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Show POORLY BUILT ROAD CREATES LIABILITY When a road is built that will not outlast Its cost, the builders are buying buy-ing trouble and paying cash for it. They borrow money to buy a liability create a debt to buy something that will be a continual expense until It finally becomes a total loss through being worn out. And borrowing money to build a road that will not last under un-der modern traffic conditions is unsound un-sound finance.- In the old days of macadam and gravel roads It was no uncommon occurrence for a county or township to have as many as three sets of outstanding bonds on a main traveled highway. The sooner a bad road Is put out of existence, that much sooner will a wholly unnecessary expense ex-pense be cut off. Not only that, but land values will begin to improve. Permai-ent road building costs money, and It is well to look at the cold-cash side of the, proposition. True, the beneficial effects upon the social and educational standards of the community com-munity are not always susceptible of exact calculation, but they are certain to come; and since a permanent road costs money, we must know there Is to be a profit from somewhere to offset off-set the cost. Something for nothing has never yet been found. Profits from a permanent road come to the farmer In the reduction of hauling costs. It puts him In a position where he can get to market every day, and where he can haul two loads at one trip Instead of having to make two trips to haul one load. These are a few plain reasons why a good road should be built, rather than continue trying to maintain a bad one. How to get a good road system is not a difficult problem If a county or township Is willing to be guided by common sense. The first step is to employ a competent highway engineer. He will make a study of traffic conditions, condi-tions, ascertain where the main market road runs, and build accordingly, constructing con-structing feeder lines to the main market lines with a type of material that will be less expensive than that required on the main market lines, and yet will at the same time meet all traffic requirements on the feeder lines. The main lines, if built with a solid base will be permanent. |