Show OUR C UR WIDE WIDE ROADS I CIn II In Ie connection with the movement I for fr good goad d roads In the tM United States Stales SUit the theft t fa ft fat t must be taken to Into consideration tG that the roadways s in the states state laid kid nut out in sections section of Mt tint acre aftIN each are arc re unnecessarily wide and anel the expense expanse e of 8 putting them into shape sad and keeping I than In fairly good condition is la 1 t enormous on this tJ a account Ii Like kc the streets of Salt lake Lak the tb farming fa lands of the west were went Wd NId out ut on a nt scale plenty of fifI I land in both cases whet when the original surveys s were re made madei i arillO between bet n the road roada of d this c and Germany its has recently b 1 been t n made by Conrut Cow ul Thompson of Hanover 11 au ner and the result alt Is Ia not flat flatto to the United Sat States elerman reads roada at are perhaps subjected t f i a hundred times time more inure than similar roads roada in the United States Sta These f roads range from frem twenty to thir thirty ty t y feet in ill width while in our middle to toor or western states sta where bere the Ute traffic tra tc hi is II om lip light we tame tab land bind of f fan an average erase value of HI per acre and t ut lit it up with roadways sixty feet I In width practically of t sane being given ghe or eT to weeds which h furnish an inexhaustible supply 10 of t I weds seeds f ds for fw the lj ining farm lands huida The fanner farmer in Jo C many who has co con conquered the weed weeds on ml n his ground need have hat no thought t of d ti their b being wig started Marled again a aill from rom uncultivated and if f JV fur r land And along a lon the roadways Th There Thre re I arc no roo weeds n mud or chuck holes holf io s si i no ri and sand stretches In the roads road I lk Io k ki i 3 t i 1 s g Into tin tilt valleys from front om one of the th thet I t of nt k 10 lookout Iut towers t f Wv ha vo h b wi phi pLu ed d on the summit ot of o i in nearly n arly every high elevation of or land or 01 I III lt II l ii o i mountain in Germany the roads 11 t I c I before ones one view lew like bright white rib ribbons I bone bons running past at squares Quare ot or green or brown fields along the verges of cult cultivated rated woods wood and binding village to I village solution on of the first and most Important problem of or human economy and evolution that of or transportation It hi is not an as R infrequent sight when traveling by h rail raJi through the more level stretches of f country In Germany France Fra or Holland to tee see an automo automobile automobile bile flying Hying over some main highway parallel with the UIe railroad ed easily keep keeping I ing tog pace with the train for miles it being generally necessary ar to slacken speed only when passing through the larger villages vii and towns and never on ona account a nt of poor roads reeds It Is I not probable that the American roads will be e narrowed and therefore the t problem of f road reed MIlking melting will have to be solved ed in a manner Manner The one thing certain at the present pre ent time is III that they are a In a deplorable condition most mo t of the Ute tine time and aDd more or less of a disgrace to the Use most pro progressive prove progressive ve nation on oa earth IN I many 1 ways waS waSI I |