. Boone County Recorder . QUESTION OF BETTER ROADS Not Alone Affects Farmer and Auto-mobilist, but Is of Vital Impor-tance to Everybody. The good roads question is onewhich today is occupying the atten-tion of every thinking man in theUnited States. This question doesnot affect alone the farmer or auto-mobilist but is one which is of vitalimportance to all of us, owing to thefact that every extension of the goodroads movement and the completionof every new artery has resulted notonly in a greater production of food-stuffs in that particular section, buthas cheapened them on account of thesmall
. Boone County Recorder . QUESTION OF BETTER ROADS Not Alone Affects Farmer and Auto-mobilist, but Is of Vital Impor-tance to Everybody. The good roads question is onewhich today is occupying the atten-tion of every thinking man in theUnited States. This question doesnot affect alone the farmer or auto-mobilist but is one which is of vitalimportance to all of us, owing to thefact that every extension of the goodroads movement and the completionof every new artery has resulted notonly in a greater production of food-stuffs in that particular section, buthas cheapened them on account of thesmall cost of getting them into themarket. Although at the present time thereare between 15,000 and miles ofimproved roads in the United States,either under construction or proposed,no section of road is receiving thecareful investigation or is beingwatched as closely by the road mak-ers of the country and by good roadsadvocates, as is the 106-mile roadwhich Gen. T. Coleman du Pont isconstructing at his own expensethrou
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