CONFERENCE OF GOVERNORS. 



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1 In teams. 



' All others. 



Aethur W. Dean, Concord, N". H., State Engineer of New 



Hampshire. 



Highway construction, trunk lines and automobile regulations 

 have been so thoroughly and ably discussed by the speakers that 

 very little can be added to their statements. 



Highway construction is now in the revolutionary stage, due to 

 the rapidly increasing use of automobiles; and we do not yet know 

 what is the most economical and effective construction of road sur- 

 face for this new kind of traffic, and will not know until sufficient 

 time has elapsed to witness the results of experiments now being 

 and to be tried; and no legislation, other than to provide sufficient 

 funds, can hasten or assist in the determination of the proper sur- 

 face. 



Regarding trunk lines, I wish to say that the State of New Hamp- 

 shire in 1905 commenced to co-operate with the towns and cities 

 in the permanent improvement of the main roads of the State, and 

 although in some instances local needs were so strongly presented 

 that some money was expended on roads that may not become trunk 

 lines, yet in a large percentage of the towns the roads improved 

 may eventually become links in a trunk line system. In 1907 the 

 Legislature of New Hampshire took a long step towards final at- 

 tainment of the trunk line system by providing for a more rapid 

 construction of a road leading up the Merrimack valley from the 

 Massachusetts line at Nashua to Lake Winnepesaukee, and about 



