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Show The Highway Age Historians of the future, looking back on the first quarter of the twentieth twen-tieth century may well consider it the "Highway Age." In 1900 paved roads were almost unknown. un-known. Uneven dirt or gravel surfaces sur-faces were the best even urban locali-tiees locali-tiees had to offer. And in rural districts dis-tricts the suffering farmer struggled through mud holes and over roads un-distinguishable un-distinguishable from cow paths. The change made in little more than a quarter-century has been epochal. F'-om coast to coast broad, smooth highways stretch, an invitation to the business man and tourist. In progressive pro-gressive agricultural localities old gravel and macadam roads are being given a waterproof surface with oil or asphaltic materials at moderate cost, thus modernizing old roads and. providing pro-viding a feeder system for main highways. high-ways. ' Of all the tremendous progress of this century none has been more pronounced pro-nounced than that made in road building. The person with an automobile auto-mobile can range hundreds of miles a day. The result has been a lessoning of the provincial spirit and a breaking cf barriers between farms, cities, states and even nations. |