2000 mile automobile road, even it' but a tenth is ever 

 accomplished. At least it will mark the beginning of 

 a good work, and once we are accustomed to move 

 round in automobiles, who knows but what there will 

 be no stopping till transit able roads are the cry of the 

 day, just as unprejudiced voting, or old age pensions, 

 etc., are at times efficient political war-cries? 



If these reasons cannot induce the National Gov- 

 ernment to move in the matter, there is no reason why 

 other of the Provincial Governments should not adopt 

 the policy of the two provinces which have attempted 

 to make roads part of their programme Buenos Aires 

 and Cordoba. The provinces where stone can be ob- 

 tained are most interested parties in seeing a new 

 source of industry spring up in their midst, without 

 mentioning the general advantages of scattering over 

 the country, innumerable bodies of men, and offering, 

 precisely when work is hard to find, at least bread and 

 butter jobs for the unskilled, and permanent work for 

 the skilled, let alone openings for numerous budding 

 engineers, without dwelling on the higher sinecures for 

 politicians . 



The railways, too, might be doubly interested in 

 the transport of the stone required to metal the roads, 

 and if paving the entire country ways is settled on even 

 at an exceptionally low rate of freight it will be a 

 source of income not to be despised. 



RURAL TOWN PAVEMENTS. 



The day that sees our rural towns and ''pueblos" 

 with something better than the average dusty streets 

 will likewise see a decidedly happier existence for the 

 inhabitants, and here I would like to suggest ^ that an 

 attempt might be made to introduce the system of pav- 

 ing the little used streets with "Klinkers", or glazed 

 burnt bricks, which besides being an extremely econo^ 

 mical pavement, has the advantage of being a local in- 

 dustry. It has found great acceptance in the United 

 States, and in the smaller towns which have sprung up 

 with such surprising exhuberance all over North Amer- 

 ica is more often than not the only pavement one sees 

 at all. 



In any plan for good roads, those of our small 

 country towns merit almost as much attention as do 

 the national and provincial ways, more so even, if the 

 intensity of the population has any thing to say in the 

 matter, and real rural progress is sought for, since it 



