Show BENEFITS FROM GOOD ROADS increase value of every acre of land adjoining correct principles being followed slowly but surely farmers are everywhere coming to the realization that good roads increase tho the value 0 of every acre adjoining or in proximity to them and that the best of land will be hard to sell it it can be reached only through heavy muddy roads the greater portion of the year in so far as our section northern indiana la Is concerned the progress in making good roads has baa been quite marked during tho the last five years says a writer in r farmers armors review As aa soon as it was announced that the lincoln highway would have its course through our section tho the value of farms lying along and near this course increased to quite a degree in some instances as much as 25 per cent it la Is really astonishing how bow foolishly t the e methods of road making were formerly carried on farmers had fallen into a habit of working on the roads roada in a very different way from what they wa worked aked on their own farms it often looked as it if some come feared they might do more work than their neighbors hence they were determined to do db less sometimes in fact nearly always tho the most incompetent roan man in the district was chosen supervisor and lie he often had groat great difficulty in prevailing upon the farmers to do enough work to enable him to make proper returns to the th commissioners another matter quite noticeable in those days was that in making roads all principles of good road making were as a rule violated no effort was waa made to drain the roadway it was simply thrown up a little higher thau than t the he roadsides so BO that when the heavy baltis came the tha water instead of run ning tiang off would settle into the tha depressions made by the wagon wheels and remain there until slowly evaporated the ruts ruta in the meantime growing deeper and deeper the farmers themselves despised the roads heartily As to materials tor for toad road making it was tho almost universal rule to take taka that most convenient it it happened to be good gravel well and good but it 1 t i da vt 5 i a u v s u i t itt inyim happened h a 1 p en e to bo b 0 sand oa n d it was wa s tho B ame tt thou dut t in th these e so days day such roads will no longer be tolerated we have la in northern athern indiana any number of good gravel beds and from these gravel to Is drawn and spread upon the roadbed to a good depth in the course of a short time it Is possible with such good main 41 na X v A 0 w f ute pass pass near colo aerial and a knowledge of how bow to make roads to have a hard bard smooth highway that la Is a credit to the district and a delight to the traveler even la in sections where gravel cannot be found naturally it has been found a paying proposition in many ways to get it snipped shipped in by rail |