Show THAT MATTER OF GOOD ROADS A New Haven Conn paper estimates that automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile tourists spend a year car in Connecticut cut every summer and that of this comes from outside the state That simply means that Connecticut has good roads The rhe same thing applies applies applies ap ap- plies everywhere If there were good roads up and down this valley valley roads roads that were smooth free from irrigation ditches tile the the automobilists right here lucre would spend in the valley a great many thousands of or dollars every year that the they do not spend now If it were possible to go out here in the evening and make an hours hour's run to some station that station would pi pick k up a fi gre great reat t many dollars in the year year year- car enough to build and keep in repair a good road between between be be- tween this place and aud that station tation And Aud this town has only beb begun m on automo automobiles iJes There will be a great many more next summer than there have been this and there ought to be some preparations made to give them a chance And it should be kept in mind that what would be good for the automobiles would be good for carriages We Ve expect tho the rage for automobiles automobile to have its edge worn off after a while but the desire to own and drive a good team will never ne weaken And then there is a great deal of freighting in the tho valle valley On good roads that freighting might be done with one- one half the teams and half the vehicles that arc are engaged now flow now and consequently half the men m-en now employed There is not one argument against good roads while there are thousands of arguments in favor of them and we s e once once more re suggest that if the county jg is too poor to appropriate the tho needed money moncy to make a few Cw good roads Broads o then it would be better to let private companies build build- toll roads for when a man llan manis llanis is rich enough to own tn O an automobile or good team or has freighting to todo do he would I rather pay a fair toll over a n. good road than to togo go on wallowing over irrigation ditches and aud bumps The world is growing fast Every glow ng year ear a saving sa of time is studied more mor than ever before The rhe idea is is to get ct the most business done with the least exertion exertion exer exer- tio tion and in the s1 shortest space e. e |