Show EXPENSE SHOULD BE DIVIDED railroads should share with farmer cost of building and proper maintenance of roads roada by HOWARD 11 GROSS gnoss in a large sense t tho ie building of 0 a roid road should be a local matter that is so community should have halie good roads forced upon them and the building ol of the roads should not begin until the tha majority ot of the people living in a corn munley want nant to undertake it il let the tha voters of the township or the tha county press the button that puts the tha ma calner in action it at also s 0 would bo be well ell to rom embi thit that th the e roads are public property and bolong to everyone the farmers ought not to pay all the tha taxes tor for building and maintaining the roads the are ara the feeders lor for the railway lines it Is all important to tho the rail avas that tho the highways shall be kept kepi or F ta av ap 1 r 4 V 7 4 Z A sandy road after grading before improvement with crushed stone stona in town of delton sauk county so rl in condition so the delivery of freight will be equalized there Is no reason why the railroads should not be taxed to help build the county roads the tha same may be said ot of tho the manufacturer and the city in merchant erchant who are doing business with the farmers their in teresta are bound up in his interests it if one suffers both suffer the united tates states Is 1 a great big family and what we e need is family pros prosperity perit those thosa things done that make for the beat good of all concerned there is noth ing that contributes more to this than good highways they enrich country life and make the farm home more pleasant it would be hard to con belve of a more delightful eil existence stence than to ili e upon a good farm va w ith all modern comen conveniences lences light heating and sanitation located upon a well built highe highway ay and therefore accessible to the market town at any day ill 10 the tha ear the trip being made speedily and with kith comfort investigation shows that at least tour four fifths of the traffic on the high v aya passes over about one fourth of the road mileage that certain roads have heavy heany traffic these are the ones that need the first attention and should bo be permanently improved wo we find the tha same thing in out oui railway avs terns take the trunk lines hero here Is a great city where trains are moving every thirty minutes and with an enormous traffic and wear these thesa roads have hane heavy beav rails well uell hat bal lasted and carefully maintained while a plo nener road nas a single track with light rais and ballast it Is the MN A mss ass Y T e fa t 3 z efel i fel sams same road after macadamizing Macada mizing duty one possible to build for the small traffic trade that will at first come to it but as the traffic increases so the physical condition of the road Is 13 correspondingly improved to meet the requirements the highways la in the central west anest do n not ot meet the needs of the people but the people do not always realize this we it are re too apt to got alone with what we have without to getting something better one of the surprising things about this whole road movement Is that one state will have a large amount of splendid roads arid and tho the adjoining adjoin me state tew few it any indian indiana and illinois are iao notable table instances of 0 this nearly 10 40 per cent of 0 tho Ho hoosier highways aro are improved and most of 0 jhc thc thebo o are splendid roads while in illinois uio the percentage Is seven or eight per cent can anyone imagine a reason why ully tho the people of indiana ran can afford good roads while their neighbors in illinois catnott cannot this athla ta la tin an absurd situation |