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and is the connectiug link for local traffic with the means for long dis- 

 tance transportation. Placing markers upon old trails and expending 

 energy and money upon cross-state roads does not serve the best interest 

 of the State, nor of road improvement, unless they be so routed to be 

 of value to the local communities through which they are built. This 

 question of good country community roads is one of the most vital with 

 which the people of Missouri have to deal today. There is no one 

 internal improvement so necessary and essential to the progress and 

 prosperity of the State as that of the betterment of the highways, the 

 betterment of the means for local transportation and country com- 

 munity life, the improvement of the local wagon road. 



Yours truly, 



Curtis Hill, State Highway Engineer. 



