Show statistics der C could CI I it 1 ap fd with oat out AP aarl I 1 apo the nere are it t Is estimated boom BOO billes 1 of rowlie r dg in n the aptt I 1 go per cent ct of the road rondo lall the world gr great t britain bail ba 1 mites of roel wry and nd them are M so boroa I 1 is ot at the us bftts lit the virld ars many has ba 1 mile of road roads 4 40 of them are an a poor no the rond of 0 a ta can bo 14 france which has najeb an enlightened view viewed of the good roalia doai for many yean years and hu has pent by or local a roert ot j more than any other country alunia with an tuon laor nou area only milea of 0 roadways road waya while italy a smaller country haa has 1 or a considerable UBO 0 o the agitation la in the wara states for good toads ian angshed Hu ani libed shed tor for the reason that by the Ameri american cun leitem of out local authority what business 1 li 16 nobody busi busich cm and nd coutry cr lea being frequent aa am to tu the liability of 0 national oat ionaL AL itaf or municipal authority for or lived ful expenditures very little we was dun done tb the hat lonal learno for yet good roads wai was in I 1 to awaken general interest la in the Imp ment luent of public rums road do to the ali luct methods of building and maintain ing theta aud and conduct and tooter oab such publication publications ai as may serve these pur pores at the of the he aalta tion the rood good road toads did not etuale much be alway BLU AL it wn WAS not until ibe the popularity ot of ti cycling grew abut be the demand for improved roads bo be amno organized ci and since then consid erstle headway lied dway haa has areu made A cou cow put atlon which cud much lutch favora motia the advocate ct good road roads la is this theta aro tire approximately though tb the number is steadily on the decline 14 acnes in the united state states there were ly by the of pad and there are about quales pr la in the routis the an nual dual out ct of fodder fo tos ahse animae being 1400 on lue too roads cue hone horse can haul is much as a three throes herpes can haul baul over thu the average dirt road toad ct of this country jt I 1 that it would be necessary to build about I 1 flo iino ailcy f roads la in the united hiatte iu in order to ai a a of public high j oya me is iu in erceal several european artates at 14 i a buile thia this would iu in volvo an outlay cf cl fa 4 pretty large sum out but if une balf half of thit tb draft animals could bo doured with by the lulleice Lull Luil dice ding cf ct neb such road roads then lbert woold would I 1 an annual V TOO 00 1 in the hid H id bill it 11 road boud bonds acre ismea bearing 4 ii cent fist erElt OCO of nine roal could bo built without the annual 11 1 I bew lork bou |