Excerpt from Progress of Road Construction in the United States: Reports by Delegates to National Road Parliament Held at Atlanta, Ga., October 17-19, 1895 In regard to traveling: The commissioners travel by wagon as much as is practicable. The State provides us with a buckboard and team. We carry barometers and cameras and cyclometers on our wagon. We practice. Exactly what we preach, for we have wide tires on our wagon. The commission has traveled miles in the last five months. Such is the history of the movement for better roads in California. We hope to be able to continue to progress, and I assure you that we Shall always be pleased to receive communications and advice from good-road enthusiasts everywhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.