Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-26
DEATH TAX VS.. BONDS.

Nhzn MI. Downing started from
Fort Dodge 10 Des MONIES last week ne
saw good dirt road before him. ana
with light hearts he and his wife set
out in their auto. a few miles out Of
Des Mo:nes rain began TO fall. In q
few moments a clay hill waS as slip
perry IS tho it had been creased. The
car skidded. turned over, the wife was
killed and Downing was injured for
life. That IS the price We are paying
for dirt roads in Iowa when one-third
of our people are now using automo-
biIes on the highways ana more viii
be using them next year.
In marked contrast with our death
tax stands the bond issue which IS
building hard surfaced roads in almost
every other state in the union. Note
the news Of a recent road bulletin.
Etowah county. Alabama, has sold
100000 OF bonds ard expec.s TO build
$50 miles Of modern graveled road.
Road district No. near Pine Bluff,
Ark, has sold It's issue OF 500 900 of
bonds with which TO build eighteen
miles OF macadam road to tie county
line
y special road district. .aree miles
wide ard twenty-five miles long, has
been formed in Mississippi county,
Arkansas, 10 build a hard surfaced
road across the county,
Kings county. California, has dis
posed Of its s672,500 in road bonds al
a premium OF ss4s2 and will loan the
money 70 local banks at per cent in
tereIL unit! needed to pay for paving.
Brevard county. Florida, has voted
> 10 l for $4,000 in road bonds.
Palm Beach countys $500. 1000 in road
bonds completes the brick road system
from Jacksonville to Miami which now
gives brick or gravel road over three
hundred fifty miles long.
Pinenas county. Florida, will issue
warrants up TO 100000 with which to
build hard surfaced roads on the new
Dixie route.
IN Indiana, east of Goshen, $4,000
Of ROAD bond money viii De spent for
paving the Lincoln Highway with
brick.
Eleven main roads radiating out Of
Terra Haute, Ind, are TO De paved TO
the township line with concrete from
the proceeds Of a township bond issue
Of s332,147.
Davies county, Kentucky, has voted
100000 by a large majority for com
plete hard road system.
Claiborne county, Kentucky, has sold
$4,000 Of road bonds for stone roads.
Fayette county, Kentucky, will re-
surface the old Richmond pike with
asphaitic concrete on the old macadarn
In Louisiana a huge road building
project is under way whereby 81, 500,
900 of state money will be expended in
| building seventeen highways in five
| western counties.
Berrien county. Michigan. will ex-
pend $4,000 on sixty miles of stone
roads this summer.
Sniawsssee county, Michigan, viii
complete her system of 100 miles OF
hard surfaced roads this year.
Attic Allegheny county, Pennsyl-
of asphalt roads in the vicinity OIL
spend $500. 900 this summer on eighteen
miles more.
In Texas, Bexar county has built
%itukH ne past year 4IOill bCIlU money
143 miles of new gravel road, has re-
surfaced eighty-six miles and has sur
faced twenty miles with tar
Mercer county, West Virginia, has
voted to build 100 miles Of stone roads
with ss50,000 of bond money.
These are merely incidents of recent
date in the nation wide struggle to ge,
out Of the mud. The same bulletin
contains another list of bond election
petitions and road district formations
which are getting ready to 90 some