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B HOME AND FARM "MAGAZINE SECTION Market Efficiency Depends on Roads A. S. Benson tolls of Canadian marts fed by best of main high ways. He advocates permanency of construction and explains the progress and expenditures of Clarke County and King County, Washington. ILTIT has been written latelv nnrl great interest taken in the efforts by press and public to start pub lie markets. We need these markets, and the sooner the better, but there is a phase in tho question of public mar kets often overlooked, namely thoir ro tation to and inter dependency on good roads. One is possible without the other, but without good public roads, markets io?e thoir efficiency. Permanent roads in conjunction with public markets, in my opinion, will do more to solvo the prjUem of high cost of living in less time and with greater efficiency than anything else. I While in Canada last fall I saw the public markets of tho Dominion in operation. There tho farmers drove as far as miles with their produce. One fanner woul 1 come one day, brineins his neighbor's produce as well as his own, and sell his neighbor's foodstuffs fer him, and on the following day the neighbor would Uko his turn. Markets wore held three days a week, In them tho consumer could ptirchaso the best of produce and tho freshrst at remark bly cheap prices. But don't overlook ne fact they have good roads. Markets Need Better Roads. I believe that the markets are not going to be the benefit that some peo ple' eipect; until ; we get better roads, roads mat can be depended "n, that can b'j ud every day in the year with easy grades so that the farmer can haul largo loads. Then he will be able to haul much more cheaply. The money wnicn now goes into a mud tax would bo saved. 1 have been informed that tho mud tax in the United States each year is larger than tho taxes that we pay for all our forms of government combined. You must rememDer that tho farm ers who nro going to tring produce to the public market cannot bring it on railroad trains, steamboats or electric ears, but must haul it with their own vchinles, whether team or auto truck. When the i-ad problem is better under stood by the people afc large everybody will be "howling" for good roads. The L Big Values in Used Cars "A lifted ear bought from the Winton Company is worth 80 per cent more than its duplicate anywhere else." We hear this: statement every day. The rea Bon is plain when it is remem bered that no traded-in car ia offered here for sale until it haa been thoroughly overhauled in our own shops by Winton ex perta and brought up to the Winton standard of automobile excellence. If you can appreciate what this enhanced value meana you will tend NOW for our com plete list of high-grade "used" car bargains. It goes without saying that s re-built car of high-grade manu facture which haa been operated only 10 per cent of it real mile age, tuat can be purchased at SO per cent of the original prhe will prove far more satisfactory and much less expensive than a cheap car bought new. Very little money will NOW buy one of these rebuilt cara that will give the best satisfac tion in both service and appear ance. Send today for our lateit complete bargain list. THE WINTON MOTOR CAE CO. Portland, Oregon. Spokane, Wash. Seattle, Wash. larger portion of the people in the city figure that the road problem does not coneern them, but it affects every man woman and child, both ia the city and country. Use- of tho Country Road. While tho city person may never ride on the country roads, he must not for get that nearly everything ho uses has to be hauled over some country road. Although Multnomah County does not have very much farming land, it is a very wealthy county, about 40 per cent of the wealth of the entire State of Oregon being in its borders. Then, too, there is a very rich farm ing country all around us. With the Interstate bridge built, Clarko County, Washington, will be as close to Port land as any of our Oregon counties. Somo of fur Ureeonians mav not real ize what that means but Clarke County has very rich farming lanus and it is away ahead of - Multnomah Countv on permanent road lonstruction. They havo about four times as much paved county roads as Multnomah County and are building more as fast as possible. Now then, what is the answer! Mult nomah County is worth about 20 times as much as Clarke County. With one third of the population and two-fifths of the wealth of the entire State of Oregon, we should lead the way. Autoists Interested. Some people will say, "I want good roads so that I can ride around in my automobile." I am fortunate enough to own an automobile and riding around in it is what first started mo thinking about roads; and the more I look into it the moro impressed I am with the great' benefit good roads will be to everyone. Multnomah - County has about 500 miles of countv road. With a 2-mill levy for road purposes for four or five years, every one of its county roads could be paved. With an eight or ten year maintenance that would mean a very light road tax after that. Just thiuk of it. In the last ten years Mult nomah Connty hs spent $2,000,000 on roads, with no pemancnt roads yet. With that same amount we could now pave all our county roads, over which practically everything we use could be hauled much more cheaply than now. These roads can all be made perma nent without hurting anyone. A 2-mill levy means $2 on each $1,000 of as sessed valuation, or a 2-mill levy each year for five years would mean $10 on each $1000 of assessed valuation. Can anyone say he will not benefit that much in proportion to whatever is his assessed valuation! Washington Leads. The State of Washington is at least 12 years ahead of Oregon on tho road problem. Whilo taxes are higher in Seattle than Portland, Samuel Hill tells mo one can live more cheaply there than in Portland, owing to its paved county roads and public markets. Do we want to lag along behind Seattlef Look at Los Angeles. With a popu lation of over 500,000. Just a few years ago it was no larger than Portland. Good roads are what built it up. Los Angeles has a good winter climate, but it never amounted to anything as a drawing card till they built good roads. The State of California and its counties are this year spending $40,000,000 on roads. King County, Washington, is spending $5,500,000 this year on roads. Are we to lag behind everybody else! An Important Problem. I believe the road question is the most important problem before the American people today; more important than tariff, currency or anything else. Good, high-class roads will do more to ward regulating rates on railroads than the Railroad Commission can ever hope to accomplish, and this will not hurt the rilroads, either, because these county roads will be the means of developing the rural districts and consequently make more business. I am sure the rail roads would far rather have the county roads to regulate their rates than to have the Railroad Commission 's regula tion, with their impractical ideas. Did you ever stop to think that about 80 per cent of the money spent for roads goes for labor. Thus we build roads and keep the money, also. That is, if we build good, permanent roads that will last, we have tho roads and the money also. I havo never met a man yet who has turned down tho idea after it was thoroughly explained to him. People in all walks of life would bene fit by building good roads. The average cost of macadam road is about $5,500 per mile. If there is heavy traffia on it, it costs about $1,000 a mile for main tenance. In ten years this means $15, 000, and in the meantime you have not had a good road. We can eet Daved roads for $100,000 a mile with a free maintenance for ten years. Does the proposition look unreasonable! I am not guess when I give those figures they are verified easily. The Man Who Knows a practical. nrnfiuhl tnna l. - iuucrnujiii. Write or call for refrrnnoAsi tab months to learn. Positions guaranteed. Watch aiming, engraving, optical School. 216 Commonwealth BIdg , 6th and Ankeny x-oruaua. uregon. , Get the Facts , Every young man and woman In the North- est, iug imnas 01 Business aa career, snouici send for oar free booklet "The Step ping Stone to Success." 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