Show F AA 0 PS efard sr I 1 F rr CN L ZEV 9 J ai stone roa a is the to be derived from good goa stone roads are so manifold that all other miter al should be discarded where tough road stone Is available for their construction and mabute nance but it is greater economy to use earth or glaiel rai el than to go to the espouse expense of maca macadamize macada danitz ng n raids with too soft too brittle or rotten material many us this because it Is aare easily prepared IL road should never be sur faced with anything iny thins thing short of trap rock or serpentine ingnor material may often be used with imp anity for the first iab la er or foundation but even this should be elected with great care cire the f k ils resulting from improper colstr ct on of stone roads are even gr ater thin those from the use of aral i op er matei al john L macadie never intended that a heterogeneous 0 ston stoll and mud shoals be callad 1 a macadam roid Is either neither did he intend that the name should b applied to roads constructed of large and mill traill stones mixed to tether and upon the surface the marfice of a road built in this manner is constantly ri c stubbed by the arger stones which work to the sur face and which are inoel ed hither ind th ther by the wheel of vehicles and tle feet of animals such methods of construction can not be too severely condemned interest Tn terest or of town towns and atles ties the intel interest int elest est of towns and cities in good roads is easily demonstrated demorst rated and in many cases is already well under stood by these communities the whole people have equal rights on the country roads and those livin living 0 in the cities and towns havi hav often greater need of them than the farmer who at a pinch could live upon what he raises while the cities raise nothing and could not live a day without the country roads the farms of the united states corn com prise less than one fourth of the total property of the country yet that small fraction pays the whole cost of build ing roads the injustice of this tern tem which we have inherited from the old countries but 1 aich was abol ishad there many years ago Is not yet fully appreciated by the farmers of this country and the greatest dif faculty now experienced in road im provement pro Is in getting the farmers consent to have this injustice wiped out and in inducing them to accept he the aid which the cities and towns are willing and anxious to give to the general improvement of the highways the surfacing of roads A great difference in roads lies iles in the matuie of their surface on a well made gravel road roid one horse can draw as much as he can on a well made earth road while on a haid and smooth stone road be can cin pull four times as much consequently where we have havo good gravel roads in stead of earth ones it Is possible to make one horse do the work of two while on stone roads one horse will do the of four on a level steel road one horse can do the work of twenty or more horses over a level common road after a road has teen been properly cocat ed graded and drained ane Import important int qualities of hardness h and smoothness should by all means be secured the various surfaces for rood country rot 8 will be considered in the following order barth larth gravel aal an 1 stone toll roada for motor car cars perhaps the only way in which auto will get good roads as speedway speed was for them themselves selNes alone may be by a revival of the old toll road system which prevailed in new eng land in former generations it Is no v T found in indiana and a few 11 estern states and quite frequently in the south such roads are constructed by private interests which demand vary ing dividends in the manner of any in vestment it if the ats sue aie willing to pay toll toward an iu in 0 mobile road this will be their privilege adv road that the government ma max build will be tor for common use and would probably be monopolized by ie jle i e farmers who nho still look 1001 askance at the automobilist boston advertiser A convincing demonstration when the members of the legislature of Nir virginia ginia 0 the roads of new jersey they found them covered with newly fallen snow which the barme 3 removed rec oved so as to th tha firm smooth surface ben abenath be nath nth this demonstration ind the fact that wet met snow cud md not make the macadam road muddy were worth more than any amount of ment and the N V arg wins went hone to their impassable highways conye t ed to road improvement mean aali an ir nt there Is civilization ehll enlightenment and economy in good roads good roads lead to prompt ai 1 steady at upon church services school room duties neighborly intercourse and socail advancement t bad road lead to profanity worry trials and tribulations and the loss of teams vehicles patience op les for fo good markets and lots of time A rop i liar lar question the good roads people v u ant the state to contribute many millions to fo their cause and probably the question will be submitted to popular vote in the near future in spain the dally daily wage of a field laborea ranges from twenty to awen ty eishe cent cents board |