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Show PAVED STREETS SAVE MONEY Highland, Illinois, a city of three thousand population, this spring embarked on a program to pave 13 or 14 miles of its streets. According to the mayor this will actually save the municipality money, because of the tremendous upkeep cost of dirt roads. In the last 11 years their maintenance main-tenance has cost $160,000. It has been the repeated experience of cities and towns of all sizes that money spent for hardsurfacing dirt streets or salvaging worn-out paved ones is not an expense. On the contrary, it is an economy and a dividend-paying investment. invest-ment. In our modem life good roads and streets are as nec-esary nec-esary as telephones and electricity. |