Download or read book Biennial Report of the Highway Commissioner to the Governor, for the Years Ended December 31, 1903 and 1904 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Biennial Report of the Highway Commissioner to the Governor, for the Years Ended December 31, 1903 and 1904: Including State Specifications, Public Laws Governing Town Management of Highways, and Addresses of Highway Commissioners Delivered at the Good Roads Congress, February 10 and 11, 1904 Since the commencement of State aid in 1895 there has been expended on the part of the State the sum of In connection with this amount there has been expended on the part of the several towns of the State the sum Of making a sum total of that has been actually ex pended for highway improvement under State administration and control. The expenditure of this money has resulted in the improvement Of many miles Of roads. The opening of work in the spring of 1903 was delayed owing to the fact of a hard winter and a long, wet, cold spring, so that active operation did not commence until April 15. Very few contractors having macadam roads to construct entered upon the work until May for the ground was too soft, which fact did not allow them to profitably operate in constructing macadam roads. Town roads not under State control were delayed in their ordinary repair by the backwardness of the spring, which caused the farmers throughout the State to be late with their planting. The whole season of road building was thereby practically shortened up nearly two months. The appropriation for 1903-'o4 was made accessible by the passage of the act early in June. Immediately on the passage of the law, all towns in the State were notified Of the amount Of money that had been appropriated by the legislature and also the proportion they would be allowed in accordance with the law. The final day for receiving applications was fixed as August 1, 1903. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.