Outing . a State, being the main Good Roads for the People 225 highways which follow the natural val-leys or are arbitrarily established in levelsections, will, when improved, leaveno farm further away than five milesfrom the main highways. Therefore, theimprovement of a comparatively smallpercentage of the total mileage is of acertain and positive value to the entireagricultural interests of the State, andit is proper that these roads should bebuilt and maintained at State expense,as rapidly as may be permitted without incorporated cities and villages. In otherwords, the steam and trolley dev
Outing . a State, being the main Good Roads for the People 225 highways which follow the natural val-leys or are arbitrarily established in levelsections, will, when improved, leaveno farm further away than five milesfrom the main highways. Therefore, theimprovement of a comparatively smallpercentage of the total mileage is of acertain and positive value to the entireagricultural interests of the State, andit is proper that these roads should bebuilt and maintained at State expense,as rapidly as may be permitted without incorporated cities and villages. In otherwords, the steam and trolley developmentfollowing the main valleys and thorough-fares through the mountain passes, andconnecting the centers of population asshown by our railroad maps of the UnitedStates, have done so by the improvementof practically a little less than one mileof steam and trolley road to each thirteenand two-thirds square miles of area. TableII on page 228 will illustrate this. It has taken nearly eighty years to build. In Crawford County, Pa., after the State Highway Department has been at work. the creation of a burdensome tax rateupon the people. TIME IN WHICH TO COMPLETE There are 2,728,780 square miles of areain the States admitted to the Union, andthe agricultural department estimates thatthis area has 2,745, 392 miles of public high-ways, or an average of one mile of highwayto each square mile of area. The samearea had in 1905, 199,704 miles of railroad,and 6,816 miles of trolley roads outside of and develop this system of steam has taken millions of capital. It hascreated in that eighty years the best rail-road engineers in the world, and in thesame period, the burial of the mistakes ofthese engineers has been enormous. Traffichas doubled and increased so that bridges,trestles and culverts have been abandoned,built and rebuilt again, iron rails convertedto steel, and steel rails increased in theircarrying capacity more than 100 per have been reduced and curves
Size: 1807px × 1383px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade, booksubjectsports, booksubjecttravel
