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Show jlMPROVED I; ROADS Location of Highway Is Most Important Matter Much Is now being said and written In regard to good roads. Some one has said It Is a very serious question for the people In every section of the country to consider. That li my sentiment senti-ment also, says a writer In an exchange. ex-change. Whatever kind of material li used In the construction of tbe road, be It concrete, brick or sand and gravel, It Is being built with a view for all time to come, therefore the location lo-cation of the road Is a very Important matter to be considered. Are we going go-ing to follow the old trail that our forefathers blazed for themselves through the forest, which now looks, since the timber has been taken off, like a cowpath angling through fche farm? The traveler Is bewildered to know what directlo he Is going. No, let the roads now be located on section and half-section lines when It Is possible to do so. Even If It costs more it will pay for several reasons. It will add so much to the looks of the farm and country. It will avoid much danger from automobile traffic which Is on the Increase every year. It Is easier to construct a road on a straight line than on a curve. And last but not least we are building new roads for the future. Some day farms will be made Into smaller tracts with the roads located on section lines and they will then be easy of access. Let us consider well the future Importance Im-portance of the location of the road before we eomrnffnee building for It will mean much to us now and the future fu-ture generations. If good roads mean so much to the country let us make them as straight as possible, eliminating eliminat-ing short curves and sharp corners and we will have a road easy to follow with less danger. |