The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1892-06-09
WHO SHOULD Build ] !. THIN 4 I
a Dissertation on ths I'm
portant Subject Of Ooun-
try Roads
ny Hon Glenn. etudeba-
lker. of indiana.

BY whom shall country roads b.
builtY To intelligently answer this
question We should know who are
benefited by the roads. To generslize,
would, fot the purposes Of this
article, divide these into two claases,
individual and governmental, and
these again into two sections each,
the first into inhabitants residing 10
the country and those whose homes
are in the city, and the second into
state and national. Let US consider
them separately.
The individual living on the line
Of the highway. He needs 9
thoroughfare by which to carry hts
produce to market: by which to visit
places where the necessary supplies
Tor his household and. farm can lie
obtained; and by which he can send
his children to school and carry his
family to church. to the railway
station, or on other trips required BY
necessity convenience or pleasure,
Country roads are important to the
townsman. Without them the
merchant could not supply. his city
customers with the butter, milk, eggs,
vegetables, etc., received from the
| farm, or those products which be
buys for shipment to other markets,
nor could he count on the farmer as
customer for groceries, drygoods,
boots and shoes, and other necessaries
and comforts of life. The merchant,
the banker, the manufacturer, the
lawyer, the doctor, and more or less
! directly everybody in the towns, II
J interested in country roads. IL
4 passing, ! may say that enterprisint
' merchants in many places have beel
so fully alive to their interests MS t.
secure the building Of country roads
J at the expense of their respectiv
g towns. often for several miles int
n portions of agricultural districts fror
! which, under the influence OF goo
roads, they might naturally expect
It large demand for their goods Ever
(" town, indeed, is largely depender
I" for its prosperity upon the trad
. which it derives from the surrount
1T ing country, especially il it is not
l. manufacturing town, and there ca
re be no doubt that it would be none
,e we'll expended for towns 10 a
= literally in building fine countl
ae roads, which would serve as feede
to these centres Of population.
vs. The national government Is great
interested in country roads. The
at are great numbers OF small tow
np throughout the country, which mu
ke still receive the United States mi
.. over country roads. Not only tn
ed but civil officers OF the natior
on government, in the discharge Of th'
ed duties, must use the, public highwa
ith from one end Of the land to the 9th
ire And still further, in case
insufrection OF rebellion, requiri
the the Intervention Of governmt
70. troops in such case good count
ich roads become Of the utm'
ent importance. If there had been
Sill government road like the old natiol
YER post road, leading from Fortr
of Monroe through Yorktown 8
300 williamsburg, to Richmond, \
ties Clellan might have ended the wal
and the spring OF 1862. As it was,
the army had not only to strug
Of against gallant opposing force
ten its advance on the Confedei
ary capital, but to contend as well, K
are horse and artillery, for every roc
sry- the way through unfathomable m
and Miles of log roads had to be b
,uld before cannon or wagons or artill
ring could be brought up, and prog
ugh under such circumstances sapped
i to strength, energies and courage
oft officers and men, Stuck in the
Go; Virginia clay, while pulling one
out they got the other in,
will thousands of lives were lost
efin- precious time consumed thre
the making efforts practically as I
as those made by flies roote'
adhesive ny ypaper. II the cou
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