Southern good roads . coiiqileteil. We have built about • miles of i-ailroad at aeroductsha\i iiiiiltiplied, the use of the local highwa,\shave Liieely increased, and tlie Ioinifry has at lengthri ached that stage of de\ Ilopmeiit which calls fir alike dexelopiiient of our system of public highways. There has. therefoie. come into Ixisicnce a, purposeto lunC better mads, a purpose responsixe to a de-mand arising fr(nn nafioiial conditions, and this desirefor impio\-emeiit has led t::i agitalioii which has re-sulted III the loriiiatioii of associations lo promote fidsdesirable olijecl. I
Southern good roads . coiiqileteil. We have built about • miles of i-ailroad at aeroductsha\i iiiiiltiplied, the use of the local highwa,\shave Liieely increased, and tlie Ioinifry has at lengthri ached that stage of de\ Ilopmeiit which calls fir alike dexelopiiient of our system of public highways. There has. therefoie. come into Ixisicnce a, purposeto lunC better mads, a purpose responsixe to a de-mand arising fr(nn nafioiial conditions, and this desirefor impio\-emeiit has led t::i agitalioii which has re-sulted III the loriiiatioii of associations lo promote fidsdesirable olijecl. Ill perhaps ever,\ Stale tlieri is aState association to pi-iss forward this work, and thiTe\:i a national ,-issocia1 ion with the same object. The]iurpose of all these associations is to promote legisla-tion for the improvement of to lUganize lo-. Macadam Klad. Cumberland (Jap. Tennessee. United States Object Lesson Road 12 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS July, 1911 oal assoLiations, and to stinuilale tlie construction ofgood roads. Wherever, as the result of this movement, good roadshave been constructed the practical benefits have beenijumediate and far-reaehiug. In 25 selected counties of 12 fStates in which 40 percent of the roads had been imj^roved the increase inpopulation in the decade ending 1900 was on an av-age of 30,000 to the county. In 25 counties in thesame States where only 1 per cent of the roads hadbeen improved the population during that period, in-stead of showing- an increase, actually decreased 3,000tC the comity. Equally marked has been the effect ofroad improvement upon laud values. ^Yherever better highways have been introducedthese values have increased in a greater or less increase is seldom less than 20 per cent, and some-times as high as 100 per cent. The large increase inthe value of the abandoned f
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