Show WEST VIRGINIAS BAD ROADS farmers lose immense sums each year through their inability to get products to market dad bad roads in west virginia cost the state a year declared A D williams of morgantown Morgan town state road engineer to a washington on post representative the other day 1 I mean by this that at least that much money is wasted every year by reason of the inability of the farmers to get their products to market thousands of tons of apples and other fruit garden truck and food supplies are arc allo allowed Ned to rot in the orchards and gardens because the toads roads are too bad to haut haul it to market just to illustrate joe swope editor of a county paper noted that hat lie he was paying one dollar a bushel for apples A neighbor in an adjoining county sixteen miles away wrote the editor and said he be would inguld 1 I ma i ka well graded finely built macadam road in west virginia give the ahe newspaper man all the apples he wanted if he would haul them away the building of good toads roads is a tremendous mien dous economical problem sot not merely one of convenience the anto automobile to undoubtedly has been largely dil instrumental in bringing about the good toads roads movement or rather in giving impetus to it that and the high cost of living we are principal factors in the general campaign now going on in many states for good roads west lest virginia this year will spend in improving her highways the different counties having voted bonds to that amount and in the ft N hole united states the amount spent fo ta good roads this year will probably provably ably reach last year we spent about and the increase this ye year arwill will be lully fully 20 per cent I 1 belleve believe |