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Show Good Roads Should Be Maintained Aside from their economic radio Including lowering of food prlojg, enhancing property values, brlnl.itf the farmer closer to tho city, and to his neighbors, and stretching the tlio business radius of (owns nnd Cities Cit-ies the building and mnlntenanco of good roads could be mote than financed by tho saving to the operators opera-tors of automobiles nnd trucks, do-clnrcs do-clnrcs K. K. Kantzer, Salt Lake store manager of the B. F. Goodrich Bub-J ber company. A test conducted In Ohio recently, lo determine the Bnvlng In gnsollno from running over n good road no compared with gas consumption over ov-er bad, medium grade roads, disclosed dis-closed a surprising difference. Willi, five now -army-standard A truck"! with bovoii dlffctent types of rood I service, showed a gain or six miles per gallon of fuel between the bestl nnd worst types of roads. All tho trucks woro empty during tho test. Tho trucks loaded showed that tho poor road took seven times as much gnsollno per mllo as tho good ones. Tho test results showed an average av-erage of C.78 miles per gallon over a dirt road In good condition, 7.10 over fair gravel, 0.35 over gool gravel, about tho same over fair bi tuminous macadam and good bjick roads, l"l.44 'ovor extra smooth bMjl: and 11.78 over good concrete. The saving to the motoring pib-llc pib-llc In gasoline alone would nm,.V, to millions of dollars annualy. Perhaps Per-haps ckua to this would 'be the s.i Ing in tires, which is considered n (an important item of car upkeeo, m (ls gasoline. Calculating the savins In wW nnd tear on the mechanlsn o! cars and trucks and also the itji:i I of tlmo lost by poor roads, adequile highways are undoubtedly a sane In vestment. |