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and warehouses were freely offered for use, and these good roads 

 days did more than any series of prior years to prove and pop- 

 ularize the worth and merit of traction machinery for road 

 making in Missouri. 



POPULAR SUBSCRIPTION LISTS. 



One of the efTicient and helpful methods employed to 

 gather the sinews of war on weedy and rough roads was that of 

 popular subscription lists that grew not unlike unto the his- 

 toric gourd of Jonah's day, yet they did not come to any sad 

 ending. The St. Louis Republic and other journals and many 

 clubs and committees raised substantial sums for furthering 

 the work of making better roads. 



STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER. 



Good roads days, as well as the general results of the year 

 1913, demonstrated in that eloquence that is unanswerable — 

 positive results — that the Legislature of 1913 builded wisely in 

 establishing a State Highway Department. 



Starting the work, inmates of State prison assisting. 



