Improvement In New Jersey

At last year's session of the New Jersey legislatura an act was paased which is givin, great satisfaction in that state. It is c;i1ím1 tbe rounty road law, the objivt nul pulpóse 0Í whidi is the aequiro luent, iinproving and maintenance of public roflida. Concerning its operations, a proilrinent resident of the state roccntly .said to a Xew York Muil and Express reporter: ■"The eounty road act provides that my piiblio road in any county of the stute may be declared a county road by tlie county board of ohoson freeholders in fchnt eounty, and becomes such by the filing of a map with the clerk of the county ctefinlng the road; and that money may l raised ly such board for the struction and caro of all mich ruads in any county. Union coünty is entitlod to the credit of this new syatem. Tho act was preparad and presen ted by ita citizens. wlio have for soveral years deemed soine soch ro:id law a noccssity for tho permanent iniprovement of the public roads in central New Jersey. "Union county has availod iteelf of this new law to a greater extent than any other county in the state. lts board of freehoídersi usaaimoos in favor of the law, procëèded at once to declare .is Coünty roads the principal roads lèading froni Elizabeth to Ilahway, from Rahway to Went field, f roni Elizabeth through Westfield to Flainfiold, from Plainfiuld through VVostfield to Sprinyffield, from 3priltgflell to Sunmiit aml from Elizabüth te SpriiiLificld. "üin; hundred and fif ty tliousiind dollars luw airead v been rai.sed for niacaduuiizing these roads and for kecpin; iheui in repair for one year. Tluy have all been surveyed, the maps tiled with the county cli'rk, and hundreds of laborors, niostly Italians, are now tmgeqjed m their construotion. Stono crushers, of which thero uro a half dozen or more in the county of Union, are running to their full capacity, cracking stone for top dressing, while scores of teams are hauling stone in blocks for tlie solid foundations. No stono is used in the construetion of the3e county roads except trap rock, which is all (uarried from the mountain.s in Westfield. This rock abounds in these mountains and the Bupply is inexhaustible. "The whole appearance of the Hes whero these roads are being constructed is changed for the better. Before any stone is used the bod of the road to be macadamized is brought té & grade, the high points being ent down and the low places being filled with the earth taken from high point. "The new county roads are very popular. Thoso few who fearcd tlie cxpvnse at first are now inore than sutisfiod with the improvementa as th?y progross, and it is safe to say that thoreis not a tnx payer in the county that would have the new law repealéd or the old condition of things reslored to save the .small expense iucurred. County roads under the ntw law will soon become general in most of the countios in the state, especially if built with the economy, care and thoroughnoss wliich characterize the present board of ckosen frceholdors in Union county. We want more county roads next yoar, and the present board to construct thein, or i board equally as good."