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This road across Missouri is a fixture ; it is here to stay, and sooner 

 or later, whether in one year, five, ten or fifteen years time, it will 

 eventually be a great highway. The long distance road is inevita- 

 ble, and I look upon the establishment of the cross-state highway 

 along the route of the Old Trails road as the greatest piece of road 

 work accomplished by your administration. 



Modern crushing plant — -capacity, 150 tons per nine hours. 



Some of the good road work of the State can well be illus- 

 trated by the selection of a few localities, so I beg to report upon 

 one township, two special districts, each district representing dif- 

 ferent conditions, and one county. Special mention is made of these 

 because we have been brought into close touch with them (there 

 are many others in the State doing as well) and because these 

 bring out distinctly the benefit of organization and close super- 

 vision, and are therefore good examples. 



SALISBURY TOWNSHIP, SALIBURY, MO. 



There are seven main roads, each five miles long, leading into 

 Salisbury, making a total of 35 miles of road. These roads are 

 being systematically dragged during the year. The system used 

 is to employ a man living on each road to drag the road along 

 which he lives when called upon to do so by the president of the 



