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Show UURABLE ROAD SAVES MONEY Saving of Eight Cents Per Ton Mila Can Be Effected in Transportation Transporta-tion Costs Alone. S . The report of the Joint congressional congression-al committee which Investigated hlgll-way hlgll-way economics In 1914 shows that tt saving of eight cents per ton mile can be effected In transportation costs when a road Is lifted from the dirt to the durable class. This does not tako Into account increased real estate valuations val-uations or social advantages, resulting from the Improvement. |