Southern good roads . iiil I h is cost. andciiiisei|uent l,\ the eiilirc cost of li\ing. ahoul which weheal so much nowadays, is tremendously altccted hythe condition of mir piihlic ioads. .Mr, St 11 \ \es;iiit president of I i i iliois ( eiil ra I Ra 11 mad. sa id : ?Thecost of t Iansporlat mil dies not hegin at the railroadstation, hut at the farm. So far as the transportationi-omp;inies arc concerned, they liaxe got ahoiit at theend of Ildiicl ion in freight charges. Then where arewe going to econonii,^.e . It can he done, and it sh midhe done, ill the cost of transportation on t
Southern good roads . iiil I h is cost. andciiiisei|uent l,\ the eiilirc cost of li\ing. ahoul which weheal so much nowadays, is tremendously altccted hythe condition of mir piihlic ioads. .Mr, St 11 \ \es;iiit president of I i i iliois ( eiil ra I Ra 11 mad. sa id : ?Thecost of t Iansporlat mil dies not hegin at the railroadstation, hut at the farm. So far as the transportationi-omp;inies arc concerned, they liaxe got ahoiit at theend of Ildiicl ion in freight charges. Then where arewe going to econonii,^.e . It can he done, and it sh midhe done, ill the cost of transportation on the |iulilicmads of the count i>. \ow. ^ve may or m;iy not agreewith the pro posit 1 111 that rail w;iy i;i I es should he ma 111-taiiied -we are not concerned with that question here;hut there is no escape from the tlUlll of the statementthai total t r;iiispiirt at ion costs are \-icioiisl\ aflectedh\ the jiior condition of our public r lads. It has hceiieslimaled !i\ ,Mr, Sto^Vl, wlinii I lia\e already (| Curve nn La Koehe .\venue. Savannah Auto CourseTreated with Indian Liquid Asphalt tlial a minimniii of tons of freight arehandled .iniiiially o\er oiii public mads to tlie railroadstations of the Iliiteil Slates, I have 111 means ofkiiowinc how much of this total tonnage is handled inSouth (aroliiia. lull we iiaxe our slnire of it. fhe a\-erage cost of hauling o\ei t!ie public mads in this couii-t r.\ is ;ibou1 twenty-four cents per tmi mile, and the;i\eiaer haul is about nine miles. The saiiu authorstates that this 1 raiispoilat ion o\er our iniblie roads torailroad, stalioiis represents an annual outlay of con-siderably o\er iialf a billion dollars, 1 do not f:nowhow ;iciurate the liguresaie. but their \eiy immensitymust uive us some idea as t > the extent to which thecost of this mad transportation affects ns economically. The ollice III public road,<. to which I have alluded,has in\ entolicd all the piiblii- roads of the rnited States,and c
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