The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-05-21

Australia and New Zealand countrlea newer than ON,
asn less popuicua. and with netting like cur aEgre-
ante wealth The fact thar the Of the world has
ssnod roads while have bad ones Ii significant; N
shows that the plan have been pussuns has not
been saecessfal In three hundred years less than
eight per cent az the highways Of our country have
been permanently improved and the rate We are go
ins 4 would require nearly four thousand years TO
ccaplets The lob. 10 roadbuIlders the people OF
me United States have been failure.
This 10 all tho more surprising when We eonsider
thai they rnnspicunasy In every other
line e hamsh endsasor. Millions upon millions OF
dollars have been wasted In every state the union
upon The pubic roads BY ilitimed mlsdiroctsd a.
fort ard with really tery little TO show for the en-
psndisnre 4 b only within the iss, ten nf,een
wears That real has baen Ade along the
line 81 permanently Improving the conditions
The trouble 10 ve have been endsavoring 60 un.
tanne The snar BY pulling the string Without
Any reason for uinK tho farmers of the country
Maine "a California. from the very hgst assumed that
the country reads belonged them and Ii was their
sakinsss 70 Improve them. and this miseonccpon held
sNAy for nearly 500 years
A lev PEARS axo mxn 10 Nsw Jersey made dis
covery- II that the Highways public property.
- much ss tho state house. This raised The aues
top. why. n the highways public property. should
NOT the pabllr take Of ~ why should
state and al property therein eantrbats building
ths seadsy Everybody y Interested In them. every.
hody 10 affected through the markets by the road con.
diHions thsy bearted by good roads and injured
b. hid The thought spread throughout the
state ans anas New Jersey led the way 10 ee.sr
diions BY passing Law By which the should con-
tribus~ oneshiFd the mooney required 10 Improve the
sozas other states followed Increasing the prupor.
tion 70 cne half and IN case. Massachusetts. 10
three fuWsths.
In many cares cs the New England states farm
property 10 cny very ANAL portion the total taxable
pfopefy. In per event. and when the
u mad improvement distributed over ali prop
efty o. the stale the burden hardly felt aud vet
isnmenss were raised for Rad purposes Heat
q all The roads eaiit under proper sapsrssloa
issse<d ~ ieasiag 4 70 the hands Of the
iosss path massss
Ten pears aso Mes York state began In q snan
ssx 20 aia a9d spprDpassd sseeeo 10 start the woFk
The pisn sFs~ 10 ss9r rapidly sha, ~isha ass war.
u's Fssta By rshelnasax passea runstsfe.
uonsi afnahdusa pFusIdnx for of ts0a0o 600
IL beads 70 help basld tbs kixhwsss What . record
IN hss yeass from hfty tho9ssna nifty milsos The
fNx aseNk1Ay "a tha Interest On this enoFnaoas
sam aad thea naAas psy % the bands siEl hardly b.
Fen ~ the property Of this Empire stats owing
70 their tnimsnss llat Of tsaahie property
Ohio. EftsE 90 years u baalgs roads hy the ola
tisn o. local axatioa aad hora isaEea ia which the
fArsn*f had 70 pAy practically the slsols hu has
PASSED State aid Law which viii enabis a 10 sua
hrss miles ~ Improved uhefa IL has besn huilA
1nx one without. amp inereasa whatever in taxation
upon farm property.
fifxnis b she hrss souih.rn state 90 iuln the
stats ac column for GOOD reads Kensneky IL alive 10
sns Situation Ans ~ taknx change Us enaati
sosen ~ vfrsf 70 BE- Ia spread tie road tar
s. csW ~ ms property II tho
- cefzin psfts Of the conntry notably IN III. Mis-
ezapys valley. there 10 mlzconcepoa a. to
Ae Ne ssa1e aid plan Of road building nasans som.