Show POOR ROADS ARE EXPENSIVE inefficiency costs southern states a year to cart cotton to railroads the post cost of bad roads Is strikingly met forth by wm win C redfield secretary of commer cinn president wll wil cabinet in this manner the inefficiency arising from bad roads makes it cost something like a year to cart our cot ton crop from the fields to the rall rail way station I 1 think few people realize the immense tax auton put on us all by bad roads and inefficient handling I 1 have bave said eald that it if our farmere ance realized the awful tax that bad roads impose upon them public opinion would sternly demand them the making and maintaining of good roads everywhere it now costs the farmer twelve yes twenty or more aimee as much per ton mile to move mova his hid godda to the cho railway station as it domoto doam to move them on the railway after they leave the station the filamer it fiL indeed in bod bad cases and it certain seasons may have to pay as much as 1 a top ton mile while the railroad carries the freight when it j once gets it at an average of thres three f quarters of a cent per ton mile among the factors which bring up the cost of at living there are few which stand ahead of the useless cost of transportation due to poor and often roads roada poor roads roada not only make the consumer pay more for produce but they rob the producer of that which should bt added to the price paid him bigi for his produce there are few But lecta on which the public is so eo ulamous amous un as aa this oneff the cost of poor oads and yet at the same time few subjects on X it Is harder to biake aake people agree as to the remedy and where the should be token taken |