Southern good roads . iiu to haul the ]nodnets ofyour farm and \oui- fai-t uics to the eri-it arteries ofthe means of trans]iortatio]i to your markets? Gentlemen, much, infm-mation is at your commandregardingtile cost ..; transportation of pi-oducts ol t!iesoil and tlie factory to the railroads which in turntransport your producis to the iiiarKels, and I urncupon you the iin])ortain-c <if ,-i com])relieiisi\e study otthis impiutant --to you most important—i|iiestioii. I )oyou avail yourselves of the opp irl unities that the fe(l-eral tjovernment and the state uovernments open upto yoii, as
Southern good roads . iiu to haul the ]nodnets ofyour farm and \oui- fai-t uics to the eri-it arteries ofthe means of trans]iortatio]i to your markets? Gentlemen, much, infm-mation is at your commandregardingtile cost ..; transportation of pi-oducts ol t!iesoil and tlie factory to the railroads which in turntransport your producis to the iiiarKels, and I urncupon you the iin])ortain-c <if ,-i com])relieiisi\e study otthis impiutant --to you most important—i|iiestioii. I )oyou avail yourselves of the opp irl unities that the fe(l-eral tjovernment and the state uovernments open upto yoii, as to what the cost of transportation representsin dollars and cents? Do you know that it is suscep-tible of proof and can be easily deiii mslrateil to yoursatisfaction that more than forty inillions of dollars is wasted on the public roads of the Tniteil States year-Address delivered before the Southern Appalachian Good Rosds Association atRoanoke, Virginia, October 4-5, 191. HON. L, K .JOHNSON President Norfolk & Western Railway Company, One of the Souths Ablest Good Roads Advocates. SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS November, 1911 ly tliroiigh ig-iiorance, incompetence, and worse thanall—inditterence? You gentlemen who are here as-sembled representing- the Southern Appalachian GoodReads Association, are paying your full proportion ofthis waste, due not to ignorance, not to incompetence,but almost wholly to indifference We are informedthat the annual loss due to incorrect and inadequatemethods in the construction, maintenance and admin-istration of pul)lic roads can safely be set down asforty millions of d(dlars thrown away—yes, worsethan thrown away. If this whole forty millions of dol-lars was dumped in one bunch with a weight thatwould carry it to the bottiDm of the Atlantic Ocean, itwould be better than to have this waste constantly ap-pearing before the people of this country and theknowledge that their money has been expended andthat they have received li
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