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Title: The Future of Road-making in America

Author: Archer Bulter Hulbert

Release Date: September 12, 2010 [EBook #33706]

Language: English

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HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA

VOLUME 15

[Illustration: General Roy Stone

(_Father of the good-roads movement in the United States_)]

HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA

VOLUME 15

The Future of Road-making in America

A Symposium

BY

ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT

and others

_With Illustrations_

[Illustration]

THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY
CLEVELAND, OHIO
1905

COPYRIGHT, 1905
BY
THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

CONTENTS

PAGE

PREFACE 11

I. THE FUTURE OF ROAD-MAKING IN AMERICA 15

II. GOVERNMENT COOPERATION IN OBJECT-LESSON ROAD WORK 67

III. GOOD ROADS FOR FARMERS 81

IV. THE SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR MACADAM ROADS 170

V. STONE ROADS IN NEW JERSEY 190

ILLUSTRATIONS

I. PORTRAIT OF GENERAL ROY STONE
(father of the good-roads movement
in the United States) _Frontispiece_

II. A GOOD-ROADS TRAIN 59

III. SAMPLE STEEL TRACK FOR COMMON ROADS
(showing portrait of Hon. Martin Dodge) 66

IV. TYPICAL MACADAM ROAD NEAR BRYN MAWR, PENNSYLVANIA 83

V. A STUDY IN GRADING 89

VI. SAND CLAY ROAD IN RICHLAND COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA