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Show Good Roads Notes ICnilurance under extremes of beat and cold is one of the severe tests of pavement. In F.lsmarck, N. Dak., the maximum temperature recorded is 10S decrees, while the lowest temperature tempera-ture on record for the city is 45 degrees de-grees below zero. Concrete pavement In Bismarck lias stood this test successfully. suc-cessfully. One of the great blessings to rural communities, made possible by good roads, is the consolidated school. In 101 S the United Stales bureau of education ed-ucation reported 10,500 consolidated schools in the country. This total lias been considerably increased since then, as the movement is rapidly gaining gain-ing in popularity. Because of the Increased congestion in automobile trallic the Boston Post road from the New York slate line to New Haven. Conn.. Is to be widened from its pr. sent width of about IS feet 10 30 feet. It is In Iim among t lie broadest broad-est highways In Hi" country. Bids for 2:15 miles of highway Improvement Im-provement work, with 24 new bridge and bridge alteration projects, to ba let by the Minnesota state highway commission, Indicate the state Is pushing push-ing ahead fast on Its highway lin oroveoiem program. |