The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-01

PRESS URGING IMPORTANCE OF
ROAD IMPROVEMENT TO KEEP
PACE WITH THAT IN PROGRESS
IN THIS STATE.

PACE WITH THAT IN PROGRESS
IN THIS STATE.
c. F. Reifsnider, writing the Ga
zette-News from Port Orange for re-
newal of subscription, enclosed clip
ping from the Los Angeles Examiner
which is appended. OF this article,
Mr.. Reifsnider said: 1T listens good
for Florida and shows that California
has her eyes on the 'F1owery State.
all the time" The clipping follows:
Palm lined lanes of Florida. recently
converted from narrow paths into
broad state and county highways,
threatens the supremacy of Southern
California as a touring paradise de
luxe.
Officials of the Automobile club of
Southern California. quoting from
facts recently published throughout
the East. yesterday pointed out that
Florida is now up on her toes ana
has made good roads slogan which
has swept the state from enc end to
another.
There have been stretches of good
roads, but separated by links which
were anything but joy to motorists.
says one Eastern publication. refer
ring to Florida Now this is rapidly
changing. County after county has
voted road bo1ds by the million dol
lars. and the state is being crossed
in all directions by paved highways
on which mOtorist can do his 200
| miles a day or more in comfort.
The states leading north and north
| west are also providing state roads
which rival those in the north. and the
vast procession of cars which passed
into Florida the past winter carried
license signs of probably every state
in the union.
| Already over $12 900 900 Tin a re
stricted area) has been appropriated.
No other state affords so many miles
Of motor highway bordering ocean,
gulf. rivers and lakes.
| Automobile club officials state that
the seriousness of the necessity of
passing the state highway bonds in
California cannot be overestimated.
| Before the roads in one county of
/ Virginia had been improved, the larg
est amount Of farm and forest prod
ucts shipped out of that county in any
one year was $4,000 tons. In 1909 the
amount of dairy products shipped
| was $4,000 pounds. During that year
forty miles of road were improved
at an expense of 100000.
In 1911, two years after the i'm
provemen., 1000 tons of farm and
forest products and 273.000 pounds of
dairy products were shipped. The in
crease was 40 and 140 per cent. re-
spectively.
The increase in wheat shipments
| was 50 per cent. in tobacco 81 per
cent and other products shipments in
creased As per cent over the best
records made before the roads were
| imprived.
1T was found by the Virginia High
| way commission that farmers were
saved $41 800 in marketing $4,000 tons
OF products.
In California. through the agricul-
tural districts, the value of good roads
annually to ranchers and dairyists has
been estimated by experts at many
millions of dollars But over and
above this. the state profits so enor
nously by the coming of thousands OF
visiting motorists every year that the
figures seem almost unbelievable.
Representatives of the Automobile
club and those in charge of the tour
ing information bureaus, estimate the
annual expenditures of motoring visit
ors in California at approximately
S37 600 000'