Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-05-06
NATIONAL AID IN
SECURING GOOD ROADS

coast have been improved, but the
tanners havs been taxed. almost BE-
yonI endurance, to haul through mua
and slime and slush and water, Ia
maoria65 Tor freight that make rae
SIC petty af thc railroads, tn canal
ANA tBo. steamship lfnos. Railrga =
Hage F. eited ~ o4o.eHo acre Of ne
pa4'Ie domain and bayv til crrdt ot
the eayefument for buudIed--c II mil
lions of d9lia.s in ad or thor c9a-
strlytipn.
In Twenty-Five yeas tHc appr0p5I
ations to rivers aed habo.s aavo# H.. IL
$4>ooo0,aoo For the year fae@. MS
appropriation amounted to So io149.
The farmer have helped cy.ry iao Of
business. Let these now help Tho ia
IN Is build good roads
National Movement
This movement i'll favor Of good
aDads is national in extent. II ma Il
the beginning Of a newer and brighter
era. 1t is a movement 10 iHcreas
the profits of the farnera. the rail-
roads and The tladosmaH and TO multi.
ply many fold the comforts and peas.
urg $ OF every citizen, There is no
better evidence of Il high civilization
than good roads They are the local
arteries of traffic reaching 6Ht to
tot, i,ip ~, o. lIr
fivulets of trade, which swell the great
streams and oceans of commerce, that
give employ ment To millions of peo-
pie, with reverting ptoft to the pre-
elucers The heaviest burden the
farmers have TO endure As that Of
transportation Of their products over
bad loads. Prosperous commu-
mites are often the result Of good
roads and in turn good roads are an
index to the prosp rity and enlighten-
ment Of the community.
1t is estimated by competent publ
cists that $500 1000, 900 are expended
annually by the farmers of the
United States i'll moving s. 800 100000
worth OF produce ever bad roads to
railway stations, and to markets.
This is a tax IA cents on every dol
ldl $ worth Gt produce that goes to
MAJ ket Il is further Sstimated tha'
at least twothieds Of this may be
saved by the use af good roads or say
500 zoe ,ooo annually
The export rate fer hauling wheat
from Chicago 10 New York is - ID
cents pr Loo pounds or 81 cents pof
Iashels. The regular rata=is=iS caHt5
per loo pounds. which is l0.S= cents
per bushel. Now. to haul a ton OF
wheat. which is approximately 40
bushels On tn dit roads VII eest
"a cents per mile; for ten miles $50.
That is To say. 6 Ii cents per bushcl
lor hauling the distanve of ten mites,
While il is carried Loco miles on the
railroad fer 9.3 cents per bushel In
other words, it Will cost a. much to
IdUl llIH w meat ttil illllNS w q WI
road as it will cost to haul il 665
miles over the railroad or about sixty
six times as much.
1t is the proper end of government
to reSlce this w'relched waste OF
abor TO the smallest possible cC:n-
pass, SO that the powers of nature and
the labors of mar may be made to
yield the highest degree of physical
and moral good.
How to Secure Good Roads.
How shall We secure good roads :?
How shal We save the immense sum
now being worse than wasted? Man
ifestly it will require great outlay
to make good roads, but the outlay
will not be greater than We are now
paying without receiving any benefit
whatever. Take the amount We now
pay by reascn of bad roads and apply
it to the building Of good Gnes and We
Will have an investment that Will
yield greater returns to the many
than any other that can be made.
This Improvement of our roads ought
to be done by the states, by the Coun-
ties. by the districts, by individuals,