The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-31
GOOD ROADS.
a recent issue of Texas Farm and Ranch contains
the following editorial the subject Of good roads,

a recent issue of Texas Farm and Ranch contains
the following editorial on the subject of good roads
Good county roads and good practical agricultural eduea
ton are the two things needed to make this country and
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delivery and needed facilities for reaching market shipping
pursuing and life worth living With good roads would
land would be occupied with farms and rural homes There
would follow suburban rapid transit and city business men
6nans s ab Would estabb his af feedng piaee and Io
the jewellers and the police force would alone
orchard garden would be but little Improvement
tegen and progressive business men come to the help Of
the farmers there will be emulation and progress and agr
be LETT oppose the teaching Of agriculture the pub
turer the lawyer physician and the teacher would
their voices with that OF the farmer in general demand
districts be taught their children The farmers of this
day need just such stimulus this condition would supply
There has recently been inauguated in different
parts of the country including the South good roads
movement that has done q great deal of good.
Specimens of what good road should be have
been laid and by instructive object lessons the people
have been shown what be accomplished in this di
rection.
The good roads movement should not be allowed
to be general movement, producing good re,
suits only in those particular parts of the country
where the people readily led to perceive the adj:
vantages that derived from the improvement Of
the roads State and every county in every STATE
Snouu take up lle question ana systematically organ
ize plans for the beterment of the carry
the work unintermtently until good roads everywhere
become the rule instead of the exception.
Particularly is a systematic organization of this
particular kind of public improvement needed in Tex
as, which, the largest State in the Union, where
from its size distances great has need of the long
est roads and greater number of them and the best
that can be constructed
| Good roads are an economy in the end. His crop
is of value to the farmer only when he haul it to
market to the railroad for transportation to market
The expenses that the farmers put to in haulin,
their produce Of bad and imperfect roads
foot up to appalling total More wagons more
horses and mules labor in caring for the teams
and in driving them required by the lack of good
roads; in many instances farmers have been prevent
ed from marketing their crops at all and have been
compelled TO allow them to rot in their barns or on
the ground because the roads have been impossible
Railroads OF little help to the farmer if he can not
haul his produce from his farm to the railroad BY
the lack of good roads the farmer suffers as we have
shown and the railroads lose freight But this is not
the full extent of the evil The whole public Of con
sumers suffers too in the enhanced price of commodi
ties produced by the farmers extra hauling expense.
and by the scarcity of produce often caused by the i'm
possibility of getting crops to market