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Show PAYMENT FOR GOOD BRIDGES Deputy Minister of Highway of Ontario On-tario Advises Taxpayers to Pay for Them by Bond Issue. No matter how good the surface of ronil limy lie. If the bridge lire weak and lh- culvert! poor, (lie hiuhwny In fnr from satisfactory. The minimi rec-onl rec-onl of bridge failure under ttMTMhlBg machine mill other heavy loads' makes a kMS "xt. Hnd ttio cost of repairing the iiiiiiuiil damage to poor culverts la a liirjr' sum. In progressive communities, com-munities, therefore, strong steel mul , concrete bridge and well liullt oul- J : I Kj Substantial Structure. verts lire bSlllS -onstrnctid before expensive ex-pensive ronil siirfiiritiK ts done, hujh Indiana Farmer. This work is often paid for out of the annual tax levy for roud and lirldje eoiist ruetlon, and nbsorlis such a lartfe part of the funds that too little money Is left for gradnm the surflic- , Inn. (Jood bridges and culverts are permanent struetures, and the deputy minister of highways of Ontario, Hon. W. A. Mel.enn, has advised the taxpayers taxpay-ers of that province to pay for them by a bonil Issue where the total expenditure ex-penditure for the purpose Is large. In sneh a ease he suggests compiling a complete list of the bridges and culverts cul-verts needed, preparing plans and es-titnates es-titnates for their construction, and then financing the work so that Its cost will be equitably distributed owr a period of years rather than be concentrated con-centrated on the taxpayers of a few years. Where there are few of these trtlClUrei and none Is expensive, the policy of paying for them out of the rnnual tax levy cannot be criticized, in his opinion, for It does not Interfere nppretfabiy with satisfactory progress In grading, drainage, surfacing und maintenance. |