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happen to get the road down in your county. You do not 

 have the Capitol down in your county, but you contributed to 

 it. You do not have an asykim in your county, but you con- 

 tributed to it. It is just the same with the roads; be a little 

 iiexible. The State Aid Law is the proper law for you to enact 

 at the coming- legislature; create a State of Iowa commission, 

 and you will be on the progressive road to improvement. 



]\Ir. Nichols : The gentleman spoke about John D. Rocke- 

 feller contributing these tanks of oil. I don't know whether 

 he pays any road tax in Iowa or not. He passes our house — 

 or his man does — at all seasons of the 3^ear and he hauls about 

 six thousand five hundred pounds on a common wagon. He 

 does more than all the farmers put together to cut up our roads. 

 I believe it is time for him to contribute something towards the 

 improvement of our roads. I do not know how much he pays. 

 I hate to see that oil tank come around. He used to have a 

 wooden tank, but he wasn't satisfied wiith that, there was too 

 much leakage, and now he has got the steel tanks. I don't 

 know whether we get enough out of Rockefeller, or not. I 

 just called attention to this to malce you people think of the 

 wide-tire wagon. 



Mr. MoorE : I am extremely glad to have you bring up that 

 question. I have used that argument a thousand times. If you 

 pass a State Aid Law, then, for whatever interest Rockefeller 

 has in the North- Western railway, he will assist you in paying 

 for these roads. 



A Membkr : I would like to ask if three hundred dollars 

 would make the foundation for such a road? 



Mr. MoorE: I am surprised that you gentlemen do not first 

 grade up your roads. \A'hy don't you do it? It will not cost 

 you from three hundred to five hundred dollars to first grade 

 up your roads; from three hundred dollars to five hundred dol- 

 lars a mile. Then it will cost yOu from three hundred and fifty 

 dollars to five hundred dollars to burn the clay. To put on that 

 clay, it will cost you from one thousand dollars to twelve hun- 

 dred dollars. All you have to do is to burn that clay, put it on 

 and roll it. 



