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  AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING SERIES E. B. MCCORMICK, CONSULTING EDITOR FORMERLY DEAN OF ENGINEERING DIVISION KANSAS


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  | | | | | | | Average | A | B | C | D E | F | Total -------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------------ Depreciation | $


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id: 19799
title: The Rural Motor Express To Conserve Foodstuffs and Labor and to Supply Rural Transportation.
author: United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
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  possible use of the motor truck as a transportation agency, hauling to market, but adoption of the rural motor express will enable The use of the motor truck for farm transport is growing regular daily service over the main highways from farm to city and from the motor truck as a transportation agency, and requests the State The highways transport committee of the Council of National Defense is motor-truck transportation in the marketing of farm produce. urges the adoption of motor-truck transportation facilities in order to The preliminary surveys by the highways transport committee in sections enthusiastically indorse the plan and wherever rural motor express lines this State has been made by the highways transport committee and shows The rural motor express is not, however, a development to meet an The state highways transport committees are organizing local committees 1. Experience of existing motor-truck lines in the locality.


id: 19759
author: United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
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  they might carry their share of the war burden, the Highways Transport chairmen of the Highways Transport Committee, Council of National Those men built the roads of France. highways than it would to do the same transportation work by railroad. I have thought of the men who will come back after the war. nation has had a problem to deal with the returning soldier. Now, when this thing is over, our men will begin to come back into the small communities in which men have small acreages of land, not to world by highways, by developing rivers, and by railroads. thought and money into the problem of making this country what it can The United States is not going to be after the war as it has been. That is a thing that you sober men of business are already thinking make this country a new land in which these boys who come back will

title:
  Address by Honorable Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highways Transport Committee Council of National Defense


id: 19758
author: United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
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  use of the motor truck as a transportation agency, and requests [Illustration: MAP SHOWING REGIONAL AREAS Highways Transport Committee they might carry their share of the war burden, the Highways Transport chairmen of the Highways Transport Committee, Council of National BEFORE THE REGIONAL CHAIRMEN OF THE HIGHWAYS TRANSPORT that historical line of water and rail transportation the basis for a waterways and highways to get a perfect transportation system for this Still with the coming of the railroad we thought of transportation as we thought of transportation as a unity of railroads. public transportation as meaning essentially the railroads. the steam engine in its time, making possible a tool for the waterway waterway and highway have been, as regards the tools for their use, on vessels upon the Hudson River was never as great, never so new or well transportation--railway, water way, and highway--that they are one,

title:
  Address by Honorable William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highways Transport Committee Council of National Defense


id: 19757
title: ''Return Loads'' to Increase Transport Resources by Avoiding Waste of Empty Vehicle Running.
author: United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
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  use of the motor truck as a transportation agency, and requests vehicles empty, return-load bureaus are established. National Defense, through its Highways Transport Committee and its Return Load Bureaus, Rural Express, Cooperation with Federal Railroad of highways transport as will eliminate making trips with part loads, placing it on motor trucks operating over the highways, millions of deliver a load, they return empty, whereas there are shippers who interests of both, hence the return-load bureaus are of mutual calling "Return loads" or the telephone number of the bureau, shippers trucks and can place them at the service of the shippers on short highways can not be of service both to the country and its shippers. local return-load bureau and the possibilities of this type of as quickly as possible an organization of return-load bureaus in all cooperating with the return-load bureaus. and encourage the work of return-load bureaus.


id: 28607
title: The Road and the Roadside
author: Potter, Burton Willis
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  Economy and public convenience require roads to be kept up the year Distinction between town ways and public highways. "The law of the road" applies to private ways. road-way upon adjoining land. town appropriated money liberally for highway repairs, the roads Many of the old roads in our towns and cities have become public either town ways or public highways. commissioners, they are public highways.[4] Suppose a new road is public way over his land, neither the city nor town authorities nor his own land, if that is the best way of clearing the road of The roads are for the use of travellers, and a city or town is not way has not the right of a traveller on a public road to go outside repair, whereas in the case of a public way the traveller is under alongside of the road-bed of some of the public ways, so that every


id: 29420
title: American Rural Highways
author: Agg, T. R. (Thomas Radford)
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  of Layer--Preparation of the Road--Trench Method--Surface Earth Foundation--Placing Concrete for Two-course Road--Curing The surface of the road is designed to turn water rapidly to the type of soil on the road and nature of existing surface, character of water-bonded and tar macadam, cinder and gravel road surfaces were The sand-clay road surface consists of a natural or artificial mixture =Characteristics.=--Sand-clay road surfaces do not have sufficient resistant to wear so that the road surface made from the gravel will secured throughout the entire area of the concrete road surface, =Placing Concrete for Two-course Road.=--The methods employed for the It is usual to specify that the brick used for road surfaces construction and maintenance, especially for road surfaces subjected Asphaltic concrete is a name given to a road surface mixture which is =Maintenance of Earth, Sand-clay, Gravel and Macadam Roads.=--The On brick and concrete roads, the principal work on the wearing surface


id: 18878
title: Return-Loads Bureaus to Save Waste in Transportation
author: United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
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  RETURN-LOAD BUREAUS TO SAVE WASTE IN TRANSPORTATION. CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE BRING SHIPPER AND TRUCK OWNER TOGETHER. A Return-loads Bureau can be established by a Chamber of Commerce Defense, Return-Loads Bureaus have been established in 15 cities. to motor-truck owners in the different cities. a week the truck would be available under the return-loads plan, its the bureau in each city knows just what trucks are available in the The telephone company should be asked to list the Return-Loads Bureau under the title "Return Loads" in the local directory and truck owners carry back to the city from which the truck brought a load or where a service should be arranged with bureaus in other cities, so that a truck Return-Loads Bureau was established there) and stated it intended to just as quickly as possible, the organization of Return-Loads Bureaus in bring loads by truck from other points telephone to the bureau in order


id: 939
author: Smiles, Samuel
title:
  The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain


id: 40759
title: The Old Road
author: Belloc, Hilaire
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  sites: the cliff above the river Wey, the lonely peaked hill of St. Martha''s that answers it from beyond the stream, the cross-roads on Now, on its way from Winchester to Canterbury, the Old Road passes, V. In crossing a river-valley, the Road makes invariably for the point modern road follows that valley, passes through New Alresford, and modern high-road also corresponds with the old way for something like that the Old Road in crossing a valley always chooses a place where The Old Road being originally the only track along these hills was crossing-place, and carried the Old Road across the tide-way of the After crossing the river it is a road all the way, passing sixteen miles from Canterbury, following the track of the Old Road, probability of Old Road passing south of hill at, 106 (note); valley of, track of Old Road through, 137 (map).


id: 41152
title: Braddock''s Road and Three Relative Papers
author: Hulbert, Archer Butler
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  Braddock Washington''s little force retraced their steps over the road Sending Braddock and his army to Virginia against the French on the Ohio Braddock had crossed half of the Atlantic his Quartermaster-General, St. Clair, had passed all the way through Virginia and Maryland to Fort Braddock to Sir John Robinson from Fort Cumberland, June 5: Braddock''s army under Halket and Dunbar proceeded to Fort Cumberland road very Mountanious, March''d 11 Miles, when we came to a River call''d Regiments--An Indian came in 6 days from the French Fort, and assured us to make the least move to provide an Indian army for Braddock''s use. Braddock''s Run, a mile and more east of Fort Necessity, in Great army had crossed and marched about a mile, Braddock received a note from advanced so far as to kill a French officer within half a mile of Fort description of routes converging on Braddock''s Road at Fort Cumberland


id: 41143
title: Boone''s Wilderness Road
author: Hulbert, Archer Butler
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  man''s road by the first white army that ever crossed the Ohio River into Virginians secured a grant of land south of the Ohio and directly west troops which conquered the land between the Ohio River and the Great at a new settlement at the mouth of Otter Creek on the Kentucky River Tennessee River to the Shawnee Indian towns on the Ohio, which path they north, crossing some of the head branches of the Kentucky River over a the Cumberland Mountains and the Ohio River, now the state of Kentucky. and Kanawha Rivers, where the Ohio Company''s grant of land was made. Boone''s Road followed this path northward, whereupon, leaving the Indian Road was attacked by Indians not far from the Kentucky border. of the Indian nations which lay between the Ohio River and the Great first portion of the land north of the Ohio River to come under the


id: 41067
title: Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers (Volume 1)
author: Hulbert, Archer Butler
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  road passed along declivities or over hills, the path was in some places The soft roads of the summer time were useless so far as heavy loads of The real work of opening roads in America began, of course, on the Thus the typical pioneer road even before the day of wagons was a old routes of travel were often very wide, especially in wet places; in Traveling by stage, except on the half dozen good roads then the said road or any part thereof with more than six horses, nor shall hundred and six miles of these roads in New York State alone, and the The route pursued was the old state road begun in 1785 running through Hagar''s-town; being, like them, on the high road to the western country, "Anything seems a good road to you where the horse will not have to


id: 41030
title: Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers (Volume 2)
author: Hulbert, Archer Butler
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  the Potomac River all that the Erie Canal and the Cumberland Road returning home by way of the Great Kanawha and New Rivers, in order to northwestern Virginia to the Ohio River was Braddock''s Road; for this it; ..." In many instances the new roads built hereabouts in later days way of road-building into the old Central West by 1760 than all other of a road from Winchester to some proper place on the Ohio river, shall at any time be a contractor for making any part of the said road, same, but rather better to-day, except that a great deal of the road eighteen miles through an intolerable bad road, to-day. got to ---at the Black Horse, four and a half miles to breakfast. is in Wood County, West Virginia, eighteen miles by the Ohio River from The Great Genesee Road, as it was early known, began at old Fort


id: 33706
title: The Future of Road-making in America
author: Hulbert, Archer Butler
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  church; good roads make it possible for a larger proportion of country the cost of new roads as follows: The state pays twenty-five per cent, Whether the road be constructed of earth, stone, or gravel, steep grades condition of thousands of miles of earth roads in the United States. communities to build good stone roads, a surface of gravel may than broken stone or gravel of good quality, and consequently roads made The greatest obstacles to good stone road construction in most places in The materials employed for surfacing roads should be both hard and If a road is built of tough, hard stone, and if the binding material has A mile of broken stone road, fifteen feet wide, costs in the state values of the different varieties of rock as road material, and good these roads constructed of stone macadam. construct eleven miles of stone road nine feet wide for $40,000?


id: 44684
title: The Pilgrims'' Way from Winchester to Canterbury
author: Cartwright, Julia
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  pilgrims often left the original road to visit churches and shrines in Three hundred and seventy years have passed since the shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury was swept away, and the martyr''s ashes were In those old days the pilgrims who came to Canterbury approached the Pilgrims'' Way. A very ancient path it is, older far than the days of To-day an old gateway near the church of St. Bartholomew and some fragments of the monastery wall are the only Along this pleasant Surrey hill-side the old Canterbury pilgrims The Pilgrims'' Way ran through Albury Park, passing close to the old We have followed the Pilgrims'' Way over Hampshire Downs and Surrey hills traveller find as he follows the Pilgrims'' Way along the chalk hills at the foot of the hills, close to the Pilgrims'' Way. Old houses and the old track of the Pilgrims'' Way which passed between these woods and


