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Show WANT IDEAL ROADS. The Farmers of Dn.vn.1 County, FIs., Are llnilllil In llttrn Tlirtn. The good roads nssocbtion of Duval county w 111 make it ils business to prepare pre-pare n good ronds bill, to be prct-ented to the next legislature lot enactment into n law. That's IiiisIiicmi, nnd the projier way to get right down to brnss lucks. This Is the ago of good roads, and Florida, should not lug behind. The good roads movement In Duval iniinty is one (lint Is sure to permeate every county In the state, and we should not be surprised to sec a stato convention of good loadsdelegalcswithevcry nook and crannv of Florida represented, the outcome of which ought to bo systematic sys-tematic road building. What n magnificent development would remit If the coilntlcs would unite and say one to the other, if you build n loa'd to inydmundnry, I'll build one to yours. The state would soon be. grld-t grld-t roued vv ilh roads, nnd every road would be lined with fntins, simile trees and hedgerow s. The farmer could get his produce lo maikct chenper nnd his children chil-dren to school easier, and the education thus obi .lined would find itawny back Into the soil and out of I ho soil again in more plenteous crops, for education Is as essential to the farmcrns tohimwho would attain success In any vocation. Ideal rond building would Is- sure to bring ot her blessings. When transportation transpor-tation Is mndegood It Iscusy to Induce the government to put into effect Its mucli-thniight-of extension of the pos-ml pos-ml deliv.-ry system lo the country. This would cnnldi tin' fanner lo keep lu touch with Hie woitd, to get his dally; paper, and toappl lo his business what lie reads ns constantly as the man of tho ills applies it tu his. Kvcry county has at Us disposal cou- lets win se work should lie nppllrd only to road building. II would b'uN'ttcr If Iho Idea went even further nnd becnine enncted Into u Invv that required not only tho iniiiity convicts lo do no other woik Ihiin rond building, but state convicts con-victs as well. I'ndcr tills plan no convict con-vict would be made nn nneipml competitor com-petitor of an honest v agc-enrner. Jacksonville (I'ln.l Time Union. |