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Show j -I il ! M ! I-I I"I"l"H--I"I"I"I"I"I"t-I-H-H j Good Roads Hints M-H-H'H I I I-I-H I I I I I '1 'I It is said by research workers that ' motorists save annually $l,xiO,0X,- j I 0CM) by the use of 280,000 miles of j gravel and hard-surfaced roads in this i country. I If it were not for schools and hlgh-. hlgh-. ways It wouldn't cost much to run he state, but If It were not for ; schools and highways, It wouldn't be ' worth running. ! ! Our highway program seems to be ' well stabilized at approximately $1,- 000,000,000 a year. It Is the largest ! public works Job the world has ever known and the freest from corruption. corrup-tion. Kansas will have 8,640 miles of I paved highway In 1040, according to Walter Van Buck, state highway engineer. en-gineer. The state of Alagoas, Brazil, is building the most Important automobile automo-bile highway it has attempted in recent re-cent years. Canadian hicliwny development last year cost ?1 "0.000,000. There are about 400.000 miles of highway in the Dominium 7, per cent of which a-.-unimproved earth, 10 per cent gravel. |