Cotton mill, commercial features. A text-book for the use of textile schools and investors (1899)
Tompkins, Daniel Augustus, 1851-1914 · Charlotte, N.C., The author · leaf 254
d. These facts at once show thatthe maintenance of our public highways is a serious prob-lem, involving the expenditure of large sums of money. The road trustees of Charlotte township find it neces-sary to expend $330 a mile every five years in repairingtheir roads. To be accurate, it takes 350… … ROAD BUILDING AND BROAD TIRES. 153 rowing and other labor, making the aggregate cost ofrepairs for one mile $330. Careful observation teaches them that, with the use ofbroad tires on their macadam roads, this heavy expense ofrepairing could be done away with in a large measure, asthe roads would…
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