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Show FIREMEN IN RURAL DISTRICT Construction of Hard-Surf aoed Roads Enables Fire Department to Protect Pro-tect Farmers. Dullns county, Texas, has made It possible for the. rural districts to obtain ob-tain protection from tho flra department depart-ment In Dallas through tho construction construc-tion of modern hard-surfaced highways. high-ways. A contract executed recently between the Dallas City commission and the county commissioners provides for fire protection to farmers on nil paved roads within a rndlus of 15 miles of Dallas. When a farmhouse or barn along a paved road catches fire all the farmer has to do Is to telephone tele-phone the Dallas department and It fa '.-" ' '" "' 'i f , "-. , : Fro Apparatus on Hard Road In Country. will respond at forty to fifty miles an hour with a chemical engine or a steamer as occasion may warrant. Dallas couuty Is one of the first In the country to make such an arrangement. arrange-ment. Several fires have already been extinguished with small loss. A general gen-eral reduction In fire Insurance rates In the smaller towns and farming districts dis-tricts has been the result. The service . will be made more extensive when the big road building program now under way In Dallas county Is finished. Farmers Farm-ers affected by the arrangement are reported re-ported to be delighted with the protection protec-tion afforded. |