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*r LARGE SUM FOR GOOD ROADS Post of Improvements Completed Dun* ins Fiscal Year of 1020 Estimated at $80,000,000. {Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture) Federal-aid highways constructed last year cost mora than double the average amount annually for ten years In building the Panama canal. The cost pf the work completed during the fis cal year of 1920, Including the amount paid by the states, totaled approxi mately $80,000,000. The construction of the canal Is re garded the world over as a record breaking achievement in respect to the dispatch with which it was carried out. The cost, however, was only $373,000,- 000, and a ten-year period was re quired to complete it, the average rate of expenditure, being only, $37,000,000 a year. Comparing the magnitude of the fed eral-aid program with the entire high way program of the United States, the {significance of Federal aid is readily Building Fetferal-Ald RoanThe Kind That Stand the Wear. jHeen. Federal money allotted to (projects actually under construction at the end of the fiscal year 1920, namely, $103,923,09^, was only slightly less than the total expenditure of $106,- 861,053 from state funds for highway construction during the calendar year 1919. In spite of untoward economic conditions, the amount of federal-aid business handled, as represented in 1920 by the number of projects, was approxlmutely 25 per cent greater dur ing the single year than all previous T\ork done under the act since 1916. HORSEPOWER ON GOOD ROADS Figures Show How Hard Surfacing of Highways Facilitates Transpor tation to Market The value of hard surfaced roads 'in getting products to market or in taking goods from the cities to the farms Is shown by thPse facts, accord ing to the Oklnhomnn: Suppose a load weighing 6,270 pounds must be taken to market. On four different types of roads, the fol lowint! number of horses, It Is estimat ed, would be required to pull the load, using the same wagon in each case: On a loose sand or mud road, ten horses. On a dirt road, five horses. On a gravel road, two horses. On a good macadam road, one horse To illustrate again: Suppose fanner uses one horse to pull his prod ucts to market. On the various roads, with the same wagon, the horse can pull the following: About 800 pounds on a muddy dirt rond. From 1,200 to 1,500 pounds on a smooth dry dirt rond. About 3,000 pounds on a good gravel road. From 5,000 to 6,300 pounds on a good macadam rond. VARIOUS USES OF HIGHWAYS Good Roads of Inestimable Value to Farmers, Doctors and Salesmen Who Rely on Motors. Good roads have a bigger object than merely to pave the way to faster and more economical distribution of products. Good roads are of Inestim able value to traveling salesmen, farmers and country doctors, who rely on their automobiles Instead of steam trains. With the aid of motor cars, many traveling salesmen have been able to co\or wider territory and triple their number of calls, thereby reducing their selling costs consider, ably. If, while in the country, you have suffered a serious injury or l\ad some member of the family 111, the prompt arrival of a doctor has, as you know, relieved you of hours of 'suffering and anxiety. Work of Road Machines. Thb latest concrete machine will lay a concrete roadway 9 to 12 Inches in thickness, covering 14,000 square feet, in a day. Automobile Roads in Japan, First class narrow automobile roads jjarc now repluclug the old foot paths (in Japan. Firm Foundation Necessary. 1 The finest paving material In the work) will break down if it has no Iflrm foundation. Subscribe tor The Daily Plonesr. 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