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Show HIGH VALUE OF GOOD ROADS Cost of Hauling Farm Products Over Common Roads Is Twenty-Five Cents a Ton Per Mile. After careful Inquiry it has been found that tho averago haul of the American farmer In getting his product prod-uct to market or to tho nearest shipping ship-ping station is 12 miles, nnd tho averago aver-ago cost of hauling over tho common country roads Is 25 centa a ton per mile, or tlireo dollars a ton for a 12-mile 12-mile haul, saya Portland Orogonlan. " tjl An estlmato places tho total tona W hauled at 300,000,000 a year. On the I I estimate of threo dollars a ton for 12 r, I miles this would mako tho total coBli ' . A 1 of getting tho surplus products of thdj ' i I farm to tho local market or to the I railroad no less than $900,0000 n 1 figure greator than tho'AmernjJK ox- ., pensos of all tho railroads owBlnlt- '(&j( ed States. If anything could mBj. an VsR V I argument for good wagon roaBV1'' 'r statement surely may. BT |