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Show i . ! Ioiva Motorists Save Hure Sum liy Road Paving AMES, Iowa, Dec. 21. huge sum has been save ! by Iowa automobile owners in the past five years by extensive ex-tensive paving activity, according ac-cording to R. A. Moyer ol the Iowa State college engineering engi-neering department. In Iowa $03,000,000 has been expended for 3,-!00 miles of paved roads. According to Mr Moyer, $55,000,000 lias been saved by this mean;-;. The figure was determineu by combining findings or the college experiment station that it costs two cents more a mile to drive n auto on an average dirt ioad than on concrete con-crete and one cent more on gravel with gasoline tax receipts re-ceipts and traffic survey records. |