Show ATTENTION TO EARTH ROADS Authority A on Highway H Construction Likes Concrete but Favors More Mora Care of Lanes More attention has got to be paid to the earth roads If It the coming bond elections are to go over This Is the opinion of f E. E L. L Stevens Inventor and road expert Mr Ir Stevens Is perhaps one of the most unique characters characters' In Inthe inthe the road-building road world A A graduate Civil engineer lie he felt the tremendous need for the perfection and development development develop develop- ment meat of ot the road system of America He stepped out from the promising channels of ot the regular regular- engineering profession and went down almost below be be- low low- lowthe the level of ordinary men to study road building says saY'S Hocky Mountain N News ws He has bas made road building and and maintenance his bis life work and Is now now probably as well q qualified as as any man U 4 t t 71 7 1 0 I IU U U UC 1 4 3 1 f wm m n Sand-Clay Sand Road Well Weli Cared For to tell the methods for the proper up up- building of the nations nation's highway tem tern For a number of ot years Mr Stevens has bas been highway highway- commissioner for forthe or the he Estes Park highway This piece of ot road work In n Itself Is a testimony to to his Ideals He Is also the Inventor of ot the tl e Stevens Improved road drag one of the simplest and most roost efficient road machines on the American mar mar- ket Mr Stevens believes In concrete I highways highways' and prepared d boulevards bu but he also believes that the earth road which comprises more than 80 per cent of f the country's highways Is Is of no less Importance A concrete highway isn't goh going g to do a a farmer much good If h he has bas got to haul his load three e miles through hub deep m mud mild d before he begets gets to It Is Mr Stevens Stevens' attitude The farmer is Is the man who Is going to pay for most of the country roads and although concrete roads are needed needed needed need need- ed where the traffic Is sufficiently heavy the earth roads roads' that feed the concrete road must be kept up As an Inventor of road machinery a road engi engineer eer a road s supervisor p iu a and anda d da da a road worker for his practicalities and the life dream of ot better roads as his Idealism Mr Stevens Is ably qualified to Judge highway problems |