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roads have gridironed all the states, connecting cities 

 with cities, cities and lakes with the ocean, and 

 even paralleling canals and rivers. This kind of good 

 roads has been in such great demand by the people that 

 for the time being they were looked upon as the main 

 solution of the road problem. Freight is more cheaply 

 hauled on steel railways than on macadamized roadways. 

 Freight rates have been marvelously reduced. People 

 are able to travel many times faster than on wagon roads, 



road the pioneers traveled. 



and at the same time with far less expense, and with 

 much greater comfort and even with greater safety, 

 though the bicycle and the automobile are adding a new 

 importance to the well-made highway. These steel high- 

 ways have also revolutionized the distribution of mails 

 and made possible the widespread circulation of news 

 and greatly increased the entire activities of the whole 

 people. The competition of railways has forced traffic 

 on waterways into new activity and into developing 



