Our country and its resources; . THE BURDEN OF BAD ROADS EASY HAULAGE Copyright by Munn Sc Co., Inc. 104 OCR COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES. POOR ROADS—FARM TO RAILROAD-COSTLY WAY GOOD ROADS—FARM TO RAILROADCHEAP WAY Ohio has the greatesl good roadmileage, with 28,312, Nevada theleast, with G5 miles. Texas has thegreatest total mileage with 128,971, Island the least with 2,121. During the past twenty yearsState governments have heen activein a constantly increasing measurein behalf of road improvement. ToJanuary 1, 1915, expenditures aggre-gating $211,859,163 had heen madefrom the appropriati
Our country and its resources; . THE BURDEN OF BAD ROADS EASY HAULAGE Copyright by Munn Sc Co., Inc. 104 OCR COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES. POOR ROADS—FARM TO RAILROAD-COSTLY WAY GOOD ROADS—FARM TO RAILROADCHEAP WAY Ohio has the greatesl good roadmileage, with 28,312, Nevada theleast, with G5 miles. Texas has thegreatest total mileage with 128,971, Island the least with 2,121. During the past twenty yearsState governments have heen activein a constantly increasing measurein behalf of road improvement. ToJanuary 1, 1915, expenditures aggre-gating $211,859,163 had heen madefrom the appropriations by the legis-latures of 39 States. With thesefunds improved roads to the extentof 35,177 miles have heen construct-ed during this period of twentyyears at an average expenditure of$5,970 per mile. Yet we have notgood roads—and we are paying theprice. We pay in money, in lives,in Ignorance, in labor, in taxes, andin high COSl of living. Considering only a few phases ofthe subject, the investigator isstruck with the universal effect ofgood roads. Data obtained from the TwelfthCensus, compared with the roadstatistics, show
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