Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1914-02-25

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have "a system of roads that will en-
courage development. 1t is not at all
encouraging for the farmer who is six
or seven miles from town TO work all
able to deliver them to market when the
price is at a maximum which is very
often the case. AS an example, a man,
in the fall of 1912, with an orchard
eight miles from WEIGH offered to give
IA wagon load of apples to Colonel j j.
Swope, editor of the Mcdowell Re-
corder, if he would take them from the
orchard Owing to the roads, he could
not get them but continued to buy
apples in WEIGH at $l.O0 per bushel,
while these apples rotted in the or
chard.
l can cite you TO another example
which happened in my home county of
Writ during my vacation in 1912.
was on the farm of my uncle which is
six or seven miles from Elizabeth. At
this place potatoes were selling at $1.00
per bushel. He took me to the cellar
and showed me several barrels of po-
tatoes, which We're rottening. L asked
him why he didn't take them to Eliza
beth and sell them. He replied, THAT
is impossible over these roads; / can
hardly get to town and back myself. :"
In nearly all of our camps, towns
and cities we are using western potatoes
and in others, potatoes shipped from
Ireland while hundreds of bushels are
rottening on farms just because the
ton that the farmer cannot deliver
them to the consumer. Many of the
boys leave the farm for no other reason
than that of bad roads A we'll known
farmer of this state lives twelve miles
from town. He had six boys that all
left home to work. The father got an
automobile, after which he went to the
county court and got permission to fix
the twelve miles of road. This he did
The boys came home and learned to
run the automobile. Now they go when
they please and live at home continu-
ally. Here is "A solution of the keeping
the boy ON the farm.
Listen to this remarkable fact if you
will; We have G,34O, 357 farms in the
Unitod States, aud since 1900 the gov
eminent has spent on rivers and har-
bors that which would equal S6O.27 per
farm and for the army Sl7l.OS and the
navy SlGS55.
The money spent on the Big Sandy
river from 1900 to 1913 is 81 ,4O5, $40. %
or an equivalent of 1, 1925 per mile for
every one of the 800 miles of road in
your county or S6O1 % for every farm
i'll Wayne county. You have about
4,54S families which equal 500. 10 for
every family in Wayne county Think
about this and talk to your Congress-
man.
Since 1900 the government has spent
$2Q,G76, 6962S on the Ohio, Little and
Big Kanawha, Elk, Gauly, Guyandotte,
Big Sandy and Monongahela rivers.
The agricultural products shipped over
these rivers Were so small that no es-
Inmates are available but one would be
safe in saying that taking into consid-
GRAFTON the amount of money appro-
priated for rivers and harbOrS in West
Virginia if this amount had been ex-
pended upon the highways it would
have been thousand fold more valu-
able to our people Now in this state
we have 96,685 farms, or the money
spent on these rivers equals 1914 SO PEI
farm or $S3.6S per family. We have
over 10000 miles of road i'm this state.
thus making Il cost of 1902 % per mile
of road spent by the federal government
for period of twelve years.
In 1912 the state raised 1861 ,9l5 for
district road purposes, or 50 Of average
per farm; "a per cent of the amount
raised was upon real estate; 16 per cent
personal property and 30 per cent ON
public corporations
The assessed value in this county shows
real estate $4,054, G25 personal property
81 1896 GO; public service corporations
-, 1923 ,Gl9.OO, or total of S14, 674, 1854 90.
You will raise this year for bridges
l4,6143O, permanent roads 1881, Is
and for general roads including capita
ton SIG, 100 3G. On July LIST, 1913, you
had left over and above outstanding
orders 81, $3.50, thus making $2G, 9iO.2l
for the year 1914 (This amount in
cludcs -heriffs, commissions, and de
linqucnt, which would reduce it some
that is to say, you have s33.G7 per mile
of road to put on your road for the year
/ 1914
There are 24O, 1853 acres Of farm land
in Wayne county and 9O,127 acres
other than farm land, and since - per
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