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Show THE FUTURE. OF IJURV.'ACON R0A03. lolrrrat In Tl.rlr It ..f... ritttnl I IUpI.1 Tlio tntrrcdt lu ourpuUia hlyhwayi.if lew dovcloiN.il than the lnUret in Amtrican raihva), U rapidly inerorn-luj;. inerorn-luj;. It hat breti iuLr.ted out that if tho vacant farm are to bo reinlmblted ci o fuLtorlnthelrftuoteMfulctiUitatidiwill Ijo a brttir ayitr m of common ronJf, 1 y which tho nt;rkullural iroductscan muro oaoily reach the Wa market. Tim movement for theno ImproW'l hiUwn ha nt'dri'l thoattenti mof tho governor govern-or of iulte n numUr of our HtateM, who hanatk(Hl their rvtixml Utfltlnturw to make pruilun fir Kttcr Mfterui of romlmaUnjT, and it I pn-iwoil by M'r. Clayioideta cUU injrineer writing in Tho Fnsiunrintc IMafailne, that prufe tioual roadmakla fbUiimiltH i.hnU lo orxinlztsl, wlio will contract for tho construction of highways, nt tontracti aru now taken for itio buiMlng of rail-road. rail-road. It i evident that if tltehluh waj i in the rural dim let are to U im-proicd im-proicd ition and inado Into tweful thorounlifuriH they mtut to uoitftmcted by H?ople Mho knrrtr how to makothem. At prevent tho uorktiu; out of tho ldh. way t tx by individual, or tho traiin r of thin duty to the town runhiniter, is not a method th tt nmouuti to nnj thlnu morothan n iittm of cntly rtjxitrk, Tho raintof ono pcumjit wiuh Rway the roah that hnolMenn iaind, nud there U no wIm) methoil cmplo-dln thilrcou-struct thilrcou-struct Ion which llmlt4 tho comtunt dam flKO of storm nnd lhol. TliU wiutoful R)htem hMKonen far at it oitftht to, IhoilniiiiowiuoroliiiOguott to place tlio rosiiluiakltiff in tno tmntw or tlio toto or tho county, and to lime tho hUhnnj lil 1 ollt " "I "ft renco to tho convenicito of tho lafKect nuiuWr of tho iHople. It n pilars imjHtiHtblo t w-rnro w-rnro x roir road t In the fttarKly wttlod town In any other way.tmd if ood wagon t hcrouj h fares nro dwirM hc-twttn hc-twttn iPiiNirt tnt localitlo It I no mt, re than rtaht tlat tho moro important town thonld contrlbnto largely for their rotibtruet Ion. It lin In en demonstrntetl thnt the rond which cimt the iiiit nro uaiially tho clu uptt, t)ccaud tht ro Is m ry littlu cxpenno minimi for them nftvr thejr firt tout li.ii l-cen mtt, Uiniuenthiu. nbly tho conutry 1 xrrpnrNl to putj iu u a'on road Iu n twttirroulltloti, and people w ho look at ngruultural lute rttU and tho du clop.nent of tlio I irgo towni nroii.riMl&tf tho wat-on rond in a ilif-ferent ilif-ferent light from wlmt tlioyotno did, Tlio i rrnnt impe, when bUhop of Pajru-gin, Pajru-gin, legitii U iidmlnNtrutlun of tl.e church by mix i lug out n )itun of road linprovement for tho wholo iroiuco, nnd it waa by tin mi ImproM'imntt thnt hofirnt twanio known m nn organizer that tho Church of Homo could juotly I laco In iti liiglwet ufllce. Ho wiu net content to bull I n flngle grrat roid, but ho united ono iwid with another, so that the wholo proximo w.u InfuM-d with uow life. Tho rrairh nnd the SwL nro (1 oureatnuropvun tenofliii;lmai. In tSultzerland the teople lmo made tin Irfortnuw by pro ding good common roads for tho tonriati if tlio world, nud In rrnnre, where tho lst wagon r ul-I ul-I In the wcrM nrotobofound,irerIii(r Kapoleoa orgaulztd a mvthod of road. buiiu.n,. u sllierut Liua k' pi t trol of thii p'd Ho service and tnannul it in such n wa thJt tho rural jct.pl u uf Fratuo haio bcnu rtblo Vt tako th'ir prexlint, hosUYtr MrUlublc, cheujl and qnieklyto market, and tuiko tlu Lioot of their tndti-tries. Larger Idem I'louhl prevail In thn making of our wagon ro,td. und, n n near and forcible illiutntlem cf tho ahto of good wagon read In th dentd-oiment dentd-oiment of proptrty, wo uKr to the hihwaya iu l.roekliuo Mid in tliolownn along the North hliurc. When-vtrlho highv.aa hae Wn thcronyhly liu proM-d tho proptrty hnt rapidlv in-t in-t reoAcel In rtlue. und hai been purcluiwsl by thoMt who huvo built tip the cotmiitf lilty In whkli they hnro decldeel to Hc. The two gnat principle which affect tl.o building of wagon roads f.rubuinent and ph iwure. llio Hrt ncceMlty U thnt good rondt rdiaU bring neigh1orlirM In iho together and the productr within to) nice to bl market, ond th'i leo-end leo-end it th it tho i4 oplo lu tho town nml cities ihnll bo nblu tu uo the highwnya fur social and family dri , it g Where rr in town or coniitrj good redi ucirt the proni-erlty of the community m ma to lm nwiiired, nnl with tlw more luttu.lvo cultivation ff tho land tho imiurtnnce of letter facllltieM fe,r wn;oii cgmmuni cation U greatly lucreaMd. Itofton Herald. |
