The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-04-07
WHY GOOD ROADS
SHOULD Be BUILT
SECRETARY OF OHIO COUNTY
sGOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION
SETS FORTH REASONS.
AID TO INTELLIGENCE
o. f. Taylor Ably Discusses Problem
UppermOst in Minds of Ohio
County People.

Good roads are SO important to
the financial, social and educational
life of community that no enumera-
ton of their advantages is likely to
J include all the benefits they afford,
but a brief consideration of some OF
the chief advantages of good roads
will be of greatest value in determin-
ing the amount of money that may
be justiiably expended in the road
improvement and in determining
what clisses shall in equity and farm
ers to all bear the expense. The
principal advantages of good roads.
that is of hard surface roads are as
follows:
/. Good roads decrease the cost of
transportation. at certain seasons of
the year considerably, but at others
only little.
2, Good roads permit the cultiva-
ton of crops not otherwise market
able. resulting in extending the area
that can be probably devoted to the
production of fruits and vegetables.
and is most felt in the vicinity of
towns and cities.
3, Good roads give a wider choice
of the time for the marketing of
crops, allowing the produce to be
hauled to market when the work of
production Is at its minimum.
a. Good roads permit marketing
to be done when the price is right.
Crops can be held on the farm and
hauled into town when the highest
and best market can be obtained
otherwise the crops must be hauled
when the roads are in condition and
sold for what they will bring or stor-
age charges paid in town while wait
ing for the price to get right.
5. Good roads give wider choice
il the market place allowing the
farmer to go to the town which will
pay him most and not to the nearest
town necessarily.
6, Good roads tend to equalize the
produce market between the seasons,
an advantage of relative Importance
with our cold storage and railroad
facilities.
Z, Good roads tend to equalize rail-
road traffic between the seasons.
impossible wagon roads over any
extensive area will materially hamp-
er the shipping of agricultural pro-
duce and the receipt of goods from
the manufacturing sections
s. Good roads tend to equalize
mercantile business throughout the
year allowing the merchant to do
business more economically since
business is distributed more thor
oughly throughout the year. This
works a saving to the consumer as
well by allowing the merchant to fig
ure less profit on his sales due to a
partial doing away with the dull sea-
sons.
8, Good roads permit more easy
Intercourse between people in the
country. and between the city and
the country like ours.
10, Good roads mean better schools
and easier ways to get to them. A
most important matter to the coming
generations, for whose existence and
training the present generation is re-
sponsible.
IL, Good roads facilitate r. +. ID.
The more good roads we have the
more r. +. ID. routes we will have
and the easier it will be made for the
country people to get their mail and
to market their produce by parcel
post or to order their groceries de-
livered by Uncle Sam.
~. Good roads invite tourist travel
and bring the men with the money
into contact with the country that
needs the money for its develope-
ment.
Is, Good roads increase the price
of farming lands in the sections they
serve and in the general locality as
well. A most forceful argument for
good roads.
The thirteen reasons for good
roads above given are nearly equally
divided between the financial and
the social side OF the proposition. The
one 10 a. important as the other.