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Golden Roads the Good Road Is the Golden Road Leigh H. (Leigh Hadley) Irvine No preview available - 2012 |
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Page 19 - Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tends to remove national and provincial antipathies, and to bind...
Page 15 - ... campers, prospectors, and others. Legislation to enable the department to cooperate with cities and towns in safeguarding the public health through sanitary regulation of the use of watersheds is an urgent need. IMPROVED HIGHWAYS. There has been a steady movement for better roads during the past 20 years, with the result that to-day about 24 States have highway commissions or some other State highway agency. A few of these are engaged in educational work, but most of them are expending State...
Page 17 - ... dollars. Hauling in France is done in many cases at as low a cost as 7 cents per ton per mile, and the average there is probably not more than half of the average for the United States. The selling price of farm products is largely determined by factors beyond the control of the farmer. His prosperity must be measured by the margin of profit above the cost of production and of transportation; and it is only when the great agricultural population awakens to a realization that the road problem...
Page 13 - ADVICE AND OBJECT-LESSON ROAD WORK. The work of the Office is primarily educational in character. Its province is to detail engineers and experts to give information and advice. Whenever there is any question as to what road material is best suited for the local conditions, samples of all the available materials may be sent to the laboratory of the Office, where tests will be made to determine the selection of the best material. In the majority of cases the detail of an engineer or expert to make...
Page 14 - The Office of Public Roads collects and disseminates information concerning systems of road management throughout the United States; conducts investigations and experiments regarding road-building materials and methods of road construction; makes chemical and physical tests of road materials and materials of construction relating to agriculture; gives expert advice on road administration and road construction...
Page 26 - It is an unfortunate fact that most highways do not have a life of 30 years, and it is now quite evident that the life of the highway and not the apparent economic term of the bond should determine the length of the loan. Many miles of natural soil roads are annually built by 30-year bond issues.
Page 13 - ... year, and others wanting to issue bonds, a farmer arose and addressed the meeting as follows: Mr. Chairman, I am just a plain farmer and have no business trying to talk in this meeting. I am all covered with mud; there is mud on my boots, and all over my clothes, and my bat is all spattered up, too.
Page 17 - ... contributory causes to illiteracy, it is significant to note that in four States where the average percentage of improved roads is 30.55 the percentage of white illiterates is only 0.34 of 1 per cent of the total population, and in four States in which only 1.51 of the road mileage is improved the per cent of white illiterates is 4.76. It is probable that bad roads are partly a cause and partly an effect of ignorance, but it certainly appears that the two are closely related.
Page 26 - ... payment of interest and principal is nevertheless fixed. Under the sinking-fund plan the annual payment necessary for principal and interest is theoretically constant, but it depends upon the interest realized upon the sinking fund. It is not safe, as a rule, to estimate this interest at more than 3$ per cent. Then for a $100,000 20-year loan, with annual interest on the sinking fund, the total annual payment would be $8,536.11. If the sinking fund could earn the rate of interest which is paid...
Page 26 - ... the community are in a way to become much confused. This is particularly true since the officers in charge of such operations are frequently changing. Sinkingfund tax levies may be deferred through carelessness or under pressure of other needs. Annuity Bonds. By the annuity method of issuing bonds both the principal and interest are discharged by constant annual or semiannual payments. The amount of each payment or instalment is determined by the rate of interest and the term of the bond. It...