroad1911varn (find matches)
Title: Southern good roads
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Varner, Henry B North Carolina Good Roads Association
Subjects: Roads Roads
Publisher: Lexington, N.C., Southern Good Roads Pub. Co
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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but thathe considers it to be an interesting idea. Representative Stephen B. Ayres of N.W Y(Ukwrites from the standpoint of a motorist: I have just returne<l from a motor trip of ps.,0 peiuliture in thi: congress of the Pnited States, undertiie Constitution, that it is not wisi for congress to en-ter upon the construction of the highways in the Unit-ed States. Senators Lodge of .Massachusitts. Smoot of Ptaliand Perkins of Califm-nia. while not committing them-selves to the national aid idea, express a great deal ofinterest and iiroiiiise to give the matter their mostcareful attentimi. To ship wheat from New York to Liverpool—3,100-1005-6, cost 3.S cents per bushel, or L(5 cents miles and realize more keenly than ever before how miiis- ^ ,, . , , ,■,,,, -i f much o-ood roads mean to residents of the rural local- less than it cost the farmer to haul it !).4 miles fromities. Li the State of New York we have proposed a farm t,. railroad station. i6 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS November, iqu
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PRESIDENT WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT A Regular Member of the American Association For Highway Improvement, Who Will Deliver the Opening Address at the First Convention in Richmond, Virginia, November 20th. November, iqii SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS 17 First Annual Road Congress of the American Association For Highway Improvement and Affiliated Organizations To be Held in Richmond, Virginia, November 20-23, 1911 Upon invitation of tlie Maym- .-iiul the Clianiher ofCommerce of the City of Kieiimoud, Commonwealthof Virginia, the First Annual Road Congress of theAmerican Association for Highway Improvement andits affiliated organizations will he lield in that citv No-vember 20-23, 1911. The coming Road Congress will bring together theforemost engineers, road otScials, traffic experts, legis-lators, railway officials. maiinfa<-turers. cdntraetors.and agricnltnrists, wlm will diV(.t< tlieir seriiuis at-tention to the vari nis and important problems of roadconstruction, maintename. and administration

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