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speed. Especially has ocean transportation received 

 impetus from this new form of steam and electric high- 

 ways. The world has become as a state and the state 

 as a county in respect to distances or the time required 

 to travel or to transport materials and spread the 

 world's news. Wagon roads, on the other hand, have 

 become only the terminal branches, the capillaries, to the 

 great transportation or circulatory system of the country 

 and the world. The people have been eager for railway 



Figure 174. The same road as in Fig. 173, prepared with macadam stone surfacing 

 for a civilization with consolidated rural schools. 



accommodations. They have contentedly paid high 

 freight and passenger charges, and railroading has been 

 sufficiently profitable to attract capital so that railroads 

 have been built into all sections of the country, often 

 reaching out far beyond settlements, thus carrying 

 civilization to the wilderness. Towns and counties have 

 voted bonds to attract railways, the contest often run- 

 ning high between towns desiring the location of the 

 new lines. Thus the attention of the people has been 

 directed toward securing the superb system of railway 



