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contintie to grow tliroiiglioiit the entire country.— P. H. Hanes. Prefiideid Noiih 

 CufoJiitu Good Roitds Association. Winston, A\ C. 



With relation to the short bit of road constructed at Charleston by the good 

 roads train, I beg to advise that careful inspection shows it to have well with- 

 stood the test to which it has been subjected. You will appreciate, however, 

 that the traffic over this road has not been of a heavy order. The interest in good 

 roads, stimulated by your popular enterprise, is continually extending, and is 

 worthy of the highest commendation. One of the foremost tenets proclaimed in 

 the present gubernatorial campaign is "good roads." I most heartily approve of 

 your work. The greatest benefits are to come to us through ready transporta- 

 tion from the farms to the common carriers. — Earle Sloan, State Geologist, 

 Charleston, S. C. 



RESULTS OF EARLIER OBJECT-LESSON ROAD WORK. 



On account of the great importance of the Government's coopera- 

 tion in this object-lesson road work and the urgent demands that are 

 being made for its extension, it is well to reproduce here, in addition 

 to the above comments on the work of the good roads trains, a few 

 reports upon the sample roads constructed in recent years in the vari- 

 ous States under tlie direction of this Office, in cooperation with the 

 State and the county officials, agricultural colleges, and experiment 

 stations : 



As one of the commissioners having this matter in charge. I have been more or 

 less conversant with the sample road put in by the Government in this vicinity a 

 few years since. The work was prosecuted with more or less difficulty at that 

 time becatise of the lack of proper material for its construction. That portion of 

 it first built has lieen kept in fine condition without any extraordinary expendi- 

 tures. Your work was the beginning of a good roads movement which has 

 increased from year to year until Geneva is now provided with some of the best 

 roads in western New York: hence, as an object lesson it certainly has been a 

 work of great utility. It is generally admitted by all of the citizens here that 

 such is the case.— S. D. Willard, Postmaster, Geneva, N. Y. 



The road built under your supervision has given luiiversal satisfaction, and 

 many people have visited here to see the possibilities in piiblic-road building. The 

 whole country has been stimiilated to improve the old roads. It is very apparent 

 that good roads can be built in sections where gravel and clay abound. The main 

 object is to educate the people how best to use the material at hand. During our 

 convention here 13 counties were represented, and the good seed was sown broad- 

 cast. That it is daily bearing good fruit we are confident. — Hon. Frank Hamil- 

 ton, Traverse City, Mieh. 



I beg to acknowledge with thanks a copy of Farmers' Biilletin No. 136, on 

 Earth Roads. I have read the same with much interest and am glad to see 

 that you present therein an engraving showing the great improvement that was 

 made in our road system here in cooperation with your Office. Our road to-day is 

 as good as it ever was, notwithstanding the fact that it has been in use three years, 

 and has been svibjected to a great deal of heavy haiiling. I wish you could take 

 a ride over it now and then go out on some of the streets of Knoxville that have 

 been neglected for three years. You would not be surprised, however, at such an 

 exijerience, as you realize so well the value of good roads. — Andrew M. Soule, 

 Professor of Agriculture, University of Tennessee. Knoxville, Tenn. 



Any work done by the Government officially is generally supposed to be 

 thoroughly and scientifically done. The work here was not only well done, but 

 the public was satisfied with it. The object-lesson road built was superior to any 

 road work done up to that time; but it is only fair to state that since then better 

 roads even than the model have been constructed by the county officials; in fact, 

 good examples are contagious as well as bad ones. — W. J. Kernachan, M. D., 

 Florence. Ala. 



I have the honor to submit the following report on the object-lesson road, built 

 at this college imder the direction of Mr. Charles T. Harrison, road expert of the 

 Office of Public Road Inquiries, during the spring of 1900: 



The road improved is on the west side of the campus, between the college and 

 the town of Starkville. It is one-third of a mile long, part of it crossing a narrow 



