Show the evolution of A highway it is 3 interesting to lo watch the debef ot of a modern road system the writer has in mind a section through the coast mountains in oregon tor for 75 years this country was practically inaccessible 6 months in t tha ho year to anything but a man on horse back or an empty wagon due to td muddy roads in the last laet 6 5 years io roads roada through this section have leen been graded grafia and macadamia ed and in a single day in july the Ift number limber of 0 automobiles that made the trip from the interior valleys to beach resorts over one abt I 1 of the roads numbered into the thousands farmers can take their products to the trains and the country has been opened up tor for settI settlement Alent the result Is that traffic is so heavy that it will vill probably be cheaper to pave the macadam in a few short years than keepin keepit in repair the crushed rock which has been thoroughly packed by heavy tra traffic file will make mak e an excellent base for an concrete wearing surface without further heavy cost tor for preparing a base thus does a thinly settled section of the country gradually acquire an all year round road which develops the country so rapid that a practical and comparatively inexpensive liard hard surface treatment is required within a few years after the original inal road was built it is almost sate safe to say that the country can grow no faster than its roads and it Is interesting to watch the evolution of a highway from the mud hole dle stage stae to the paved surface |