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Show BUILPIWC ATTENTION TO EARTH ROADS Authority on Highway Construction Likes Concrete, but Favors More Care of Lanes. "More attention has got to be paid to the earth roads if the coming bond elections are to go over." This is the opinion of B. L. Stevens, inventor and road expert. Mr. Stevens is, perhaps, one of the most unique characters in the road-building world. A graduate civil engineer, he felt the tremendous need for the perfection and development develop-ment of the road 'system of America. He stepped out from the promising channels of the regular engineering profession and went down almost below be-low the level of ordinary men to study road building, says Rocky Mountain News. He has made road building and maintenance his life work and is now, probably, as well qualified as any man Sand-Clay Road Well Cared For. to tell the methods for the proper upbuilding up-building of the nation's highway system. sys-tem. , For a number of years Mr. Stevens has been highway commissioner for the Estes Park highway. This piece of road work in itself is a testimony to his ideals. He is also the inventor of the Stevens improved road drag, one of the simplest and most efficient road machines on the American market. mar-ket. Mr. Stevens believes in concrete highways and prepared boulevards, but he also believes that the earth road, which comprises more than 80 per cent of the country's highways, is of no less importance. "A concrete highway isn't going to do a farmer much good if he has got to haul his load three miles through hub-deep mud before he gets to it," is Mr. Stevens' attitude. The farmer is the man who is going to pay for most of the country roads, and although concrete roads are needed need-ed where the traffic is sufficiently heavy the earth roads that feed the concrete road must be kept up. As an inventor of road machinery, a road engineer, a roue! supervisor and a road worker for his practicalities and the life dream of better roads as his idealism, Mr. Stevens is ably qualified qual-ified to judge highway problems. |