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They are impervious to water,-seepage through the pavement to the subsoil, with consequent settling, is impossible.

They are resilient and non-rigid, — cushioning most of the traffic impact, rather than transmitting it to the subsoil.

They are flexible, and consequently not detrimentally affected by expansion and contraction, due to temperature changes. They are always in contact with the subsoil.

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the county authorities. The development of the counties would be enhanced by taking the county view rather than the view of the Highway Commission because the Commission builds a road for the shortest distance, at the least money, whereas the development of the county might be enhanced by building different types of roads and going longer distances. During the last Legislature we were importuned to say that we were in favor of all the money going to the cities. I do not know what the majority of the people in our city thought about it, but I did not feel that way, and I believe that the cities have an obligation to the country districts, and until the country. roads are built up and improved, the roads that lead into the cities, I believe that it is better for the roads in the country to be improved, just as I believe that it would be better if the next hundred thousand people that come to Southern California never saw the inside of a city, but went out and settled in the country rather than to go into the cities. I had a little house in Los Angeles and it took me over six months to get a telephone into that house, after working all the friends. whom I knew. I am rather inclined to think that only a small portion of the tax should go to the cities, provided some arrangement is made with the Supervisors for more cooperation in paving the many highways that lead through the cities. But, in a broad way, I am inclined to think that it is better to leave the matter alone until we are a little bit further advanced in knowing what we can do in building up our country roads and helping the very small towns and cities, which are practically part of the country, to build their main highways and build up the country roads, and leave the money as it is. But I would want to think a long time before I would turn the tax money over to the state.

MR. KIERNAN: I have another question of information: Right alongside of my office, on the fourth floor of the Forum Building, in Sacramento, there is an organization of state employees, popularly called, among state officials, "The Convict Gang." I want to assure you they are not convicts, they are real gentlemen and ladies. I wonder how many men here are acquainted with the wonderful work of reformation they are doing in this state? They are building roads in the mountainous parts of the state. Those convicts are working out their redemption and leaving permanent monuments behind them, as a mark of their redemption.

MR. CLARK: I would like to voice a little opposition to the argument in favor of turning all this fund over to the state for this reason: that I figure that any commission is made up of human beings, and there is just a little bit of danger of any set of men yielding to certain influences. The question is whether that money would not be expended, if it were all left in the hands of the state, too much in the localities where the greatest influence could be brought to bear, and it seems to me it is a more equitable proposition to give it to the counties and leave it up to the Boards of Supervisors to expend a portion of that money. The state, under the present law, gets half of that money any way, and that is certainly plenty for the Highway Commission to spend, and leave the rest of it for the Boards of Supervisors. And then, possibly, we might go further and ask that there be some legislation enacted requiring that a certain percentage of that money go to the cities. Take as an example the highway that runs say from the northern part of Santa Clara County up through San Mateo County to San Francisco. That highway goes through a great many cities, and yet practically all the traffic that goes into San Francisco

goes along that highway and through those cities. About every ten to twenty miles the highway runs through one of these cities with five or ten or twenty thousand inhabitants, and all of the traffic goes through those cities, but most of the benefit is going to San Francisco, say, many miles away from the cities referred to. That is a point that might be discussed, whether, on trunk lines, some aid should not be given to the cities along the route.

MR. BARZELLOTTİ: It seems to me that these questions were discussed last year, and we came to the conclusion that the state should contribute to the maintenance of those trunk lines going through those cities. In other words, it was the opinion of the delegates that it was not right that a state highway should cease to be a state highway at the border of an incorporated town and become one again at the other end of that town.

MR. LOCKE: There was a bill introduced at the request of the city of Fresno. The particular circumstances in relation

to the matter, so far as I recollect them, were these: that Fresno had annexed some territory in which there was a part of the state highway, or a continuation of the state highway, and the State Highway Commission claimed jurisdiction over the highway, to the extent of estab lishing the grade, and the city of Fresno disputed the right of the Highway Commission, basing that objection on the ground that the grades which the Highway Commission provides would not meet the grades of the municipality, and they would not carry off the storm waters. So a bill was introduced into the Legislature, and, before introduction, was submitted to the city officials of Fresno and approved by them, which provides that, in such case, the municipal authorities shall have jurisdiction over that portion of the highway, in so far as it applies to the establishment of grades.

MR. BACKUS: The State Highway Commission agreed on that and the attorney for the State Highway Commission agreed and endorsed that bill.

NO other trip in all the world

offers so much for such small cost.

Traverse your own country. See its diverse beauties, its mountains, its rivers, its lakes.

California's attractions lie along your route; trips to Lake Tahoe, Yosemite; southward to Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Hollywood, San Diego and Carriso Gorge to Phoenix, Arizona. On over Apache Trail and Roosevelt Dam.

Tucson, El Paso, fascinating Juarez in Mexico. San Antonio, Houston, New Orleans-cities rich in romance and beauty.

Now a delightful 5day ocean voyage to New York. Side-trips

to Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Atlantic City. Then Niag ara Falls, a trip through Canada, the Great Lakes, Detroit and Chicago.

Return west through United States, via Yellowstone to Seattle and Spokane. Or through Canada, via jeweled Lake Louise, Banff, Vancouver and Victoria. Through Washington and Oregon, a side-trip to blue Crater Lake, and back home.

An amazing travel bargain. Reduced excursion fares this summer permit this trip at but just a few dollars more than the sum

mer round trip fare San Francisco to New York City. Any Southern Pacific agent will be glad to serve you.