RCIA OR RT RE
GOOD ROADS
Missouri Road Convention,
A jargs and havmonions conve
in 8: Lonis spent two days in
ing the road question,
questions were the
means of improving the |
est method of ntilizing the #19
eriminals, misdemeanauts and tran
ahd plans for sntapission to the La
fature. A committees of fies
"appointed to suguest 8 meth
tare procedure.
Tt. was resolved that
counties in the Riste which are an
i thorized to levy a tar of sicty cinis
for county purposes be asked to set
aside one-third of it for road bnprive
ment. If this wes made law, good
vouds would be hunt, 8 resolution
was adopted asking the sabmssion of
8 constitutional swendoent
ting county conrts fie increase
levy for road purpses and an
resointion in favor of a Bate Highway
eornmissiaon, The Missoni Eoad lie
provement Asgaciation was invite 4
unite with their orjanization, and
was decided to hold the next
tion in 8t Louis,
NOTES, ©
Ta Locate Fonds Properiy.
The importance ef locating ms ron
sorrectly at the outset, ardoiding Y
sompetent surveyors and thorough ex.
amination, can hardly be
mated, Whers repurts are
viewers to sone superior body wi
whom ths final dessin rests, it 1s
| great importance tint the viewers :
liberal minded, intellicent and public
spirited, and that one of them sl
always be a thoroughly competent on
gitieer. A fall report of every exuin.
| tnation should be wade, and should
sontain sufficient dat to make y pos
sible to base an intelligent and aseu-
rate opigion on it
ii Deputy Secretary of Agrienltin
Jolin Hamilton, of Hamilton, Penn
ta endeavoring to sesnre belter work
‘in this direction, and has prepared the
following form of report, with the
Jeet of securing fall and expli
‘raation in saswer to each ue
: ROAD VIEWERS EERO?
All reports of board
ers, to view anid
this district, shall
plicit information
points:
: 1. The date of 1
Whore hell
Whether proper
given.
What viewers were presen
Whether they
sworn or affirmed
6 Petween what points
posed road is desired
7. Is sur a road pecescary?
8 Bhonld it be a public or a pri
vate road?
9, Babmit a plot or draft of the
proposed road, giving conrses and dus
tances; also indicating where the line
of the proposed road crosses other
roads, property lings, streams and
ravines; also showing location of haild.
ings and other improvements neat
which it may pass,
10. Submit a profile drawing show.
ing the elevations and depressionsand
eoutonr of the surfacs over wlich the
road rans,
© 1L Draw all maps and drafts toa
meals. The vertical lines of the pro
.. file map to be upon a larger seale thas
the base line.
12. Show the number of degrees of
grade al various points.
13. Describe the character of the
ground over which the proposed road
‘rans, giving also the kind of sab.soil
whether rock, clay, gravel. sand, mask,
14. Mark on the profile map the
| ents and fills, also the herght and length
of all bridges and calverts
15. Make out and sabusit an est
mate of the cost of constracting the
road.
= i. Btate whethar BY Bat oa
are demanded. if so, how mau
by whom,
+117. State whetheranuy protests wore
made against the laying out of
proposed road; and if so, by whom
: 18. Bate the ohections, if ny,
pained against granting the road,
19. Have yon laid oar this road
over the shortest aul best practicable
yonte? If not, why not”
To be dated and signed by each
manber of the Board of Viewers pros
ent at the view, giving names in full,
and postoffice addresses
YET uli
page by
S| of Tiemis Ria RN
legal
Wee
lamages
eh, and
Items of Interest,
The common road iw to
wagon what the steel track
locomotive.
State aid in ros d-bnilding 15 4 vys
tem of co-operation by which good
roads can be econouiically and rapidly
constructed.
The general ignorance and poverty
of the Turk, and his bigotry and
fanaticism, sre largely due to the al.
most universal absence of means of
intercommunication,
The bad roads of the South,
~ Btate Geologist Holmes, of
Carolina, levy a mud aud sand tax of
five dollars on every man, woman and
child in the Southern States,
« Ex-Governor Notthen, of Georgia,
‘says that hie is in favor of four reforus
oa State first, textile training
sgoond, any policy wliel
fi gerentitie farming: third
goo roads, and fourth, a reformatory
prison for the detention of youthful
eriminals,
At the next State election in Mine
nesota an amendilent to the State
Constitution will be voted on provid.
ing for a tax of one-twentieth of a
mill, to be added ta the regular State
road and bridge fund, and for the ap-
pointment of three State road come
missioners. The present fund is
about $12,500 a year and the new tax
* Js expected to yield $28,750 more,”
ww CAE
Nortis bu
the proposed
service of that
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the afarsd positing of grocers se
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City, finaiiy ndiourne
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fire,
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mos Haviand
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Thoonasvilly, fidorgia, aged waver
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monument to Geusral Lalas
of Paris to be doadiraiad
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sured by the French
iy, through M. Picard that
monument can be ;
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