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Show NEED OF HIGHWAYS SYSTEM Concrete or Brick Surfaces for Heavy . Traffic, With Macadam or Gravel on Other Roads. (By D. WARD KING.) What we need, and in time will have, Is a system of highways which will ramify from the largest cities to the doorway of the humblest citizen villager vil-lager or farmer. Such a system of highways will Include trunk lines with expensive concrete or brick surfaces for the very heavy traffic, including trucks and automobiles. Less used but Important roads may be of water- i i King Split-Log Drag. "-bound macadam or gravel. Perhaps In certain regions where stone and gravel are not at hand oiled roads may prove most economical and practical. prac-tical. Minor wagon ways must remain re-main of native soil, built and maintained main-tained with the road drag. Meanwhile antagonism to road dragging breeds in a lack of information or a narrowness narrow-ness which fails to comprehend the facts. |