Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Commissioner of Highways for the State of Maine, for the Year 1905 Had we been elected road commissioner of any of the towns or cities in Maine last spring, we would at first have made a thorough inspection of all the roads in that town for the purpose of learning their mileage and condition, and as far as possible, their needs. We would have taken a team and driven over every mile of road in that town and made notes of everything that appeared to need attention. We would have decided from this inspection which would have taken several days the relative amounts of travel on the different roads in the township and in this way would have formed a pretty good idea of the roads needing attention first or those of the most importance. Every foot of road that in our judgment was reasonably safe for travel would have been put down in our note book as such and it would have been recommended to the selectmen or street committee under whose authority we were, that such portions of the roads as had received the comment safe should be taken care of through the season with the least possible outlay - that just enough money should be spent upon them to keep them safe until such time as money could be had to permanently improve them. These roads would have been cared for under the system of maintenance described in this report. 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.