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Show .... . IMPROVED ROADS Location of Highway Is Most Important Matter Much Id now being said and written In regard to good roads. Soma one luiB mild it Is a very serious quifitlou for the people In every section of the country to consider. That Is my sentiment senti-ment also, says a writer In an exchange. ex-change. Whatever kind of material Is used In the construction of the road, he It concrete, brick or sand and gravel, it Is being built with a view for all time to come, therefore the location lo-cation of the road Is a very Important matter to be considered. Are we going go-ing to follow the old trail that our forefathers blazed for themselves through (lie forest, which now looks, since the timber has been taken off, like a cowpnlh angling through the farm? The traveler Is bewildered to know what direction lie Is going. No, let the roHds now be located on section and half-section lines when It Is possible to do so. Even If It costs more It will pay for several reasons, it will add so much to the looks of the farm and country. It will avoid much danger from automobile trafllc which Is on the Increase every year. It Is easier to construct a road on a straight line than on a curve. And last but not least we are building new roads for the future. Some day farms will he made into smaller tracts with the roads located on section lines and they V.III then be easy of access. Eet us consider well the future Importance Im-portance of the location of the road before we commence building for It will mean much to us now and the future fu-ture generations. If good roads meun so much to the country let us make them as straight as possible, eliminating eliminat-ing short curves and sharp corners and we will have a road eusy to follow with less danger. |