Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-15
LESSONS IN ROAD BUILDING
Exhibit to Include Study in Farm
Transportation.
MINNESOTA EXPERT TO LECTURE
George W. Coolcs, state Ensineer,
VIII Tell visitors How 60 I'm
prove Highways and save
Money.

How millions now lost in expensive
transportation Of products over bad coun-
try roads can be saved. will be The object
Of the good roads exhibit az the land show.
Conservative estimates made by engineers
of authority place the present average cost
of hauling over country roads by team at
above . cents a ton q mile. This cost can
be reduced to not more than 10 cents, ac.
oording to John ~. Mullen assistant cn-
g.rcer TO The state Highway commission
Of Minnesota. AR Mullen will have charge
Of the exhibit 10 he installed at the land
show. Ila will present statistics tn show
how through road Improvement the cost
OF transportation has been reduced.
The country transportation problem as
sumes especial significance TO the sections
represented at the land show. In the great
development projects of the west distances
are great. Hauls are necessarily Ions and
economy demands that they be made at
the least possible cost. Road Improvement,
while in itself representing perhaps the
greatest step toward the attainment Of
/ that economy in transportation. will open
/ up the possibility for yet further reduc-
| ton in the cost Of country hauls 10y the
| use of the motor tractor. Development of
| the commercial vehicle to meet the needs
OF the farmer is already far ahead Of the
! highway development which is necessary
| to their successful adoption as a general
means of transportation. The gasoline
motor tractor is near at hand but it will
be Of little use until there are roads to run
! IL on roads of the knd that will make
the use of the tractor a true economy ovei
the use Of the draft animal
y" show Road History.
The land shows roads exhibit Will sci
forth on reduced scale all Of the details OF
road construction from the bride path Of
the wilderness, the Indian trail that Fran
els Parkman followed in his journey
through the northwest, to the most mod
ern macadamized highway over which
Farmer John buzzes to town in his forty
horsepower touring car.
Adding to the force of the lesson laugh
by the exhibit, will be lectures to be giver
by George w. Cooley, Minnesota state en-
gineer. Mr. Cooley will tell how roads arr
being made in the agricultural sections
of this country and Europe and how tn
farmer by a small investment can maxi
great annual savings through the better
ment of the highways leading to his gran
aries.
! 1 ne significance OF ROAD Improvement u
the prosperity of the agricultural west i
given recognition at the Land show by
good roads day" when Mr.. Cooley will
deliver his principal address.
Railroads have long realized the i'm
portance Of reducing the cost of the hau
over country roads Campaigns for roa,
betterment have been instituted by man!
of the great systems of the nation. Tn
Ipresence Of Mr.. Cooley and the use of tn
Minnesota road exhibit at the Land SHOW
has been gained in large measure through
{ the efforts and Influence of l.. w. Hill
president of the Great Northern raIlwa,
and head of the state highway commission
of Minnesota. The display which the Min
nesota engineers are installing is larger
but much similar in many aspects thai
that shown at the conservation congress Il
St Paul and at the Minnesota State fair
THE road problem has its significance t
everyone" said Mr. Mullen yesterday
THE cost to the farmer in hauling hi
products TO the market becomes a part o
the cost of that product and Mr.. Ultimat
Consumer foots the hauling bill along witt
the rest
1T is an absolute fact that the bad road
of the country are new responsible for