without further thought, and yet this magnificent road 

 could be built at a cost of just five cents an acre to all the 

 benefited area. Every load of grain which a farmer hauls 

 over that road would more than pay his tax through the in- 

 creased efficiency of his team. 



Roads Needed to Develop Summer Tourist Trade. 



Nor is the farming community the only one that is benefited 

 through good roads. Our great undeveloped Northland has 

 great possibilities. Summer tourists drop some $9,000,000 

 annually in the Adirondacks. More than it could produce 

 from any other source. It is a legitimate business. Pew of 

 our own citizens know it, but there are portions of Northern 

 Minnesota which are in many ways equal to the Adirondacks. 

 They are capable of producing quite as high a revenue in the 

 same way and are kept from it largely because they are in- 

 accessible and comparatively unknown. 



Once put a few good trunk roads through that country and 

 the summer tourists would flock in like Bo-Peep's sheep 

 and like them would leave their "tales" behind them. It would 

 be the best advertising the country could get, would bring 

 in millions of revenue that is now given to other less at- 

 tractive sections of the country and would change some of 

 the beggared settlers who are trying to earn a bare exist- 

 ence from that niggardly soil into portly, well-fed landlords. 



What Good Roads Mean. 



Good roads mean increased profit on every farm, increased 

 pleasure for the automobile parties, decreased cost to the con- 

 sumers, of farm products and untold wealth to some of the 

 more barren sections of the North. No one would be excluded 

 from those benefits and all should combine their efforts to ob- 

 tain them. Don't hold back because a man you don't like is go- 

 ing ahead, it will only make you hate him more and put him 

 farther ahead of you. The state roads are good roads and 

 any district which does not use up every cent of those Elwell 

 and Dunn appropriations that they can legally get should 

 consider themselves disgraced. 



