Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-06 | Page 5 | Expenses Cut by Using Good Roads

EXPENSES cm By Cost of Hauling to Farmer Is Greatly Increased Through Bad Highways. That an immense savins could be effected ef-fected each year through' good roads cutting down the cost of delivery to the coal dealers, who would, in turn, it was predicted, reduce tho prico of coal in the ratio in which their traflic expenses ex-penses wcro lowered, was the conclusion reached by members of the Granite High school agricultural class after an experiment yesterday morning. The experiment ex-periment was conducted by Professor L. B. Ball, who asserted that much of the high cost of coal to the fanners is caused by the heavy hauling expense ' over poor roads, and that good roads will materially reduce tho price. In Salt Lalce county, not including Salt Lake City, tho inhabitants use about 70,000 tons of coal n year. Nearly Near-ly 7000 families, with an average of five in the family, was estimated by the students. Practically every ton of coal is hauled by the dealor to the homo, who. charges 75 cents extra for his sen-ices. This rate of transportation transporta-tion is charged by tho dealor for hauling haul-ing coal to any dfstance within a Tadius otf three miles from his place of business. busi-ness. In this estimate factories, smelters, railroads, storehouses or laundries -wore not included. The conclusion reached by tho class was that the farmer paj-s his tax daily. In every case where the farmer is compelled com-pelled to uso tho roads his profits are decreased by lack of good roads. The experiments performed by the Agriculture Agricul-ture club members showed that a horse which could pull, a load weighing 1000 pounds on pavement could pull only 250 pounds on an extremely muddy road with a 1 per cent grade. According to the results obtained by the club, the ono factor which will help the economical conditions of Utah is the good road.