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Identifier: southerngoodroad1914varn (find matches)
Title: Southern good roads
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Varner, Henry B North Carolina Good Roads Association
Subjects: Roads Roads
Publisher: Lexington, N.C., Southern Good Roads Pub. Co
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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e engineering department was decided upon. In-stead of having separate construction and maintenancedepartments, each covering the whole state, with as-sistant engineers and engineer inspectors for each ofthese departmients, and using Baltimore as headquar-ters, thus duplicating inspection trips, increasing trav-eling expenses and railroad fares, losing a large amountof time in reaching working points, dividing responsi-liility, etc., these two departments were consolidatedinto one and the state was divided into eight geograph-ical sections of two or three counties each, with a resi-dent engineer living at a central point in each residen-cy, responsible for all construction, maintenance andstate aid work in his territory, and equipped with amotor cycle, so as to enable him to reach all parts ofsame quickly and frequently. This has saved the statethousands of dollars yearly in expenses and in increas-ed effectiveness. (It is worthy of remark that a board May, 1914 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS 15
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GOVERNOR P.L. GOLDSBOROUGH, OP MARYLAND i6 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS May, 1914 of consulting engineers, consisting of three distinguish-ed highways engineers, appointed by the governor ofNew York several months ago, to make a study andreport on the condition of the highways department ofthat state, has just recommended the principle of thisorganization for handling the expenditure of $65,000,-000 on their roads.) On August 20 a purchasing department was organ-ized, requiring written requisition similar to that invogue with large railway corporations. All supplies,materials, stone, sand, oil, machinery, etc., are boughtby a purchasing agent, after approval by the chairmanand chief engineer. It is calculated that this has savedthe state $25,000 in sixteen months. On September 1 the eight new residencies were map-ped out and the resident engineers appointed to takecharge of them. On Sptember 10 an equipment ledger was openedAvith a complete inventory of all machinery and tools.This ledger was

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