Southern good roads . e value ofthe agricultural product to tlie farmer who produces it. Improvements in railway transportation facilitiesare approaching a high state of efficiency, while thepublic highways have in many states been greatly neg-lected. The people are. however, now turning their at-tention to the question of the improvement of public , and, although this awakening has come ratherlate, the people of the south will attack it with thesame force and vigor that they have taken up otherCjuestions (jf vital importance to the state and to thenation. In North Carolina the good roa
Southern good roads . e value ofthe agricultural product to tlie farmer who produces it. Improvements in railway transportation facilitiesare approaching a high state of efficiency, while thepublic highways have in many states been greatly neg-lected. The people are. however, now turning their at-tention to the question of the improvement of public , and, although this awakening has come ratherlate, the people of the south will attack it with thesame force and vigor that they have taken up otherCjuestions (jf vital importance to the state and to thenation. In North Carolina the good roads movement hasspread to such an extent that now it is uot Do wewant good roads? but How can we obtain goodroads? Of the 100 counties in the state containingapproximately . miles of public roads, a verylarge majority of them have given expression to theirinterest in good roads by having bills introduced atthe last two sessions of tlie legislature relating to theimprovement of the public romls in their respective. Sand Clay Rnad. Franklinton Township. Franklin Cuimty. Nurtli Carolina counties. This does not mean, however, that all thesecounties are constructing macadam roads or even goodgraded roads but that they have begun to realize theneed of good roads and are making an attempt to rem-edy tlie evil of poor roads. I wish to review briefly the practical or beneficial re-sults to lie derived liy a community from the construc-tion of good roads and why we cannot afford not toliave thcni. x\s you will notic(\ the benefits applylargely to the rural sections, rather than to the incor-porated towns and cities, and it may be well to statehere that the money raised by bond issues, authorizedby counties or townships, is in nearly every case to bespent for the construction of improved roads outsideincorporated towns and cities. 8 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS May, 1911 Beneficial Results of Good Roads. Oue of the rhief l)eiieliLial retsults from god roadsis that the fanner, fruit-grower, tr
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