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Show are-necessities, while our exports ar$ not, in a general .way, so regarded by consumers. , , Now that there is great ignorance with, a great many people of the real value of good roads is noticeable by the' way the roads are treated. : The-treatment The-treatment of roads in this section should be essentially different and necessarily nior expensive' than in' many other parts of our State,' but, as far as I have observed, their treatment treat-ment is different. For instance, any where in thenorth, if a man conr ducts water across' the street he has to culvert or otherwise protect the street from damage, and if damage accrue to the street therefrom either by accident' or carelessness, he is, by law, required to make the necessary repairs, and especially so where waste waters flow. Here I notice that irrigation and domestic water in some places, is allowed to. make big "ruts, and when the . road supervisor comes along with his limited force to repair the road, he fills up the A WORD FROM X Shoirid Patronize the Local Papr. BETTER ROADS WAKTED. Mr. Editor: , ' . I notice in your issue of Nov, 7th . an invitation to correspondents ' to give you information from every set- ruts as well as he can, and passing on, leaves, this abuse to be repeated, the cause not being remedied. . Then, who has ever.considerd -the point that it actually costs from 100 to3ooper cent more to freight or travel on a really bad, road to what it does on a good road? And all this in, the most "primary'' means which we have. . ; ; Now. much more might be said that should be understood, but short newspaper articles are the most palatable. pal-atable. A large number of people are in need of a sermon or conviction upon up-on each one of the points set forth in your clipping called "The way to kill a town." ' ' X. tlement for publication, which I consider is very good. Every person per-son who desires to see a successful - ' home paper should aid in some way towards its efficiency and success. There would be. but few things more valuable to this.county than a well conducted local paper, containing articles of information- peculiarly necessary and valuable to this county, and which are not contained in the northern papers published in localities where the climate. and ' topography to-pography are so vastly different. Then again, northern papers can only be paid for in cash, whereas1 a local paper can, to a great1 extent, be sustained by local productions. But it is not altogether the record of local happenings of a tirival nature na-ture births, deaths, removals, &c. that are the most valuable to a community, but information as to local financial economy and the showing up of local needs, local abuses, dangers and prospects, all written by people understanding , such matters and willing to contribute contrib-ute their talent occasionally for the good of others. Next to the value of water, water channels to convey that necessary for the production of most of our resources, re-sources, is the value of good roads to convey produce to purchaser and merchandise to consumer, as their condition effects injuriously ' the price of exports but is a boom upon the price of imports. Especially as the nature of many of our imports |
