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Show road In aome of the counties In Ohio baa Increaaed the value of the farms from 35 to CO per cent. The aatne re ault baa followed in Marsachusetta, In addition to thla It makes It possible to haul larger load with less expenditure expen-diture of horse-flesh. Another thing, It rncouragei automobllo travel. Experience Ex-perience In Alabama shows that clny mixed with land make the cheapet road and la better than macadam. Plenty of land li available for the roads on the west tide and when mixed with that gumbo clay would make the boat kind of a road at the smallest ex pen hp. We hope the farmers farm-ers over there will get busy this fall and put In aome much needed work on the roads. BETTER ROADS NEEDED. The failure of the west side to se-f se-f -cure the rural mall route, owing chief-' chief-' ly to the poor condition of the roads la an additional reason If any more were needed why better road are needed. If that Inspector were to go over them since the recent storm he would be more convinced than ever that that section Is not ready for a rural delivery route. Mud holes and deep ruts make traveling a desperate " affair, even with a light rig, and with A heavy load the roads are almost Impassable. Im-passable. And yet we know of no sec-tlcfi sec-tlcfi Of tbe country where good roads can be more easily built and maintained maintain-ed than In Millard county. All It needs Is for the roadway to be graded up a llttlo ao that the water can run iff, and then to be occasionally dragged, especially after a rain, ao as to fill up the ruts. A bard and smooth aurface would soon be "formed upon which the rains would have little effect. ef-fect. There Is no use waiting for tbe county to do the work. Let the farm-era farm-era themselves get busy. Why would It not be a good Idea for the Water Users' association to Invest a little money In a road drag and a road aeraper for the use of the fsrmer over there? Then let each farmer do a little lit-tle work In front of his own farm whenever he can get a little time, or let a number of farmers get together And do some road making, or fix up some of the worst places. In this way a whole lot of work could be done before be-fore spring, and doubtless the commissioners com-missioners would be more willing to help If they found the farmers were doing something themselves. The last number of the World's .Work hss three excellent articles on ithe value of good road and how to build and maintain them. One writer fbnws that the construction of good |
