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Show RECORDS IN ROADS During the last ten years, the United States has gone in for road construction on a scale never before known to the world. It is estimated we have spent in that time ten billion bil-lion dollars for road building and maintenance and have more than half of the world's 6,500.000 miles of highways. Money spent for roads pays dividends divi-dends in promoting agriculture and industry, facilitating business and drawing strangers from other places on social or business pursuits. A county or state without good roads is condemned to retrogression. retrogres-sion. In spite fo our record building activities, ac-tivities, the demand for roads is more persistent than ever. Our secondary sec-ondary road system must now be rapidly improved to properly open up territory contributary to main highways. |