Show construction of roads in arkansas progresses the cost of building roads Is always tin nu important item lord hard surfaced roads may seem more expensive but they more mole than pay for themselves tills this has been well c illustrated by melvln melvin T traylor president of 0 the first national bank of chicago in tin an address to the forty ninth annual convention of the american bankers association so clation ue ile Is quoted ns as saying much of our recent debt has been for good roads in most parts ut of the country these cost in tile the neighborhood of per mile but they add immediate increased Increase il value of 10 to 25 per acre to every foot of land they traverse und and they certainly add increased dollars to tb every item produced on farms arms bordering or br near say nothing of the comfort and happiness which save safe and easy traveling over them thein brings to the rural communities there are runny methods of providing funds for rood rond building regardless of the manner in which the funds are obtained tile the principal thing to be considered la Is that the roads shall be so built that they will render service tit at little expense long utter after payment for them Is completed any other type of construction Is waste waste which Is doubly abusive in that construct construction lon and maintenance go BO on larger and larger while at the same saine time t the ie user and those who benefit from t the le roads are arc paying an excessive cost for inadequate highways more and wider roads of permanent construction must he be built otherwise money Is being spent upon construction which soon wears out which Is impassable during weeks of tile lie year and which Is fettering the growth of the transportation system and community development it rests with tile the people who furnish the mcney whether roads shall be built for tile the present or for the future |