The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-04-21

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the condition of the roads and weather
reports. Good roads will place the
producer in a direct reciprocal relar
tion with the consumer and lessen the
value Of the weather reports to the
market manipulation.
The condition OF our wagon roads,
which compels the farmers, truck
gardeners, fruit and poultry raisers
and dairymen to market their prod
ucts under most favorable circum-
stances is to a great extent RESPONSE
BILE for present almost prohibitive
prices of food, and which is now hav-
ing the attention of the President, tho
Secretary of Agriculture, our National
Congress, Governors. Food Commis-
sioners and State Legislatures, and
the middle man and the owners OF
cold storage plants and warehouses
are the men who are going to be
Caught with the goods on them" for
their combinations are the ones that
best understand the road question and
| fix the price to be paid to the producer
when the roads are in condition for
him to deliver. and after the producer
has parted with his crop, and all is In
cold storage or the warehouse, then
they fix the price the consur er must
pay. Some call It "cornering," others
restraint OF trade" but It looks to me
like daylight robbery"
without national or state aid how
can we build the most good roads in
the shortest time with the most eco
nomical plan?
Under a county system, superin-
tended by competent county engi-
neer employed by the county commits
sioners. and aided by county and
townships.
When the improvement Is wholly
within one county. the cost and ex-
pense of said improvement. including
all damages and compensation award
ed, to be apportioned by the commits
sioners as follows: Not less than
thirty-five per cent (35). nor more
than fifty per cent 500 thereof, shall
be paid out of the proceeds OF any
levy or levies upon the grand dupli-
cate OF all the taxable property Of the
county; not less than % per cent
(259s) nor more than forty per cent
(40@s) thereof shall be paid out
of the proceeds OF any levy or
levies upon the grand duplt-
cate of the county levied upon the
taxable property of any township or
townships in which said improvement
may be situated and the balance,
which shall be not less than twenty
per cent (2O), nor more than thirty
Ave per cent (35) thereof, shall be as
sessed upon and collected from tho
owners OF real estate lying within one
mile from either side, end or terminus
OF the improvement, and assessed ac-
cording TO benefits derived from tho
Improvement as determined by the
commissioners.
Along with the county road law fol.
low the suggestion of the Ohio Good
Roads Federation, and amend the
state aid law so as to provide for the
designation, construction and per.
petual maintenance of our main mar
ket roads, and apportion the cost
thereof as follows;
Upon the completion Of the improve
ment the state highway commissioner
shall Immediately ascertain the costs
and expenses thereof and apportion
, them among the state, county, town.
ship or townships and abutting prop.
erty. He shall certify the total eN.
pense Of the improvement to the coun-
ty commissioners, trustees of the
township and abutting property own
, ers,,respectively, with a statement OF
the amounts to be borne by the state,
county, township and abutting prop
1 erty owners.
, Modern inventive genius is respon-
: sible for a new factor in the problem
OF transportation, which must be reck-
q oned with in legislation for public
: roads. The automobile industry has
I now reached sl10,000,000 per annum,
. and the makers and users or auto
. mobiles will soon find a place upon
r which they can actually press forward
with the farmer In hts efforts to OBJ
tain better roads.
}. For the full enjoyment of village,
8 city and rural life good roads are in.
e dispensable. Good roads will create
e a love for country life, decrease the
8 demand of the rush to the city, and
4 will make for the health, happiness,
: refinement, moral and intellectual i'm.
y provement of the people.
}, Nothing can contribute more to this
than the Improvement of our wagon
[ roads.
' know the loneliness and the DESC
r lation of the isolated farm, miles away
t from towns and villages. The farmer
) is unable-to get to the towns through
the long, dreary months of winter, be.
. cause he is made a prisoner by the
= bad condition of the reads Make the
i roads good and you make the farmer Q
I better and a more intelligent citizen