Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 17, 1921, Page 4

| e s R R T e 1 | ILARGE SUM FOR GOOD ROADS Cost of Improvements Completed Dur- | ing Fiscal Year of 1920 Estimated ! at $80,000,000. |(Prepared by the United States Depart- B Sapre m:nt 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 of 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 lot expenditurq being only $37,000,000 A year. Comwparing the magnitude of the fed- 'eral-aid program with the entire high- /way program of the United States, the |siguificance of Federal aid is readily Building - Federal-Ald Roags— The Kind That Stand the Wear. |Been. Federal money ullotted to \projects actually under construction at 'the end of the fiscal year 1920, namely, $103925,00%, 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 economlc conditions, the amount of federal-ald busizess handled, as represented In 1920 by the number of projects, was approximstely 25 per cent greater dur- ing the single year than all previous work done under the act since 1916. HURSEP_OWER 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 these facts, accord- ing to the Oklahoman: Suppase a load welghing 6,270 pounds must be taken to market. On four different types of roads, the fol- lowing number of horses, it Is estimat- . ed, would be required to pull the load, using the same wagon in each case: On n ladse 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 a farmer uses one horse to pull his prod uets to market. On the various roads, with the same wagon, the horse can pull the following: About 800 pounds on a muddy dirt road. From 1,200 to 1,500 pounds on n smooth dry dirt road. About 3,000 pounds on a good graval roarl. From 5,000 to 6300 pounds on & good maendam road. 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 thelr automobiles instead of steam trains. With the aid of motor- cars, many eling salesmen have been able to cover wider territory and triple their number of calls, thereby reducing their selling costs considers ably. It, while in the country, you have suffered a serious Injury or had some member of the family 1ll, the prompt arrival of a doctor has, as you know, relieved you of hours of suffering and anxiety, Work of Road Machines. The latest concrete machine will lay ' concrete roadway 9 to 12 Inches in thickness, covering 14,000 square feet, dn a day. Automobile Roads in Japan. Flrst cluss narrow automobile roads jare now replucing the old foot paths dAn Japan. Firm Foundation Necessary. 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