A Dispute Over Highway Specifications

We are not engineers enough to pass upon the durability of the state highway which has just been completed between this city and Finley, but we are of the opinion that the good roads committee of the Commercial club did a good day’s work when they succeeded in getting the specifications changed so seven miles of road could be built instead of three. It is useless, of course, to argue that the present road will stand the wear and tear of travel as long as the more expensive construction would have. But the saving to the farmers who live along the four miles which were not included in the original plans will more than offset the difference in the life of the two kinds of construction. Looking at the situation from a viewpoint of the most good to the most people, we can but reason that the changing of the specifications was a wise one. We have always taken the position that the people who need good roads are the people who are making their homes in the valley now and not the generation that is to follow.