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Title: North Carolina and its resources
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Stewart, M. I. (Moses I.) prt Stewart, J. C. (John C.) prt North Carolina. Board of Agriculture
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Publisher: Winston : M.I. & J.C. Stewart, public printers and binders
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ts roads bytaxation and labor during the past six years. It has a steam-roller,road machine, crusher, spreading carts, and a complete list of smallerimplements for road work. The number of convicts employed variesfrom fifty to sixty, and the average cost per convict per day, includ-ing food, clothes, medical attendance and guarding, is about twentyand one-half cents. All the county prisoners whose terms are lessthan ten years can be used in this v/ork. Convicts do every kind ofthe work except the most difficult part of the bridge construction-Twenty-eight miles of road have been graded and eighteen mileshave been macadamized, the work having been divided betvveen theprincipal roads in the township, starting from Raleigh. By speciallaw the work has been extended beyond the township boundary.Excellent truss bridges are being built across all the streams andculverts. In Alamance, Cabarrus and Rowan counties a limited amount ofmacadamizing has been done, and many miles of earth roads have
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SHELL ROAD— WILMINGTON. Public Roads. 119 been greatly improved by grading and draining. These counties usetheir convicts in working their important roads. Buncombe county, out of its general tax fund, maintained an aver-age force of about sixty convicts at work on its more important publicroads, for several years, at an average cost of about thirty-five centsper day per convict. For general road work, the old system stillprevails. Many miles of earth roads have been regraded and drainedand in places relocated. A complete outfit for macadamizing workhas been purchased, and a limited amount of work has been done. In the other counties mentioned above the question is now beingagitated, and in the near future they will doubtless begin to con-struct stone roads. In all of them the earth roads have beenimproved, to a greater or less extent, by grading, draining andchanges in the location of roads These improvements are increasingthe popularity of the movement. One of the most encouraging

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