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INDEX
Good Roads

GOOD ROADS (continued)—

statistics gathered in France, 181; trap rocks often useful, 184; trappa, derivation of, 184; testing rocks, 186–187; laboratories for testing, 188.

    • Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, prosperity under, 15, 44–45.
    • Moral question of, 15, 17–18.
    • National Aid, Dodge on, 15, 51–64.
    • New Jersey and state aid, 15, 51.
    • New York plan of state aid, 15, 51.
    • Ohio and state aid, 15, 51.
    • Pennsylvania and state aid, 15, 51.
    • "Pig-track surveys," fallacy of following, 15, 87.
    • Railways favor, 15, 43–44, 46, 78.
    • Sand clay road, view of, 15, 115.
    • Schools: dependent on, 15, 18; President Jesse on consolidated buildings for, 19; comparative expense of country and city, 32–33.
    • Section lines, cannot be built economically on, 15, 87.
    • Social intercourse and, 15, 23.
    • State-aid plan described, 15, 50–51.
    • Steel track, view of, 15, 66.
    • Stone roads, principles of building, 15, 190–211.
    • Straightness must be sacrificed for proper grades, 15, 91–92.