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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
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construction, and when the local de-mand takes labor from the road it is not possible toplace the remaining force on just a mile or two of roadto as good advantage as we can on the larsrer iobs,as we usnallv finish the ffradint? and then put on thewearinEr surface, and when the force is small, it is hardto place them to the same advantase as can bp doneon larTcr iobs where all parts of the work are contin-uous, and when we are short-handed, cut out a partof the work. The convict labor is used to the best advantage onthe roads where the grading is heavy and quarryingnecessary, as it is then possible to concentrate the forceso that foremen and guards can give closer attention toindividual efforts, as the prisoners realize that this istheir puni.shment and the less work they do. the lessthe punishment, and there are alwa^s a lot of imagi-nary adjustments to clothes and tools that kill time fora few minutes, and at the end of the month it amountsto several hundred hours for a road force.
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Flouadering Through Mud inlSpottsylvania county, Virgin 28 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS October, 1914

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