Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1917-06-24
APPROVED ROADS
As THEY EFFECT
NATION ANALYZED
~ WIGHT COT NILES
ARE TAKEN - Examples
tOH COT NTIN
GOVERNMENT MAKES STUDY
Farm Lands Increase iu Value, Gull
tural Mcthuds Improve and
Social life l. Much
Benefited

Botvty. ta. wears oi 1910 and
1913 tire office of Public Roads az
IWasaulfur. ID. G.. made series OF
exhaustive Studio, n eight selected
ounties u various sections of the
iutol States to determine what was
luo actual effect OF improved nigh
ways They carefully analylcd the
conditions iu ga % of these counties
before there were any road improve
uou, us we'll as after the counties
mad voted bond and the improved
roads had been constructed Fou-
loi these counties were IN Virginia
lr, in Now YORK.. one m Alabama,
one iu Mississippi and one 100 Flor
ida.
Following 1919 these counties had
voted houGs for improved roads
amounting AN the way from -.., per
cent of their assessed valuation OF
1o.ol PEE cent The aycrae" price OBJ
tanned for farm land. the amount OF
traffic on the roads ra' wcighl ot the
I load hauled the school attendance.
land other things were investigated
before any of the roads we're improy-
ed and the sam" investigation was
carried ON after their Improvement
several Times the Cost
"a study iu the increase oi yalua-
Itiou OF ,.m lands 10 these eight coun-
ties reveals the rather utcras ting
! tact that follOWlur the Improvement
|of the uaiu road, the Increase m the
selling price of tillablc farm lands
served by the road has amounted 90
from two 20 three times the total
cost Of improvements. These 90.
creased aiuatioas raue, hom 90 Ca
|Igl pc. cent and are due entirely to
/ tb. good road Improvement.
CONSIDERING tar eight counties in
I'm r aggregate the gross annual saving
Tin hauling cost due to their good road
system affords the rather impressive
total ol 1927 600" TO q traffic ri
|atSg.C52 ton miles THE atorar'
gross ton per mil" for the oirht coun
Ties is HAS, this being Indicated bN
Ian AVERAGE utr of &c.,, before the
roads were improved as compared
49,, alto the roads wor" improved
\ These investigations bar ont inc
Statements which h.N. go ircuuUntl.
been made chat good road improve
.ments will NOR, than Irv On. them
selves Zoo raulu. costs alone The
increased value tn the farm land rep
lrts,nts ir the beet way possible tt'
. actual money s1yin. n 900 rns.o.t
90 tao farmer ~ good roada
I'inc icr the school,
a comparison of the otfoe'. OF th'
! road improvements upon the country
school affords probably O. NOR" com
r .ploic vindicatiou of the OUTLAY than
. oven the untrrill features Vhic.
, lla,o horn presented Compiling ihI
/ results obtained 200 alI of tl, Digh
, counties it apparrs that before th
/ roads we're improved the agorag,
] school attendance was .lNiN-sN pa
, lri' OF each 100 enrolled with 90 40
To- FOR the -old n.rc improved. 4 con
sidrWtiou OF th. showing must ro
, veal the fact that good roads hay
Z been materially responsible for th
/, |ndUratiOu OF ton children our OF cy
: |orf 100 a. mo struggle fpr cN.ieuc
b. becomes .r'urr Boz tho years that ag
Z Iyn' bcior. u.s. tho educational train
/. Hing which tho child .cu receive Boo NJ
Q country school UI,l make itself 100
IWDrr and moro iu th' material au
a lMUr1I success OF Ih' war 1l' woman
Nu uu'y have t.p road contribute