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Show Highway Construction Has Made Big Progress Less t!ian ten years ago it would have been impossible to figure on driving driv-ing an automobile more than about six or eight months of the year in the rural districts of most of the states. A "touring" car making an extended trip would carry ropes, chains and a shovel to use in cases of emergency, which were quite frequent. Today automobiles au-tomobiles may be driven from coast to coast and north and south with little inconvenience. Another ten years will see paved roads to every important point, says the Kansas City farmer. No nation ever attempted such a road-buMding road-buMding program as we are now carrying car-rying out, as an established feature of state and national development. Not only are we building and hard-surfacing hard-surfacing new roads, but are widening and straightening thousands of miles of old roads. Our annual bill for building and maintaining highways is approximately $1,000,000,000. It is necessary to keep close watch to see that this money is properly expended on scientifically built highways and permanent and practical bridge construction. con-struction. Thousands of miles of feeder feed-er roads into the main highways must i be improved with a waterproof wearing wear-ing surface. |