Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1892 — A Good Road Law. [ARTICLE]

A Good Road Law.

The Michigan road law providing that the users of wide wagon wheel tires shall have a rebate of one half of their road tax, is an ingenious inducement which works great advantage to the taxpayer, to the roads, and, by consequence, to the general public. According to a writer in Good Roads “it is estimated that with broad tires on wagons, carriages and buggies all public highways can be kept in very much better condition than is now possible at one-fourth the cost of the present system. In the matter of road reform the first essential seems to be the widening of the tires of vehicles. The general adoption of this would be a long step of itself of in the direction of perfect roads. With out it perfect roads are practicallyimpossible? ’—Philadelphia Record. ~~ ~~~ ‘ - —.