Show 0 ROAD MAKING IS IMPORTANT work should be done in late spring or summer to get well settled before cold weather road making is a matter ot of a lot ot of importance to the city man and the farmer aliko ailko many thousands of dollars are expended annually in this work par far too great a per cent of the work Is done in the fall all sometimes anning clear into the winter tor for the good ot of the road and tor for the judicious expenditure of 0 the money tho the road that is made in the late lata spring or summer becomes well settled and solid before the freeze 0 of the tha winter season and it if properly taken care of is a good road all winter we have driven over a good gond VOL LT a ze road drag Is essential in putting roads in good condition many miles of roads during the last winter made tit in the late tall fail that were all but impassable practically all winter A new road made in the late fall all can hardly kelp but bo be rough all winter this kind ot of road means a lot more wear on the auto a higher gasoline expense and a very much general wear on oil the car it also means that the farmer canno cannot thaul nearly as heavy a load with his teata team and a quicker wearing out of th wagon in the rural districts a lot of road work is done by voters working out their poll tax this work is generally done when they can best spare the time which Is in fit the tall fall it the men who do this work would consult their best interests we believe they would arrange to do it in the summer even it it were not so convenient and it cost them more road overseers who have this work in charge can help in this line more than anyone else it if they will but try a lot ot of this work now done in the fall all can be done when it should be this official clat should look more to good roads than to his own convenience twentieth century farmer |