Show PLAN ROAD improvement township map shows public thoroughfares ough fares can be connected with every little hamlet A continuation of the presentation of the suggestions of the good roads committee of the illinois bankers association so brings us to the practical pir plan an presented lor for the improvement of 20 per cent of the highways of the state says the breeders bleeders Bre eders gazette we quote it has been estimated by the united states office of public roads that 15 to 20 per cent of the roads mileage carries over 85 per cent of the traffic nineteen thousand miles of improved highways would give us improved roads crossing the state from east cast to west every six miles also roads crossing the state from north to south ev ery six miles that is we would have an improved road running east and X 7 township map west and one north and south through each toNn township ship as shown by the accompanying compa nying map this township map shows that it if improved hIgh highways NaYs are constructed across the state every six miles in both directions out of quarter in ill each township will either be directly on an improved impi oved road or vitha one mile of an improved road in very few townships are roads laid out along all section lines the 1600 townships in the state do not average quite sixty miles of country roads to the township hence twelve miles of improved road will cover more than 20 per cent of the country road mileage in each each township AA A A represents the twelve miles ot of main improved roads BB B B represents the roads only one mile from the improved road dark shading represents the forty four quarter sections lying directly on this main road light shading represents sixty foul quarter sections lying on a road only one mile distant from the improved road thirty per cent of all quarter see eions would front directly on the improved roads while an additional 45 per cent would be on a road only one mile distant from the improved road nineteen thousand miles of highways built as suggested would reach about quarter sections or over farms of acres each which is the average size of the farms farm s in illinois in other words of the farmers in this state over 30 per cent would have an improved highway running past the door wallo an all additional 15 per cent of the farm ers would live on a road only one mile distant from this improved highway these highways crossing each town ship in both directions would of necessity reach practically every village and hamlet in fit the state and conned connect w with ith all of the through highways of ad joining states the building of the connect connecting ting r roads 0 ads can be taken up by the townships and counties as fast as the main roads are improved important factor good roads are really a very im factor in the advancement 0 a community beyond a doubt they exert a profound influence in better ing farm conditions not only che cheap p ening farm productions but in ing farm life more congenial by bring ing the farms closer together and thereby improving social conditions w which are at present partially responsible for the young peoples dissat dis satis ic faction with country life prevent muan i trouble rouble careful use of a drag on a dirt road that is aheady in III reasonably 1 food co c condition O wrid almost entirely prevent trouble from ruts mud holes or dusts dust and give good service at low cost roid road weather warm weather should remind you of road weather as well as baseball weather or seeding time efficient road drag for general effle efficiency lency at low cost it to is hard to find a machine that beats the road drag |