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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
March
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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It is universally admitted that the highways of this country are abominable, because of the way of working them. Last week in an interview President Harrison said : "This subject of roads I suppose every man is familiar with who lived in the country as I did in my youth. I have worked myself on the roads among my neighbors. It was the custoin to give a certain amount of our time or work to the road in place of taxes ; the farm people generally worked out their road tax. I have been among them and we have shovelled the dirt is the supervisors ordered from the sides of the road in the niiddle, where it would stay till the next rain. Then it would wash down again and be about as bad as before. In that way we have probably spent enough money during a long period of vears to have covered this land with first rate roads. Had we commeneed at one end of the road and put in our time there until we had a good sound piece of road, well drained or stoned or grayelled, it would have stood the test of time, and at the next road making lark or spree we should have put another piece upon it, and, in course of time, we should have finished roads in the nature of turnpike or macadamized roads. Every person on the road, however, wants work done before hisproperty, and consequently it is scattered alorig the line, and our roads are hardly better than they were fifty years, exceptin particular places where there has been sonie scientific method." The question is why do we not pass some eflective measures for changing this system?

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Ann Arbor Courier