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Show Good Roads THE counties of southern California have expended ex-pended millions on the public roads during the past year and now a proposition is on for the cities and large townj to expend as much more. It has become a habit for people from adjacent ad-jacent states to go to California this year and then to make an automobile itour all over south- -ern California. It would be interesting to get the real figures of such expenditures during the past year. It has been so great that the whole population there favor good roads at any cost. The real cost is estimated at $8,000 per mile and the reports agree that the roads are superb. The next most interesting item would be to know how much tourists have paid for automobiles down there during the ipresent season. A great many have gone all the way from home in their own machines, but many have gone there by rail and purchased the machines in California for touring the state. If horses read the papers there would be many a forecast among them that their mission was about over. But certainly the experience of the past year in southern California Cali-fornia presents a strong argument to prove that good roads are not only a great blessing, but are in themselves a strong factor in the progress of a state. |