The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-03-19
One Good Read Begets Another.

a community builds the more IL wsnt'
to build is strikiBgly exempiifed in
Texas. During the past two or tire,
years the people OF that state have
voted not less than ten million dollars
in bonds for highway Improvements
and extension and Of this fund con
siderable portion is available for use
IN f9lG. Public interest. FAR from
Stacking with these great expcndi-
lures, has been stimulated by the re-
suits they have produced, 50 that the
current years bids fair 20 exceed any
that has gone before IN the amount OF
bonds issued for good roads. IN Janu-
! airy alone something like half mil
lion dollars was added TO the total
bond fund aud in many counties cicc-
tons will soon be held to pass upon
other proposed issues.
This record attests tremendous
popular awakening: Texas, though not
among the earliest states TO realize the
importance and value of adequate
highways, is a shining illustration Of
the truth that when the benefits Of
good roads are once felt that demand
for this increase will become more and
moro insistcnt. This is but natural,
for u good road has an educational
power that is well night soundless;
II stands IN daily Justification Of the
money spent upon It's construction; it
tis a profit and advertisement to the
county which possesses il that neigh.
boring communities cannot afford 10
be without the same advantage
Texas has four available sources for
is profit aud advertisement to The
the Good Roads Year Book for 1916.
each county leyie8 an ad valorem tax
for highway obstruction and mainte-
nanee The commissioners court Of
county may levy. At It's own discre ion,
a special tax not to exceed 10 cents on
the $l00; and through a special clcc.
ton. the voters may authorize me
commissioners TO levy an additional
tax Of 10 cents on tie 500. All able
bodied men not residing in an incorro-
rated town and paying Il street taz are
subject to five days road duty, which
can be commuted by payment Of So
II is estimated that from tlli8 source
the annual revenue is something like
three quarters Of million dollars. In
to these means of raising road
funds thore are The bond issues: and
the readiness with which taxpayers
are assuming such Obligations shows
HE statewide interest III The road i'm
cause.
The spirit manifested in Texas Is
throughout The south Ger
-ainly no quarter of the union has
greater cause 10 be concerned in the |
building of good highways, Tor they |
are Indispensable 70 the welfare and
progress of the farm
A recent writer ON the economies Of |
5ood roads estimates that in the cot |
on states of the south the average |
laul OF cotton from the farm TO the |
'hipping point Is eleven aud eight
onths miles Reckoning the average !
Dad AT seventeen hundred pounds a
tide more than three bales--he places |
he average cost OF hauling he says |
the cost OF marketing the 1871 crop |
" lG,25o,OOO bales was more than $lS.-
100. 600.
Where SO great sum Is involved, |
We cannot afford TO leave undone amy |
hing that will reduce the cost OF haul |
ng farm products, ana cotton. il
should be noted. is put among hun
lreds of other commodities that SO to |
SWELL the total bill, The average cost |
II hauling in the United States by |
wagon is - cents per ton per mile, |
n france, Germany and Englind, the
sVeregc cost is only about 10 cents |
per tone mile Wagon transportation |
'osts the people particularly the |
farmers of the United States. SS0o.. !
100000 u year. II is consovatWely !
calculated that good roads throughout !
he country would reduce that amount
~ half.
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