Good roads . for theseason a total cost of $165 per mile, surely an item of exceed-ingly small propoitions compared with the results obtained. Of course, the old fashioned way of letting the roads takecare of themselves, after the customary spring pottering, willnot do in this case, so the services of two men are engaged toattend to the roads the entire season, an important bearingupon the final economical showing of the total cost of mainte-nance. In the adjoining district the roads are worked by assess-ment, or, rather, they are supposed to be ; at any rate a wheel-man, especially, will find
Good roads . for theseason a total cost of $165 per mile, surely an item of exceed-ingly small propoitions compared with the results obtained. Of course, the old fashioned way of letting the roads takecare of themselves, after the customary spring pottering, willnot do in this case, so the services of two men are engaged toattend to the roads the entire season, an important bearingupon the final economical showing of the total cost of mainte-nance. In the adjoining district the roads are worked by assess-ment, or, rather, they are supposed to be ; at any rate a wheel-man, especially, will find that some cause, evidently of anearthquakey nature, has upheaved the surface of the road intoa miniature range of Rocky-mountain roughness, over whichbump the wheels of the anti-good-road rusticus. I^et us stop and hold with him a little conversation on thesubject: Why doesnt he have better roads in his district ? Because better roads mean more expenditure. How many wagons does he own ? A LIMESTONE ROAD. 15. This Photograph Was Taken Within Five Hundred Feet of the One onOpposite Page, but the Road Here Shown is Worked on the AssessmentIPlan. It is a Part of the Same Road and Has the Same Traffic. Oh, three or four. How often are repairs necessary ? Once or twice a year. How many wagon shops does his town support? Two; employing on an average five or six men the yearround. What is their principal work ; building wagons ? No; wagons can be bought of western manufacturerscheaper than they can be made here. The wagon makerswork in this district is principally repairing. What makes repairing necessary ? Bad roads. How many harness makers does your town employ ? Three. Is their work mostly repairing, too ? Yes. Well, my friend, did it ever occur to you that if the com-munity in which you live can support, the year round, eightor ten men whose business seems to be patching up wagonsand harness, which are broken by something you can remedyby applying part of the money paid to them to
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