Bingham News | 1923-09-08 | Page 7 | Hard Roads Movement is Gaining in Popularity

Hard Roads Movement Is Gaining in Popularity The hard roads movement Is gathering gather-ing power as It moves. T. C. Powell, vice president of the Erie Railroad Co.. Is reported to have said, "The time has come when the nation's railroad fa-I fa-I Hlltles are so heavily taxed by the I enormous tonnage offered that there Is only one way in wnin we inj h--, freight hauled. And that Is by asking business men to employ motor trucks f(1r the short hauls, say, up to thirty miles or so, thus releasing railroad facilities nnd equipment for the longer haul which can go by no other means"