The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-05-30

roads about fifty per cent. He
states that farm lands along the
roads leading out from Durham sold
for $40 to s25 per acre and that
since the roads have been improved
they bring from 500 to 800 per
acre. He states that farm lands
along improved roads are worth
three times as much as those on bad
roads and that the people have
moved of of the bad roads and on
to the good roads.
To ship wheat from New York to
Liverpool, s.1OO miles. Ise5-6, costs
as cents per bushei, or 10 cents
Hess than It costs the farmer to haul
liz "a mics from the farm to the
railroad station.
The Smith County News reminds
its readers that when an effort was
made to issue road bonds in Smith
county it failed. The people were
told that the 100000 road bonds
LOT the neighboring county of Put
nam we're a burden to the people.
Smith county allowed itself to be
dissuaded from Issuing bonds, but
Putnam, kept right on. The CEN
fsus showed a loss of $50 people In
Smith county and gain g 1000 in
Putnam.
San Joaquin county voted on
March 16. 1909. bond issue of ST.
100000 The Highway Commission
after investigating estimated tina,
twenty per cent OF the roads carried
NINETY per cent of the traffic. The
Ebond issue distributed the cost over
forty years. Two-fifths of the in
debtedness is to be borne by the
cities OF Stockton and Lodi, one
tenth by the railroads, onehalf by
the farms, city, suburbs and ham.
lets. The average obligation on
leach acre OF productive farm land
lis in the neighborhood OF 81 10
with forty years to pay it. The
commission estimated that the in
Ecrease in the average producing
value OF each acre would be at least
50. The tax rate for; the fret year
was less than 5 .GS5 on each $1O0.
the maximum to be reached about
the fifth year, when 1t would be less
than thirty cents on the 500.
There we're in 1904, Az, LABS. 4s7
acres of unimproved lands IN the
United States. A great deal ofsfarm
land under cultivation is imperfectly
cultivated. ALI of this is due, in z
measure, to inability of the farmer
to market his products by reason OF
Ibad roads. The result is that in
sections of agricultural country
which should provide enormous out
going freight for the railroads in
the shape of agricultural products,
the incoming freight OF such agri-
cultural products greatly exceeds
the outgoing. At Fredericksburg,
Va, tho principal railroad station
in an agricultural country, the in
coming shipments OF farm products
Iby railroads in 1909 were 8. O42 900
pounds, while the outgoing ship
Imetts were only 4,4S4,O00 pounds.
I'M that year there was scarcely
tmi!sTof good road in the country
Dhebe Is being bdiit now gravel
E.roads with a 500, 900 bond issue,
land itwill be interesting to note the
effect onttraffic in farm products. At
Bristol, Va. the incoming shipments
were ST6,151 tons, while the outgo-
ling shipments were only "a, s17
tons At Pennington Gap, Lee county,
EVa,s the Incoming shipments OF farm
produce over the L. and N. R. r..
during 1910 were 1.226,755 pounds,
while the outgoing shipments were
epty $50 ,097 pounds, and at Norton.
Wise county, Va, the incoming
Ishipmnts for 1910 were s,s75 $50
pounds; while the outgoing ship
meats were only 1,3SST67 pounds
/ All those sections were capable OF
producing far greater amount of
agricultural products than they
could consume. Recently Lee and
Wise counties have issued bonds for
road improvement, the former to the
extent Of 1884 900. and the latter to
the extent of 100000 1t will be in
Itsressing to note the effect on freight
trafic in those counties.
In the report Of the West Virginia
Experiment Station for the years Of
ls09-1O, it is shown that from Sep
TENDER 80, 1907, to October /, 1908.
there were shipped into West vlr-
Iginia from outside states a total o.
$sH,4Ts,72S worth of produce and
stock feed, and from September 80,
] 1908, to October /, 1909. S36, $685.
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