The Canadian Road Makers

It -uM be impossible for any town ij bear the expense of macadainizing all its iniiiii roads at once. The coat would eal up ti' cutiré property of the town. Sucli a proposition is nianifestly absurd on its face. But the cost of macadami.in a short portion of the main roads of the towu i'ach year, in pursuance of a complete plan which would spread the worl; over fiftv years, would not begreat. It would nat be so great each year as the cost of ïuaintaining the extra teams wliidi bad roads couipel farmers and teamsters to maintain. In man; parts of Canada they have as good roads as Europe - roads which are a daily Messing to every traveler, and which invariably draw froin the visitor of New England habitat the wonder how so pooi and sparsely settled a country as Canada c;m have bo ïuuch better roads than thickly settled, rich New England. The aiisHcr is simple: The Canadian road makers began with an Intelligent plan and puipose. For years thsy have been ïuacadumizing as much road as their means would allow. Every scason i,rri;it piles of stoius are broken and heupod all along the road-side. Wlion a hole develope itaelf enough of these broken stones are taken from the neorest pile to luend the defoct while it is slight. When the road inaking season comes on, what is lift of the broken stones is used to extend the macadam. Everv year the area of good roads extends, and ever; yeat the good roads grow better. If, fifty years ago, the business of road muUing in tliis littlo staie had been undertaken with a similar purpose and purgued witli .similar economy aud skill, there would not today be a single mile of bad, or oven poor. road in Connecticut. If a similar pian should be adopted this year, anothcr half century would see the lame result, without any appreciable yearly increase in the cost of road making, and with a constantly decreasing expenditure for horse flesh aud wagons. -