Identifier: southerngoodroad1914varn (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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ple. To set things right they issued a state-ment setting forth the following fair proposition tothe citizens living outside of Temple: Select your own men and go to the county com-missioners and agree among yourselves Avhere the eieh-ty-odd miles of roads shall be built in the country. Allof the funds will be available for the construction ofyour roads first, and then if there is any left we getour pro rata, or as much thereof as is left, to spend onthe roads inside the corporate limits of Temple—wemake you this liberal offer notwithstanding we of Tem-ple pay 52 per cent or considerably over half the mon-ey. Fair enough and then some! Mr. William H. Kershaw. Assoc. M. Am. Soc. C. B.,Chief Engineer, Paving and Roads Division, the Tex-as Company, New York City, on January 9th deliveredan illustrated lecture on Commercial Mining, Trans-portation and Storage of Asphaltic Oils before theGraduate Students in Highway Engineering at Colum-bia University. SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS Fel)ruary, 1914
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GOVERNOR H. C. STUART, OF VIRGINIA February, 1914 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS Governor H. C. Stuart Indorses Virginias Road Policy Hon. PI. C. Stuart, Virginias new governor, whowent into office without opposition, eitlier in the dem-ocratic primaries, or in the general election, indoisesthe road building policy of his state and promises totake an active interest in her road problems. In hisinaugural address, delivered before the Virginia legis-lature and thousands of patriotic citizens assembled tosee him inducted into office Monday, February 2, hehad this to say about roads: The co-operation of the state with the counties in thematter of road building, having passed the experimen-tal stage, may now be considered as a fixed policy. Theroads already built afford in themselves conclusive evi-dence of their value. In this day roads afford an in-dex to the character of the community, and largely

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