The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-04-06

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other car or extend his line t.
routes. T.
Jitney Bus Coming.
II this thing proves profitable on
the good roads of one section of the
State it is certain it will be introduce
ed in other sections, and that the
Jitney bus will become as common in
the rural regions as the trolley cars
are now in the cities. and the steam
cars are on the railroads. However,
this is a digreSSiOn merely to show
that there are far more motives at
work for good roads than is COM
monty suspected. The government
wants roads on which t can move its
mails and for all purposes which may
confront the government at any time,
| and the location Of the Capital high
| way by way OF Smithfield, Fayette~
Vile and Southern Pines to PinehurSt
was not a temporary location to be
| given up on a day when shorter
route could be located by Merry Oaks
and Sanford to Pinehurst. It de-
| velOps that the government wants all
the parallel lines Of Capital highway
it can create, and road once taken
under the control Of the government
engineers seems to be taken there TO
stay unless the counties and towns
decide otherwise. Mr. Spoon assures
the people of the Fayetteville and
RaefOrd route that the Capital high
way built through their section is a
government highway for keeps, and
that the ambition of the government
is not to let go OF any line once Sc
cured, but to encourage all the
branches and cross lines and parallel
lines that can be built. It seems your
Uncle Sam wants to make it easy to
get to the homes Of all Of his numer'
? Gus family any day he may happen
down in this country, and the roao
scheme is not merely a single line
, to let folks go from Washington tt
Florida, but to permit travel on every
, road in every township in every
, State Of the whole big country.
Il So Mr.. Spoon is now lodging into
Chatham county at the present time
endeavoring to lay out the plans fol
, two branches Of the Capital highway
through the county, and encouraging
: the people of the county to take III
+ the important work Of putting thei
county prominently on the map. H
is also busy in trying to outline q roat
r system that will open one or tW,
= direct routes through Chatham t.
5 Charlotte, connecting Raleigh an'
T Durham with the western town b,
way Of Chatham, and giving thi
r county access to the whole State an
$ nation by routes going out in al
f courses Of the compass.
q CROWN: Part Of Automobile.
y The part the automobile is to pla
t on the good roads of this state is in
a fnitely greater than we dream Of yet
4 1t is only half a dozen years ago tha
5. all Of us who live on farms were look
n ing on the automobile as an aggresso
5 to be opposed on the country roads
II We were afraid of them, and we lis
Il tened with wonder to the nenws tha
- ty that in South Carolina the farm
u ers were coming to town in autOmO
~ bileS | will confess like a man tha
"a when the good road was first project
- ed out my way ] told my family an
> neighbOrs that it was a doubtful ben
:. eft, for we would be overrun Wit
~ automobiles and our horses would b
:. chased from the roads. The horse
= were scared for a few weeks, but no
?, they pay no more attention to an at
l. tomObile than to a WheelbarroW, an
Il I will confess some more and say the
e a lot of us Hillbillies go to town no
10 in our gas buggies, just the same G
l. rich folks, for we have found out ths
of the automobile is vehicle for tn
p farm particularly, and that even
a second hand model Of ten years ag
at will do a lot of work and save a lot
II time around the place So We of tf
Y. farms go TO town now in our hon
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