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Show tt--)f Good Roads Notes die-way national roads may be the next thing in thoroughfares. With noise rapidly becoming one of the serious problems of city life and the increasing desire of employers to reduce the nerve strain of employees, the advantage of silent rubber street paving is obvious. The great advantage resulting from doubling the width of the miin highways high-ways leading into Chicago, as is now-proposed, now-proposed, is that it will afford better facilities for people to get away from the place. Nevada boasts with truth that it has a highway paved with cold. An analysis analy-sis of the L-ravel being used in paving pav-ing the highway between Ruth and V.'.y shows four and flake gold hut not ! in commercial quantities. 4 It required 2.tVn.C!ti fr.-i-.-lit enr- to haul al! the mo'e;- vehicles. snpMies. equipment and road maler:ai t.roi:;:eod ill the l'n:ted Slate-.- nsf yr.-ir Auto- ; mobiles alone o.-rvi 7;o.iio f -i l 1 . t cars, while g..--o!:r.o and lubrica-ing oil were transhipped in 00:1 t;i;,; ,-;,rs Al!li't!) tlv e::ar-t stale of roa.l im provei-oiiT in Tnited St-ies -it the present time is not known, it is estimated esti-mated by tl,. I '-roi .-1 ment of Airrieul-ture Airrieul-ture that the total r 1 1 i 1 ; 1 r' e of snr fared roads ai the end of 1 !tJ4 lVils he tween -r.n.'Ji.'O and -IT.'.O'xi miles. |