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Show GOOD ROADS SOON IF Eneh Stats Opondo $4,000,000 For the I Improvement of Highways. llctwccn hulf u billion and a billion dollars would be saved annually In the ' Culled States It every state would lui- 1 prove Its main highways to tho highest ' point of ufftcletioy. Calculations Just made by tho Cult- , mI Ktntori otllco of public roads show , (hat to effect thN enormous saving throughout tho country It will be nee essary to Improve only about "0 per I cent of tho roads. Then? aro now about IM.'O.OOU miles of road In tho Cubed States. Two hundred thoussnd miles, or about l per cent, uro Improved In some man- ner. To brlnjr the number of ml lea up to 2d por cont it will be necostnry 'to IntVovo 2r.0.lHiO more miles. While this .Uisk may seem stupeud.ous, it Is estimated that It can be accomplished by h julhle avvrago expendltutv of $7AXK) a nille. or $l,7.'0.UW.(XX) for a fairly coirJPloto system. Were each state to pit f I.IKKUMX) Into the Improvement Im-provement trf. Its roads the work could bo iu'voiup)lhhd lu a very short time. |