The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-07-16


way as the Romans famous Appisn
Way, basing the cost at the very
highest average of $4,000 mile.
! Though macadam roads sometimes
difficulties of swamp or bridge work,
on easy grade near the source of the
rock bed, the average has come as
low as $4,000; in New Jersey, for
| instance.
The beauty of the relentless
scheme of things is when we mend
our ways--in this case, mend our
roads--Nature not only wipes out
the deficit, she puts plus to the
account where there used to be
minus. Surprising of the 100000
miles of roads In the United States,
all were improved instead Of only
seven per cent, what would be the
result to farmer and consumer?
First of all, the big deficit of waste
on haul, on storage, on cornered
( prices-wiped out! The minus goes
off the national slate and the plus
comes on.
| Good Roads Reduce Distance.
| The good road moves the remotest
farm right next to the market
| farm twenty miles from the market
on all the year round good road is
nearer market than a farm seven
miles away on bad road. Truck
farmers in New Jersey and Long Is
land can haul their produce TO mar
ket, thirty miles, cheaper than they
can ship by railroad; and that pro-
duce nets, according to well-known
averages as follows:
Fruit, $50 per acre; flowers,
$1,000 per acre; corn, $S per acre;
wheat, 81 per acre; oats, 81 per
acre; vegetables, SAP per acre.
Out in the Dakotas and Minneso-
Ia and Manitoba they haul their
produce thirty Snd forty miles; but
they can haul it only when the roads |
are dry in the early fall; and at that
season the price is lowest The far |
n,er along the good road can COM
mand the hest nrica nv hauling only
whom the n,ica Is hest and he can
also raise the produce that gives
hfrgest Not returns IF Won would
learn why whole family can live
and riz,e we'll off an acre in Holland
and Belgium and France. when
! family often fails To live weu off
hundred and sixty acres in America
lst,1dy that table of farm averages in
! relation 10 the GOOD roads.
/ One can hear the snort Of derision
I from p sIsPptfc as he asks If the in
ference is with good roads YOUR Da-
/ k0ja farmer could grow flowers at
! So 600 an acre! No. it is not but
mere is the inference: With good
roads. your Dakota farmer-who
lander present conditions drives hub
IJeap in gumho mud during spring
!c,,ild market his crop when prices
ruled highest instead of selling his
wheat AT 1 u ana 81 Genus III the Ian,
! he couId sell if at 81 during the win
! ter and in the sDring. prices of
iS1 20 ana 81 20 which Mr.. Hill
inredicts. / eliminate because the cor
Inering which brings such prices is
largely the result of the bad roads,
which throw an entire seasons crop
into the hands of the spectators
An additional price of even - cents
a hushel would mean $15 100000
more in the pockets of the Canadian
| Northwestern farmer similar
amount to the farmers of the Dako-
tas and to the wheat farmers of the
Pacific Coast Purely as an invest
tment, the wheat farming states
igholld wake up: for only one of them
has entered the good roads move
tment with yigor
With good roads you would not
need to buy your vegetables in the
Icountry. In many parts of New Eng