Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1913 — Good Rural Roads. [ARTICLE]

Good Rural Roads.

, The State of Missouri through her Farmers’ Institute work Is keeping the road question well to the front, mainly Insisting that something be done to keep the water away from the road bed, and that a system ot road dragging be practiced on all roads of earth. We consider anything short of the best hard roads to be but a makeshift, and have always Insisted, that In any section where land Is worth on the market from |6O an acre upward, the farmers cannot afford to do without hard roads. We know that It often Is said that Illinois, lowa other Western States have no material with which to build such roads, yet it Is a fact that road-making material has been transported by rail from- Illinois to Tennessee, and there built Into roads that cost but about (3,000 a mile. L_ .. .. Whenever a concerted determination is made to "get out of the mud," ways and means will not be found so very dfflcult, and in very many cases road making material In plenty can be had within a few miles of the line to be built. We have known stone and gravel to be hauled nine miles to build a turnpike road, and this In a section of the country where land on an average was not worth >25 per acre.—Farmer’s Voice.