Show will WW your road roda stay open this winter COLD AND WET WEATHER 1111 hollingh INGS TRANSI DORTA TION 1111 tolly jr A good road with a boulder blocking it Is of no more value that it it did not exist for boulder read snow and ret got the problem which t the e middle and northern half of at tho the united states has to faco face every year A rood good road covered with deep enow snow la Is of no more value than if it did not exist the bureau of public roads of the department of agriculture makes a denito effort each year to try bolln to interest more and more hig highway htway off I 1 ceals in the matter of keeping snow bound roads open to traffic more and more every year both state highway departments and county road or are seeing the wisdom of spending the money tor for snow removal experiment has proved that a snow plough attached to a wagon and pulled by two or four horses can clear inexpensively enough of a highway of to enable it to be used on very well traveled roads a complete snow removal Is necessary but for many highways a partial snow shoveling meets the demands of the traffic ac lowered in amount by cold weather it Is slowly but surely becoming recognized that the main roads are as much needed to keep down the cost of living and keep up tho the doing of business as are the main streets of cities and towns the individual shovels his own snow path from door to street the town shoulders the responsibility of keeping the street open to traffic why should not the county keep its main trunk line roads open and the state do the same service for its principal highways in its last analysis it Is up to the voter it he wants open roads he can have bave them by saying so it he wants to save money by being snowed up he be is the greatest suffer sufferers sut fereri erl |