Middle Southern States Assuming the correctness of the data and using the census return of farm products and forest and mineral outputs and estimating incidental traffic General Stone arrives at a total of 313349227 tons as represent ing the total annual movement over country roads. At the average cost $ per ton the grand annual cost of haulage on public roads amounts to $946414665. Not including the loss of perishable products for want of access to market when prices are good and the use lessness of cultivating certain products which depend upon the markets being always accessible
Middle Southern States Assuming the correctness of the data and using the census return of farm products and forest and mineral outputs and estimating incidental traffic General Stone arrives at a total of 313349227 tons as represent ing the total annual movement over country roads. At the average cost $ per ton the grand annual cost of haulage on public roads amounts to $946414665. Not including the loss of perishable products for want of access to market when prices are good and the use lessness of cultivating certain products which depend upon the markets being always accessible statistics of the cost of operating foreign highways and the data obtained from the use of the few good roads existing in this country would indicate that nearly two-thirds of the above cost is directly chargeable to bad roads. The enforced idleness of men and horses during a large part of the year is another item which should be charged largely to bad roads. The negative or hostile attitude of the rural population toward all effective legislation in this direction is an obstacle also to road improvements in this country while another is the general overestimate of the cost of such improvement. cost $10000 per mile ; now equally good roads are being built for $3000 even where railway transporta tion of material is required ; and in localities better supplied with road material and where a narrower road is deemed sufficient $1500 or even less will make a mile of good stone road. Experience has demon strated the fact that in most country districts a single stone road 8 or 10 feet wide with a good earth road on one or both sides is more generally satisfactory than a wider road of macadam. tion of steel for highway construction and in answer to questions General Stone said the road proposed by the Department Of Agriculture was to be made of lon gitudinal stringers with about 8 inches of level sur face with a 3-inch flange to hold the ballast and a wheels in keeping on the track. These str
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