Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-01-26

| ieIt over. Already competed VI
! 1910 hiiles Oh IUaus; and l2,Uy
nIiios more ale hearing completion
1 90 Luat ABOUT z1,vUv hiliob nave Doe
Duiil Since fresIuent wilson xsne
the rirst road act SIX years ago. IN
years $io,uVv,uu0, with wnat I'll
states aQd 70 II VIII mean 1000
miles more OF good roads for In
united States.
The really smart thing that til
Government did In this iegisiatU
was to stipuiate that:
/. Each State participating mus
have competent highway commits
sion, which only hair the States ha
when the legislation was first passe
but which all have now.
3. Before Federal funds BIZ
come available, assurance must b
given by the State that the road
built will be properly and perma
nently maintained; and it has beel
provided that if any State fails t,
make necessary repairs, the Govern
ment will make them-and, unit
the bill Is settled, the State will g.
no more Federal funds.
There are other good provision
in the law. The funds are fair !.
between main-travele,
and connecting roads; an,
materials and styles OF COZ
struction are permitted, regulated
by the amount and kind of traffi,
each road Is expected to carry.
That is Golfers idea of construc-
tive national legislation. Take a
couple of examples of how it is work
ng out in plain, everyday communi-
les. az
For example. in Lauderdale Coun-
y, Mississippi, records of hauling
,osts were kept before and after I'M
The average load on the
I'D roads for a two-horse team was
lbout 1850 pounds, and on the new
Dads about $3.50 pounds. The old
hauling cost was figured at 81 cents
'er ton-mile while the cost on the
lew road was only 20 cents.
The saving of II cents per ton
nile amounts annually in that one
ounty to $4,000. That saving, If
ppiied to principal and interest on
he bond issue from which the roads
,ere built, would In seventeen years
ay the entire original new road
ost
Better roads, also, increase the
alue of farm and suburban prop |
rty. In the same Mississippi coun-
: increases of value have leaped
'om so to 500 per cent with the |
'ming of good roads. One tract
forty acres, four miles from the
inty seat, est $1,000 before the
bod roads came in and sold next
Ear for $4,000, after the roads were
tilt. The average valuation of
operty along these roads scared
ON $23.89 an acre to s55.1S, or
increase of 131 per cent.
These are random examples. They
Q being matched, even beaten,
the country wherever
cd roads are being built. II
Good roads increase the trading
ga of merchants by making 1t pos
lie for more customers to get to
EN- from greater distances, l
Good roads widen the city's cir I
to include the neighboring farms, c
Eating better understanding Of T
Itual problems, which is the first t
p toward real solution of those n
,blems.
Good RAIDS relieve the railrads of +
nprofitable short-haul traffic by T
king it possible to establish pro- r
lble trucking routes. C
Take just one mans viewpoint n
these lines written b
te recently by Charles P. Hunt n
ton of Shore Acres Farm, Gray's h
re, Illinois: t
loads are such importance thato a.
y may be compared to our lives, al
Y are both good and bad, they OF
smooth, even, level, wide, and It
, they are hilly, narrow, and tn
ding, dangerous, shadowy and ri
hit, and they show the effects of tn
Ironment and care, even rs we. CO
hey are the very means of our pr
for over them passes the food ar
ch must keep the people of the HI
IS alive. HI
'ithout roads cities could not of
i've, and country folk would be re-
tout many Of the present necess- an
, comforts, and luxuries Of life, de
III they are now able to enjoy. 80
? are the connecting ltaa ID ex