The Future Of Road-Making In America
Archer Butler Hulbert
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HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA VOLUME 15
HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA VOLUME 15
General Roy Stone ( Father of the good-roads movement in the United States )...
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PREFACE
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 Coöperation in Object-lesson Road Work." The third chapter comprises a reprint of Hon. Maurice O. Eldridge's careful article, "Good Roads for Farmers," revised
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The Future of Road-making in America
The Future of Road-making in America
In introducing the subject of the future of road-making in America, it may first be observed that there is to be a future in road-building on this continent. We have today probably the poorest roads of any civilized nation; although, considering the extent of our roads, which cover perhaps a million and a half miles, we of course have the best roads of any nation of similar age. As we have elsewhere shown, the era of railway building eclipsed the great era of road and canal building in the third
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Important Historical Publications of The Arthur H. Clark Company
Important Historical Publications of The Arthur H. Clark Company
Full descriptive circulars will be mailed on application "The most important project ever undertaken in the line of Philippine history in any language, above all the English."— New York Evening Post....
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The Philippine Islands 1493-1898
The Philippine Islands 1493-1898
Being the history of the Philippines from their discovery to the present time EXPLORATIONS by early Navigators, descriptions of the Islands and their Peoples, their History, and records of the Catholic Missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial, and religious conditions of those Islands from their earliest relations with European Nations to the end of the nineteenth century. Translated, and edited and annotated by E. H. Blair , and
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Early Western Travels 1748-1846
Early Western Travels 1748-1846
A SERIES OF ANNOTATED REPRINTS of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement. Edited, with Historical, Geographical, Ethnological, and Bibliographical Notes, and Introductions and Index, by Reuben Gold Thwaites Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents," "Wisconsin Historical Collections," "Chronicles of Border Warfare," "Hennepin
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