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Show MAINTENANCE IS BIG SECRET Great Folly to Spend Money In Construction Con-struction of Roads Neglected After Completion. Maintenance is the secret of a good rond system. It Is great folly to spend money In the construction of roads which are neglected after their completion. com-pletion. Volt's Intelligence and diligence dili-gence is used In the upkeep of a sys- JSt SSf j UisBi Hounding "Dead Man's Curve." tem 'Of roads their value will depreciate? depre-ciate? under ordinary circumstances faster than new roads en' . be constructed. con-structed. It is therefore essential that after. a road Is once built, great care should be taken In Its upkeep. There H no question that the cost of proper maintenance Is many times saved In the increased economic value of the highway traffic. Maintenance may be divided into two general clusses : First, the upkeep of roads which have been constructed along standard Hue with minimum gi tides, proper drainage mid surfacing surfac-ing material ; second, the conditioning of mails that have hud little, if any, constructive attention. Highways coming under the first class are not so liable to he neglected by those entrusted with their care, and while their maintenance problem Is a very Important and necessury one, this class of n.:nls represents only a lesser portion. The greater percentage percent-age of roads in the state are not improved. im-proved. Inasmuch as this clnss of rouds serve the inujorlty of the people ami this kind of road will always predominate, pre-dominate, it is very necessury thut at-leiiiinn at-leiiiinn be directed to proper waysund means of their maintenance. Bach yeur more or less construction work Is being done and the mileage of Improved roads increused, and while this work is going on the unimproved rouds should be kept In as good condition condi-tion us possible ut u minimum cost. The best results cun only be obtained ob-tained by the enthusiasm and locul pride of the man who uses the road. He Is the fellow most Interested, and a 81111111 amount of Intelligent attention atten-tion by himself and bis neighbors will show great results on their particular section of the mad. This raW applied throughout the length and breadth of any state would mean a system of eurth roads tint could be pointed to with pride. |