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Show Good Roads Facts O000000000 It is estimated by highway experts that the extent of surfaced roads In the United States will have reached at least 4.r.fUno miles by the end of the first quarter of 1024. Massachusetts has hosrun a statewide state-wide drive against the billborrds that line its highways. The state department depart-ment of public works has been empowered em-powered to regulate billboard advertising adver-tising by the process of licensing that industry. Violation of the new regulations regu-lations Is punishable by a fine of .'.f for the first offense and $000 for the second. One million tourists visited California Cali-fornia by motor car last year, traveling travel-ing on the Lincoln highway, according to an estimate recently compiled by the automobile clubs of that state. The total was f.O per cent over tV1 number in 1022. Instructions have been Issuer) by the ninister of highways providing for the planting of 2..riO0 trees In th course of he present summer on the Montreal-Quebec Montreal-Quebec highway and the Caughna-.vaga-Sherhrooke highway. Work wll' ommence Immediately. |