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that the work done and materials used may give the larger 

 measure of permanent results to the dirt roads of the common- 

 wealth. 



TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT BENEFIT OVER THE STATE. 



During the two now historic days a vast amount of work 

 was done on the Santa Fe trail, the Ozark trail, the northern 

 route or Lewis and Clark trail, and other old trails. But espe- 

 cially was the work poured onto the cross-county seat highways 

 by an unselfish local public in each county seeking to get cer- 

 tain roads into condition to pass State inspection to secure the 

 $15 per mile allowable to such approved roads under the Painter 

 State road dragging law. Eleven thousand miles of such roads 

 are now approved and receiving $15 per mile from the auto- 

 mobile and corporation license fund of the State. 



The work of good roads days, the sentiment stirred there- 

 by, the better grade of road machinery installed, the new spirit 

 of co-operation aroused as to roadmaking, the disposition of 

 citizens and overseers to study and apply the new methods — 

 these things have improved the highways of Missouri from 25 

 to 30 per cent. As Governor Major has well said, "The good 

 roads day spirit is still alive, and we will continue to battle for 

 good roads throughout the year of 1914 and thereafter. Good 

 roads are the avenues over which must pass the triumphal 

 march of industrial glory." 



