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NO STRIPPING 

 The 35-{oot rock face with little top soil 

 makes quarrying easier, reduces cost of 

 road material. 



KIMiMING along a township 

 road at 60 miles an hour in a 

 light delivery truck in Decem- 

 ber with so little vibration that you 

 could read a newspaper — that would 

 be news in many counties. But not 

 in District Four*, Scott county. The 

 story there is how the road got that 

 way. 



To build roads like 31 of the ^0 



• Scott countj- is divided into seven road districts 

 which arc made up of approximately a township 

 and a half. 



Scott County 



W.P.A. Builds 



Rock Roads 



By LARRY POTTER. 

 Assistant Editor 



miles in the district requires money, 

 men, machines and managerial ability. 

 The money, $60,000, comes from tax- 

 payers, both local and federal. The 

 men, most of them former farm hands 

 who have been displaced by improved 

 farm implements, are WPA workers. 

 The machines are owned by the tax- 

 payers in the district. And the man- 

 ager or sponsor of the project is High- 

 way Commissioner Bruce Burrows. 



When Uncle Sam announced in 1933 

 that he would provide jobs for men 

 who needed them, road-wise Bruce 

 Burrows began to envision the good 

 that crews of government-paid workers 

 could do on the roads of district four. 

 While his roads were good most of the 



•WPA MEN ARE GOOD WORKERS — 

 when they have a worthwhile job to do," says the highway commissioner. They are 

 shown doing "bad weather" work — preparing rock ior the crusher, left, and loading 

 a truck from the stock pile crushed in good weather. 







EVERY MOVEMENT IS DOWNHIU 

 Rock, quarried with dynamite and sledges, is hauled down to the crusher. Crushed 

 stone is loaded by gravity. A by-product of the operation is quality agricultural 

 limestone. 



•TO MARKET IN ANY WEATHER" 

 Farmer O. C. Stainiorth, left uses the 

 roada that Bruce Burrows has built during 

 30 Tears in Scott county's District Four. 



year and passable at all times, except 

 for low spots here and there, Bruce 

 and many landowners saw the need for 

 a road system that would provide every 

 farm family in the district a way to 

 market the year 'round. 



"The fellows who live back from the 

 main roads pay taxes just like the rest 

 of us and they deserve roads as good 

 as any." During the 30 years that 

 Bruce has been district highway com- 

 missioner, that has been his motto and 

 his aim. The road committee of the 

 Scott County Farm Bureau has long 

 studied the problem of providing farm- 

 to-market roads for most farmers and 

 has given Bruce Burrows valuable as- 

 sistance and counsel in working out 

 his plan. 



But federal aid through the WPA 

 could not be secured at once. The 

 district, as beneficiary of the WPAer's 

 work, would first have to guarantee to 

 spend for materials a sum equal to the 

 amount the government would pay in 

 wages. And that meant a bond issue 

 if the men were to be given jobs that 

 would really mean good roads. 



With faith in Bruce's ability as a 

 road -builder, the people voted to bor- 

 row S30,000 through the sale of bonds. 

 That meant that landowners would pay 

 331,^5 cents on each $100 of valuation 

 for the next ten years. 



Their philosophy on the matter is 

 much like that of one large landholder 

 who asks, "What good is a farm if you 

 can't get to it.'" 



Mrs. Gordon, who owns land in 

 two counties, says, "I use the roads 

 of both counties. I've been paying 

 taxes to pay off a bond issue in the 

 other county although I don't vote 

 there. I was glad to have a chance 

 to vote for better roads in Scott county. 

 And when Bruce gets them built, we'll 

 have the best roads in this part of the 

 state." 



District four is handicapped by lack 

 of road-building materials. Gravel can 

 be shipped in or dug from creek beds. 



