Identifier: economicpapers2228unse (find matches)
Title: Economic Papers
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Publisher: Raleigh : N.C. Geological Survey
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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e annual expenditure of $50,000 for the maintenance of aState Highway Department, which would furnish engineers forhighway location, construction, bridge construction, etc. 10 PREFACE. That with the privilege of such aid the counties would be encouragedto issue bonds or raise money in other ways to construct goodroads throughout their borders. Shall we continue a system by which we are annually losing some-thing like $13,000,000, or shall we, by a direct State appropriationof a sum meager in comparison, check this drain upon our State andher resources? Certain proposed laws are given at the end of this report, which, ifpassed, it is believed will cause not only every dollar of tax money, ofbond money, and every day of convict labor, to be spent to the bestadvantage and thereby insure well-constructed roads, but will encour-age the various counties and townships to increase this expenditure,because they will feel that they are getting value received. Joseph Hyde Pratt, State Geologist.
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HIGHWAY WORK IN NORTH CAROLINA. CONTAINING A STATISTICAL REPORT OF ROADWORK DURING 1911. By JOSEPH HYDE PRATT and MISS H. M. BERRY. INTRODUCTION. There is perhaps no State in the Union which has so varied conditionsto contend with in highway construction as North Carolina. Extend-ing from the coast westward for a distance of over 500 miles, it em-braces within its borders every variation in topography from the low-lands of the coastal plain region and the rolling section of the Pied-mont plateau to the steep mountain ranges of western North Carolina.Similar wide variations are to be found in its climate and geologicalformations. All these conditions make the highway problems of thevarious counties more complex, and each section has its own problemswith regard to location, drainage, surfacing materials, and maintenance.Thus, according to the section of the State in which the county islocated, it is found advisable to use macadam, gravel, or sand-clay.Nature has come to our assistance,

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