Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1910 — For New Methods of Road Improvement in Indiana. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

For New Methods of Road Improvement in Indiana.

Only fifteen states do not assist in any way in the construction of public highways—and Indiana is one of them. The other states build highways at state expense, pay part of the cost when roads are built by counties, furnish engineering aid, provide convict labor, or In other ways assist in the work of providing good roads. Indiana does none of these. The following states have highway departments in charge of public roads: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, lowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, flew Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and the territory of New Mexico. These states build roads

and assist counties with money and ~ engineering service. Delaware, Florida, Kansas and Wisconsin have no state roads departments, but they extend both financial and engineering aid. A few states pay all the cost of construction of state roads and In addition pay part of the cost of county and township loads. The Indiana Association of Good Roads expects to present to the General Assembly of Indiana In January a bill creating a state highway commission and providing for state aid In the construction of roads. > Every citizen of Indiana interested in better roads for the state may assist in this effort by petitioning the members of the legislature from his district to favor such a law.