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Show BENEFIT OF GOOD HIGHWAYS Main Market Roads Reach Majority of Producing Areas and When Improved Im-proved Land Values Increase. Tho road-bulldlng specialists of tho United States department of agriculture agricul-ture In bulletin No. 13G, entitled "Highway Bonds," havo tho following to say about tho benefit of a well-constructed highway to property owners whoso property Is not directly on tho rond to be improved: In planning tho highway system or tho main market roads it will bo found necessary to omit many roads tho Improvement Im-provement of which is grcntly desired by abutting landowners. Tho fnct that such property holders must pay a tax for the bond lssuo la only an npparent injustice, for If the highway system Is well planned tho entire county will feel tho benefits of tho improvement. As a rule, main mnrket roads reach tho majority of producing areas, and when thoy nro improved all land values val-ues tend to increase. tho fact that cities and larger towns aro frequently taxed for bond Ibbucs to build hlghwnyB outsldo of their own limits is Bomctimca mado a mjmmmwsKwWjxiBtiSufmmmmmmMjj LbKIHv9Qibbb1bvbS8Sb svBbbSbS9bbSbbbbbmi ummBmsStrmifSM 3fS9SSS&Smmmm -P'fmSSmmmmmmmmu iii-l-Wi'-Kmmmmmmmm f 5-3Wfcfc'Tt v v.yw'mmwmmmmmt Improved Road In the Woods. point of debate in bond elections. It Is urgued that because n large part of tho county wealth Is within the corporate cor-porate limit of such cities and towns highway bond money should Also bo used to construct their streets. It Is even urged that tho expenditure should bo made proportionate to tho assessed valuation within tho city limits. lim-its. If tho proceeds of highway bond Issues wero distributed in this way, their purpose in many caseB would bo defeated. Tho primary object of the county highway bond lssuo Is to build county market roads and not to lmprovo city streets, although a high percentage of tho assessed valuation valu-ation may be city property. It is now known that tho expenditure of city taxes on county roads Ib a sound principle prin-ciple and that it Ib one of tho best features of state aid for highways. In Massachusetts tho city of Boston pays possibly 40 per cent of the total to-tal state highway fund, but not a mile of atato-ald highway has been built within its limits. New York city also pays about CO per cent of tho cost of the state highway bonds. Some stato laws prohibit tho oxpendituro of proceeds of Btato highway bonds within with-in corporate limits of cities or towns. The improvement of market roads results in Improved marketing conditions, condi-tions, which benoilt tho city. Most cities are essentially dependent upon tho surrounding country for their prosperity pros-perity nnd development. The development devel-opment of suburban proporty for residence res-idence purposes is also dependent upon highway conditions, and it Ib becoming evident yearly that whatever what-ever makes for an increase in rural population must be encouraged. Since tho introduction of motor traffic country coun-try highways are used to an increasing increas-ing oxtent by city residents. In fact, tho cost of maintaining many country highways has been greatly increased by the presence of city-owned motor vehicles. The general advance in facilities fa-cilities for dolug country buslnesc from town headquarters when roads are Improved is no Inconsiderable factor fac-tor In tho commercial Ufo of the community. |