Beaver County News | 1917-08-24 | Page 4 | Why not Gravel the Highway?

WHY NOT GRAVEL the HIGHWAY? ' IS there some way to impress upon the State Highway Commission the wastefulness of the frequent grading of the silt stretches of the highway? There is never a time that those silt stretches are in good condition excepting except-ing for three or four days following a rain and immediately after grading. The rounding up of these silt beds is absolute waste of time, waste of money and an aggrevation to the traveling public. There is an abundance of good gravel and road-bed material quite accessible ac-cessible to the- highway its entire length. Why not start on those silt beds and make them into gravel roadbeds? road-beds? It will cost a little more than rounding up the old silt stretches, but it will make a road and the silt never will be a road. With the gravel properly proper-ly placed and rolled there would be much less labor required to keep the road in good condition. Why not?