Show 77 i 1 j AL VY MUD j ROADS TAX L r Paid d Annually Dually By Farmers And Road Users B Because cause of ConI Con Can I of Public Highways Highways' i Laok of proper perc perception of th the I advantages of good roads is ls costly ignorance on the tho part of the public F Tho postoffice department has made madean an nn estimate of Vh what t it could save if it t had good roads for Cor its mail routes f throughout hout the United States tates Aco According Ac- Ac cording to these figures if it o every fl post road in the United States welO l made mado a good road it could reduce its W operating expenses a year 2 L f. When it is considered that less than i. i igne half jone-half half of the roads of the United J States s are post roods roads and nd that the travel travel of the mail mall carriers does not tits h f amount to over 2 per cent of the then n 1 Y tr traffic filc on the majority of our highways highways highways high- high ways ways it t is easily easily seen how much the tho q lack laek of information on the good roads ft question is costing the tho people If the tho mud tax of the postoffice- postoffice r department department depart depart- ment ment is nearly a year it may be assumed that the bad roads t ta tax of all people is ia about I enough in a a. few years few years to macadamize every important road in the Unit United d 1 States 1 Every dollar spent spent- in proper Improvements improvements im Im- of the tho highways is re returned returned re- re re-I re i turned with good interest in a comparatively comparatively com com- Y short time Increased travel over the tho roads means increased t. y t amounts of city money spent in the smaller towns n and villages Decrease Decrease De De- crease in cost of conveying convoying produce l. l to market means increased profit to the 1 producer Ability to reach a tf i r 7 market at any time of the year j. j n means means a. a better a-better selling price for the producer as this selling Belling price is governed gov gov- t. t orned by tho law of supply and de do det demand t maad mand and by the same law the the- cost f t L. i. i 1 to the consumer will be reduced bec because because be- be c cause use the opportunity for the middle I t man JUan to buy up and hold large quantities v ties of produce will be 00 done ona away x f with |