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Secondary roads in the State have shown steady improvement since the end of the war when the General Assembly added a penny to the gasoline tax and ear-marked it for the fnrfn-to-market roads.
At the beginning of this year, hard surfaced mileage on the secondary system stood at 11,179. The stabilization program which the highway department launched in 1946 gave an all weather surface to thousands of other miles of school bus, RFD and farm-tomarket roads.
Much of this afforded only temporary relief, engineers explained, relief necessitated by widespread mud conditions which followed •wartime years when road improvements were virtually suspended. '/ Many roads improved since the war still require widening, more adequate drainage, new bridges
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The cost survey will determine how many miles must be rebuilt! , ’how many miles require a hard surface, light surface or all weather surface, how many bridges must be rebuilt, and the cost of each operation.
The bridge situation intensifies the problem of developing the secondary system, engineers pointed out. In many counties a large number of bridges will require replacement at great cost’.
Recently the department listed Mme 3,600 secondary bridges with ^ a less than 10 ton capacity. Bring ing these up to standard, poses the toughest problem faced by the State in developing thq secondary road system, highway offici,.ale commented.' . -. ‘
Soil Saver Notes
A joint meeting of county forestry committees from Orange, Madison, Greene, Culpeper, and Rappahannock counties met in Madison Wednesday, May 31, at 8 p.m. in the War Memorial building, to plan a program of action for the coming year.
William E. Cooper, Executive Director of the Virginia Forest Incorporated, Richmond, was the speaker. Mr. Cooper gave an interesting illustrated talk on the position and importance of the forest and its allied products to the people of the State of Virginia. The value of proper timberland management and reforestation was pointed out to those present. The meeting was also attended by approximately 45 farmera enrolled in the G.I. farm training program, c
George F. Myers, Flint Hill, was awarded a ‘Tree Farm’ certificate.
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