| Show t 4 AMID GRADING OF COUNTRY ROADS great care should be exercised 1 in se lection of material for bridges and culverts Cu lverts one of the most serious wastes in connection ml alth t h our highway building Is the necessity which la Is often met with mith of destro destroying ding miles of 0 gravel granel or stone to ro id bid bcd hardened and cemented b lears of travel but which Is found to be out of line or out of level with nith tho the requirements of the highway as determined b bv the best engineering practice when such a roid road Is too high it must be excavated at a cost consider abl in excess excels of that of ordinary soil sell or grai gravel el and d when rhen too low lom it I 1 is cov COT ani ered r eq by the new em material with a total fo loss ss of the original investment writes B 0 marshall in progressive farmer the labor expended upon roads that have fol followed lomed the lines of least resistance after the manner of the path the calf made may be found when hen these are relocated according to modern methods to offer but slight assistance in the establishment n of f the permanent but whore they are the ordinary dirt or clay trails of man districts we may con sole ourselves with the fact t act that they never represented an very heavy in vestment estr nent the lamentable thing Is the laying of what nhat should be perma nent construction under strictly tern horary conditions the building of the house upon the sand even in the counties where the population and the amount of taxable property are ner er small in proportion to the road mileage it should be the practice to make any extensive im prove ments or alterations only after a securing tile the advice of a competent highba engineer the temporary employment empl ment of such an official is quite practicable and the returns will be man hundred per cent on the out lay the loss on bridges and cu lverts in a relocated and graded road is gen brally heavy most constructions even it found in fairly good condition are totally destro destroyed jed by removal an exception is the corrugated iron pipe when made from high purit iron these cu lverts are but affect ed by rust and can thus be rightfully classed as permanent improvements but thea the are also ideal tor for a tempo location as they suffer no dam age lit in being dug out and brick stone or concrete should only be employed where the location is fixed for all time and where also an absolutely rigid foundation can be as in america we do a nast ast deal of vork ork which has to be undone a few vears nears later we want mant results and want N ant them quick as a nation we me have the energy and folly of ouan it Is highly highl interesting to note the vast amount of labor on the farm the lil gliNa and in the stores aud and factories fic tories which ins has to be performed as a result of earlier e errors r bors and clr ml calculations v 0 build barns arid and silos and establish a milk route and two years nears later decide that our cir cum stances or our inclinations are better adapted adopted to fruit raising and an expensive dalri plant becomes idle and useless the storekeeper stocks up on i a line that his customers dont want mant and cant use and the goods encumber the shelves until they are old at a sacr sacrifice fice the buys machinery machiner 3 and em employs P experts to effect a minor improvement in his product ind and the next year finds the article displaced in the market b bv some totally different and superior device in beveral directions ho however Reier indications mas be observed of the rule of a judgment IN e are learning to conserve still more valuable alu able things than lumber and wa ma ter power pomer the waste of time and of labor Is beginning to be understood as sacrifice of human life |
