Southern good roads . trans-portation to the phice of sale or trans-shipment. Forinstance, he says, it costs an average of almost twocents more to haul a bushel of wheat from the larm tothe station, nine miles away, than it does to ship a bush-el of wheat from New York to Liverp lol, 3100 milesaway. This c^\cessive tiansportation cost mitst bemade up liy the farmer in charg-nig- nnue for his wheat,liy the miller in charging more for tlie flour, by theliaker in charging more for the bread, and, ttnally. ofcourse, by the ultimate consumer in paying more forhis bread. iVs the farmer and the mille
Southern good roads . trans-portation to the phice of sale or trans-shipment. Forinstance, he says, it costs an average of almost twocents more to haul a bushel of wheat from the larm tothe station, nine miles away, than it does to ship a bush-el of wheat from New York to Liverp lol, 3100 milesaway. This c^\cessive tiansportation cost mitst bemade up liy the farmer in charg-nig- nnue for his wheat,liy the miller in charging more for tlie flour, by theliaker in charging more for the bread, and, ttnally. ofcourse, by the ultimate consumer in paying more forhis bread. iVs the farmer and the miller a)-e also con-sumers, the excessive cost of i-oad transportation reallylevies a tax upon all. It has been always a sm-t ot gospel for \is to \annt(un superi )rity o\(r other natioris. particularly 111 eco-nomic aiul )ndustri;d matters; but we must confess, inthis matter of road making, which, as we can see, real-ly underlies our entire industrial fabric, the effetenations of Europe hnvr us. in the language of a re-. Savannah Auto Course. Turn at South End, Near with Indian Liquid Asphalt. This Course is cently submerged political prophet. Beat to a fraz-zle. I have ridden over many miles of the roads ofFrance and England, and this is a fact that i knowfrom the evidence of my own eyes. In Prance, for in-stance, as against our average cost of t^venty-four centsfor road transp;)rtation, the average cost is said to benot more than twelve cents per ton per mile. On thisbasis the office of public roads has estimated, if our costjf road transportation per ton per mile were the sameas the French cost, the saving to our shippers annuallywoifld amount to a tpiaiter of a billion of dollars. Infact. Mr. Arthur C. Jackson, jn-esident of the NationalGood Roads Association, in IflO!) estimated that in theUnited States liad roads are directly responsible f(nthe loss of over a l)illion dollars a year. and he said,truly euougli, that the saving of this stupendous sumconstitutes
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