Show ROAD MACHINERY convention from the fourteenth to the eight benth ot of january there will be hold held in chicago ille the greatest exhibition ot of road machinery materials and methods ever staged in the history of 0 road making it is difficult to estimate the importance a great exposition either from the standpoints ot of the road builder or tho the road buyer the intimate contract thus made po possible isible between maker of machinery and ma m ker of material can not baill buill but aa aid id both to d do 0 better work the bringing together of 0 so many different ways of 0 road making must be of incalculable value to the road buyer the county slid and state engineer the road supervisor and the taxpayer but perhaps the greatest benefit torm form this mutual contract of 0 the forces which are behind the good road Is in the laying before the country the magnitude of othe othe effort involved and showing forth to the world what progress has been made in the hard surface highway idea twenty years ago before the automobile was more than a toy the road idea was dead we need roads the roads we had were good enough to spend money for roads was foolish th the railroads gave agave all the transportation necessary roads were merely an expense a luxury not an asset such arguments were common there were no road builders there was no road building industry today to day there are thousands of engineers hundreds ot of firms making hard building machinery and products tor for hard road malting making and there is not a state uninterested in modern highways not a county which talking good roads not a farmer who realize the need ot of them this great road exposition is a re of the times and the sentiment which is behind roads hard roads the sort ot of roads which minimize the hauling cost and give the maximum ot of speed and intercommunication the road exposition at the coliseum in chicago is more than an exhibit it is a monument to alie the modern idea ot of transportation |