Show GOOD ROADS INDISPENSABLE Highway Improvement Is a Business Proposition With Farmer and I City Dwell Dweller r. r I r ji When n It takes four horses horses' to pull pullan an empty wagon to town and wheat Is going gong off In price each day when the mall mail carrier gives up In despair and the children cannot get to school chool the tho farmer farmeI cannot help wondering w how much this condition Is costing him each day Figure as he hc may he cannot get getaway getaway getaway away from rom the fact tact that good roads are Indispensable sable to agricultural prosperity pros pros- verity The city dweller r Is alike concerned The farm on a g good od road has scores J of possibilities for the development of Its resources to every one ODe open to the farm fann on ou a poor road Increased expenditures ex ex- greater greater buying powers In the early days of poverty many a county bonded Itself for fOl hundreds of ot thousands of dollars to secure railroads railroads railroads rail rail- roads to promote agricultural development develop r ment Three-fourths Three of all the freight the railroads haul must sooner or later move over the public highways and J every ton so moved Is costing at an average rate rae of 23 cents per mile mUe Verily road Improvement Is a business business business busi busi- ness proposition proposition-a a matter of dollars and cents |