Canadian Forestry; Journal, January, 1920 



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This section indicates a suitable arrangement wl-iere an electric railway is on the road allowance, 

 a ditch between the roadway and the electric line reduces the cost of road maintenance and 

 provides increased safety. A width of 90 feet gives sufficient width for the preservation of 



trees. 



86 feet requires approximately two and one-half 

 acres per mile. This acreage per mile means a 

 very small area from each farm. Where electric 

 railways are now m existence or anticipated, a 

 width of at least 90 feet is desirable. Unques- 

 tionably a farm fronting on a wide, safe high- 

 way, carrying a full complement of telephone 

 and power service, a convenient foot-path, and 

 lined with trees, is benefited thereby much more 

 than the value of the additional land necessary. 

 In an important sense, the land is not taken 

 from the front of the property, for the travelled 

 roadway is no nearer to the buildings; and the 

 farm still has a front, but on a better and more 

 imposing highway. 



The co-operation of property ow'ners should 

 therefore arise from self-interest, as well as from 

 a spirit of patriotism in attaining a work of such 

 manifest public and private advantage — a work 

 of which the province as a whole may well feel 

 proud. 



While co-operation is sought, the Department 

 feels it desirable, on behalf of Provincial bene- 

 fit, to pay property owners for the land an 

 amount which will be equitable and relieve them 

 of temporary inconvenience. But the Depart- 

 ment does not feel justified in entering upon a 

 large expenditure for this purpose, in view of 

 the benefit directly accruing therefrom to those 

 from whom the necessary but small amount of 

 land is bought. 



On a 66-f()<)i highway, where adciiuale width is reserved fu 

 that tiiMS ari' suhji'ct t<> destruction to meet the nc 



and power services. 



mail and drainage. It is evident 



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