Show I Better Roads Increase Use of Motor Vehicles Improved ed roads throughout hout the country have been largely responsible for the great Increase In the use of motor vehicles In recent years because because be- be cause they have made travelIng easter easier and more rapid and have bave greatly reduced reduced re- re the cost ot of operation of motor vehicles The average a motorist Is bound to realize that a good pa paced ed road r re reduces duces the cost of drIving an automobile automo automo- bile by savings effect effected ell an n gasolIne tires and repairs This much Ls Is apparent apparent ap- ap parent when he contrasts the results of his drIvIng over a rough dirt road rond and that over a good even surface such as concrete pavement But he probably will not keep an accurate check on the savIngs effected Figures complIed compiled by George A. A Pond cost accountant at the tint tint- farm St. St Paul Minn show that better roads were perhaps the I greatest sIngle factor In reducing the automobile expenses for MInnesota county agents durIng 1923 1023 The cost ot of operating cars cars' carso o of county agents In Minnesota In ha 1023 was less than 57 51 per cent of that In 1020 Mr Ir Pond says In a a bulletin Last year fifty six county agents reported that they ran their automobiles automobIles automo- automo bIles an average ot of miles each at a total mile cost of cents f while In 10 1920 0 one fifty county agents covered an average ot of miles of 1151 cents each nt a total mIle cost All but two or three ot of the machInes were lI light ht four cylinder cars While other factors entered Into the reduction In operating costs Mr Pond credIts Improved hIghways with the greater part of the savIng |