Show lp B U ON L 0 1 N 6 ATTENTION TO EARTH ROADS authority on highway construction likes concrete but favors more mora care of lanes more attention has got to be paid I 1 zo to the earth roads if the coming bond elections are to go over this Is the opinion of E D L Stev inventor and road export expert mr stevens Is perhaps one of the most unique characters la in the road building world A graduate civil engineer we he felt the alie tremendous need tor for the perfection and development of the road system of america he stepped out from the promising channels of the regular engineering profession and went down almost below 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 k 4 sand clay road well cared for to 0 tell th the methods for the proper up building of the nations highway system for a number of years M mr r stevens lias bas been highway commissioner for vile he ustes estes park highway this piece of road work in in itself Is a testimony to his ideals ile he is also the inventor of the stevens improved roa road drag one of the simplest and me most efficient clent road machines on the ame american I 1 a market mr stevens believes in concrete highways and prepared boulevards but lie he also believes that the earth road which comprises more than 80 per cent of the count rys highways is of no less importance A concrete highway going to do a farmer much good if lie he has got to haul bir 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 ard ar d all although hough concrete roads are needed vii herta the traffic is sufficiently heavy the earth roads that teed feed the concrete road must be kept up As an inventor of road machinery a road engineer a n rond road supervisor and a road worker for his practicalities and the life dream of better roads as his idealism mr stevens is ably qualified to judg highway problems |