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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
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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.
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this enhanced value meana you
will tend NOW for our com
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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
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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.
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