Produced by V. L. Simpson, Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA VOLUME 15 [Illustration: General Roy Stone (_Father of the good-roads movement in the United States_)] HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA VOLUME 15 The Future of Road-making in America A Symposium BY ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT and others _With Illustrations_ [Illustration] THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY CLEVELAND, OHIO 1905 COPYRIGHT, 1905 BY THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE 11 I. THE FUTURE OF ROAD-MAKING IN AMERICA 15 II. GOVERNMENT COOPERATION IN OBJECT-LESSON ROAD WORK 67 III. GOOD ROADS FOR FARMERS 81 IV. THE SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR MACADAM ROADS 170 V. STONE ROADS IN NEW JERSEY 190 ILLUSTRATIONS I. PORTRAIT OF GENERAL ROY STONE (father of the good-roads movement in the United States) _Frontispiece_ II. A GOOD-ROADS TRAIN 59 III. SAMPLE STEEL TRACK FOR COMMON ROADS (showing portrait of Hon. Martin Dodge) 66 IV. TYPICAL MACADAM ROAD NEAR BRYN MAWR, PENNSYLVANIA 83 V. A STUDY IN GRADING 89 VI. SAND CLAY ROAD IN RICHLAND COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA 115 VII. GRAVEL ROAD NEAR SOLDIERS' HOME, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 127 VIII. OYSTER-SHELL OBJECT-LESSON ROAD 137 IX. EARTH AND MACADAM ROADS 168 PREFACE The present volume on the Future of Road-making in America presents representative opinions, from laymen and specialists, on the subject of the road question as it stands today. After the author's sketch of the question as a whole in its sociological as well as financial aspects, there follows the Hon. Martin Dodge's paper on "Government Cooperation in Object-lesson Road Work." The third chapter comprises a reprint of Hon. Maurice O. Eldridge's careful article, "Good Roads for Farmers," revised by the author for this volume. Professor Logan Waller Page's paper on "The Selection of Materials for Macadam Roads" composes chapter four, and E. G. Harrison's article on "Stone Roads in New Jersey" concludes the book, being specially valuable because of the advanced position New Jersey has taken in the matter of road-building. For illustrations to this volume the author is indebted to the Office of Public Road Inquiries, Hon. Martin Dodge, Director.