Show BIG GOOD ROAD BOND ISSUE dakah county texas votes for construction of complete belt line prepared by the united states department ot agriculture the largest bond issue ever submitted in any county in texas and one of the largest doted anywhere in the country ratified by a big majority recently in dallas county texas it provides for a complete belt line around the county with 12 roads radiating from dallas to all sections and six intermediate roads con the radial highways the system provides for miles of road and in addition feeder roads amounting to about one hundred miles will be improved by the decrease in maintenance expenses federal aid building a hard rock road amounting to had been allotted to dallas county for its highway development and it Is expected that a large number of motor trucks will be assigned to assist in the con work the favorable reception of the big bond issue in this county Is expected by officials of the bureau of public roads united states department of agriculture to have a favorable effect on similar proposals elsewhere road building in texas Is at high tide state highway engineers estimate that more than worth of roads are now under con WIND HELPS ROAD BUILDERS when used in construction of high ways in new mexico experiment Is successful A new method of using the wind in sand road construction has proved so successful that after making a nine mile experimental stretch in new mexico road makers in that state have built 80 miles of similar highways first of all the grass and weeds are cleared from the right of way and then a trench Is made through the sand to the clay bottom the loose sand is deposited in stacks ten feet from either side of the cut and the rest of the work is left to the desert winds during the spring and fall tho winds sweep away all the sand and widen the clay strip then the road Is graded and the work finished COUNTRY NEEDS MORE ROADS improved highways influence every branch of economic and financial structure there Is no doubt about it the country needs more good roads it has become an economic necessity that our roads be improved because good roads influence aery branch and twig of the social economic and financial structure of the nation good roads decrease the cost of living bad roads increase it good roads ave labor poor roads spend it A community with good roads lias an unlimited trade area while a community with poor roads has trade area IGNORANCE PARTNER OF MUD motorists complain that farmers in bad roads districts know moth ng about roads As a rule lenorae ln orae accompanies mud many motorists in bad roada districts stopping to ask a farmer in for mitlon about roads not ten miles away hae found that the farmer id acer trae cd so far wiy and could gle no directions up to people interested the of state and national aid to road construction and road improvement pro mill depend upon the interest the take earth road Is foundation the eartle road Is the foundation upon which all other surfaces are placed and upon which we should depend for the load carrying capacity |