The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-05-02
STATE ROAD ENGINEER
SPEAKS TO ROAD MEN

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value Is $500 per acre. There Il
only one other county in the state
that has greater land value than
Jefferson, and that is Ohio county.
4 which practically means the city 81
Wheeling. Gentlemen, good roads
4 did 1t, and Mr. Farmer, there rs the
roads.
The Road Is the Trouble. n
This IS not the only reason; me
thinks can hear some OF you
/ say, i cannot gee selp upon the
farm, or the father says. 4 cannot
keep the boys upon the farm. and
true expect you are speaking but
wish to call your attention to the
fact again that the road IL your
trouole. A boy in his teens with the
vision OF manhood ana of greater
Things before him. a disposition to
rove and go beyond the little buund-
airy line of the farm, linked with the
attraction of the Turing lights OF the
CITY,, sees inducements that must be
onset, and conditions that must he
met. The social conditions of tsie
farm life back in the country on
roads over which the boy cannot
travel will not hold him against
these. But If you viii put good
road between the farm and town. let
the boy have the horse AMI buggy.
or better still, get an automobile,
you VIII have this problem solved
Here am not speaking from
theory, because know a man, in
this state who has number Of sons
and whose home Is on the. waters
that flow by here today, who met the
condition about whom am sneak
ing. HE lives some miles from town.
al of his boys had left him. he plirs
chased an automobile, than went be-
fore the county court and asked per-
mission to put the road between his
home and town in shape. to get over
IL With mis- machine, The permission
was granted. In few days one Of
the boys came home on q visit, the
automobile was discovered. and Inns
mediately he set about to learn to
operate 1t. In d few more days the
other boy came home AMI PROPOSE
tion was made to the father that
they would help Ak the road. 81
The result was that the road was
liked and the boys nave since re-
NAMED at home. Not only have tine
boys remained on the farm, but the
man is able to get all tire farm relp
ne wants. On Saturday the farm
help and the boys drive to town in
the machine, spend few pleasant
hours and returns home. They have
al the benefits o. outdoor country
life with the pleasures and cnnFen-
4 ienees- OF. the cityebg reason of the
roads. Here. Mr.. Farmer, - a Eblii-
ton OF that problem and ais one OF
old has said, Go thou and do like
wise.
The School Boy Answers.
!! Why good roads? Yonder stands
the school boys. Let us answer the
quetsion from his angle. He needs
all the advantages of education thar
he can get to prepare MIN for the
battles of life and the story OF the
two brothers who lived two miles
from town in one of our western
states, each of whom had two sons,
one lived on the solid macadam road,
the other lived on the kind oferoads
We have in many places in this state.
I The children of the one who lived
upon the good road attended. school
regularly-one of them today Is the
head of Nle OF the leading colleges
OF the country; the other SUCCESS
ful business man. The children or
( the other brother living on the mud
road could only attend school part
4 OF the year and thus soon fell be-
/ hind. They never completed
/ course, but left the, farm, drifteu
from pillow 10 post and today are tli-
known. This illustrates a case or
children OF equal parentage whose
lives were affected by the road upon
which they lived.
Then, my fellow citizens, can we
stand idly by and see such conditions
wrought into the lives o fthe bright
and cheerful boys and girls that sur
round our hearths and gladden. our
homes. To produce these conditions
when we are capable of doing other
wise, my friends, is not far snort or
crime. For the sake of the bright,
innocent boys and girls who now
/ look into our faces and In. their
cnild-lfke simplicity plead for help
and guidance, let us stand TO avoid
conditions such as the example just
cited, by making better roads.
Costly Hauling.
Better Road, Why? / cae yons
der a teamster and he says, give us
better roads But why? Listen for
a moment. In Germany toy trans
port freight over their roads at eight
cents per ton; France and England
at ten cents. 1t is estimated that;the
average cost in this country Is about
20 cents, but have noticed some
hauling IN the oil iI1tricts Of this
state where it has been costing s. 80
per ton per mile to transport the
freight Thus, the efficiency OF
team in Germany is almost seyenteen
times as much as in this state, or, IN
other words, one team on the Ger
man road will haul as much as sew
enteen teams on the roads abnye
mentioned. In France and England
thirteen and one-half times as lIuy;if,
or in other words two teams on their
roads will handle as mucn ais twenty
seven teams on ours.
But dropping down to an aver
age tonnage price of twenty-eight
cents per mile for this state and flg-
uring four-flfths OF q ton per mile.