Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-02-14 | Page 16 | Good Roads Era Close at Hand

GOOD ROADS ERA CLOSE AT HAND Local Nash Dealer Tells of Importance of Keeping Roads in Condition The farmer today is facing the problem lem lent of increased production and is logically logically logi logi- cally ally turning for its solution to the saute methods that manufacturing industries have found found efficient says say'S C. C J J. J Simpson Simpson Simp Simp- s son son sonico n vice rice president and general manager of the Nash Pacific Motor l company Time saving machinery rapidly is taking taking tak tak- ing InS its place on the farm and the Importance importance importance im Im- im- im of this is evident In figures which show that during the past year thousands of ot motor trucks were installed by farmers This was made possible of ot course through Improved highway con con- The record of transportation development development development develop develop- ment Is the chronicle of mans man's achievement achievement achieve achieve- ment as his means of communication has b bettered so o has his Ills physical well- well being improved and his mental growth progressed But while our railroads have become a model for all other nations our highways until within very recen recent years remained but trails With the advent of the automobile the necessity for good roads became api ap ap- ap- ap parent n The limited radius of the horse drawn i bU buggy became entirely Insufficient f Y for the gasoline driven vehicle and there developed a real effort to Improve our highways As a matter of fact there is no logical or Intelligent opposition to I plans advanced for actual road construction tion most of us realize the necessity for for- permanent highway construction but few of ot us make It our business to see that the work actually Js is accomplished o The federal government has placed at the disposal of the t various states o esi for r road building purposes during 1919 1920 and 1921 And that the states state have f realized their necessity and grasped their n r opportunity is indicated in the fact that in 1920 the states themselves have made an aggregate appropriation of ot 1 Jl- and this in do addition to the amount e from the government The hand 1 era ra a or of B good d roads seemingly Is at at