Highways and Highway Transportation by George R. Chatburn
1917. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.
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“Highway Bonds,” _The American Year Book_, 1919, 1920. D. Appleton &
Co., New York.
House Document No. 1510, “Federal Aid to Good Roads,” being Vol. 99
of the House Documents.
Iowa Code of 1851, “Road Laws.”
Office of Public Roads Established, Bulletin No. 1, 1894, Report of
Secretary of Agriculture, 1893, p. 36. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.
_New York Times_, Good Roads Department, Sept. 11, 1892.
NYE, BILL, “On Good Roads,” _Good Roads_, September, 1892.
PERKINS, GEORGE A., “State Highways of Massachusetts,” U. S. Dept. of
Agri. Year Book, 1894, p. 505.
Post Roads.--The Constitution of the United States on, Section 8.
POTTER, I. B., “The Gospel of Good Roads,” League of American
Wheelmen.
SMITH, CHARLES EMORY, “Rural Mail Delivery,” Agricultural Year Book,
1900, p. 522. U. S. Dept of Agriculture.
FOOTNOTES
[122] Code of 1851.
[123] “Highway Engineering,” by G. R. Chatburn, pp. 125-126.
[124] J. B. Dunlop, a surgeon of Dublin, invented the pneumatic tire
in 1888.
[125] One of the early books was entitled “The Gospel of Good Roads,”
by I. B. Potter, and appealed directly to the farming interests.
[126] _New York Times_, September 11, 1892.
[127] Adolphine Hingst, under the heading “Surprised at America.
A European’s Shock on Seeing its Roads and Highways,” _Boston
Transcript_, August 10, 1892.
[128] _Good Roads_, September, 1892.
[129] _Engineering Record_, August 27, 1892.
[130] _New York Times_, Sept. 11, 1892.
[131] Ibid.
[132] Printed as a Senate Document.
[133] Cong. Record, Vol. 24: Dec. 15, 1892, p. 157; Dec. 21, p. 261;
Dec. 22, p. 300. Senate Documents.
[134] Congressional Record, Vol. 24, Jan. 26, 1893, p. 883.
[135] Ibid.
[136] Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1893, p. 36.
[137] Bulletin No. 1, Office of Road Inquiry, p. 5.
[138] Bulletin No. 26, Office of Public Road Inquiries, p. 46.
[139] Bulletin No. 26, Office of Public Road Inquiries.
[140] Address on the “History and Purposes of the Good Roads
Movement,” by William H. Moore, president National Good Roads
Association, Bulletin No. 26, Office of Public Road Inquiries, p. 10.
[141] _The Morning Oregonian_ (Portland), June 22, 1905.
[142] “Goods Roads Year Book,” 1917, p. 29.
[143] “The Delivery of Rural Mails,” by Charles H. Greathouse.
Department of Agriculture Year Book, 1890.
[144] Cong. Record, Dec. 3, 1900, p. 12.
[145] “The American Year Book,” 1919, p. 556.
[146] Dept. of Agri. Year Book, 1900, p. 522.
[147] Year Book, 1900. Department of Agriculture, Washington.
[148] “The Constitution of the United States,” Section 8.
[149] Public Law No. 156, 64th Congress.
[150] “State Aid to Road Building in New Jersey,” by Edward Burrough,
Chairman of the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture, Office of Road
Inquiry Bulletin No. 9, 1894.
[151] “Inside History of the State Aid Road Law,” by Clayton Conrow,
President of the New Jersey State Road Improvement Association,
Report of the New Jersey Commissioner of Public Roads, 1900, p. 81.
[152] “State Highways in Massachusetts,” by George A. Perkins,
Chairman Massachusetts State Highway Commission, U. S. Department of
Agriculture Year Book, 1894, p. 505.
[153] Office of Public Roads Bulletin No. 136.
[154] “The American Year Book,” D. Appleton Co., New York, 1919, 1920.
[155] House Document No. 1510, “Federal Aid to Good Roads,” being
Vol. 99, of the House Documents.
[156] Vol. LIII, 1916. See page references at end of chapter.
[157] Circular No. 65, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Office of
Public Roads.
[158] “American Year Book,” 1920, p. 308. D. Appleton & Company, New
York.
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