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exactly as is a man who drives a pair of horses recklessly. Each 

 case is judged on its merits, and the Connecticut law appreciates 

 that whereas 25 miles an hour may not be too fast on an open 

 road with no vehicles comiug, 8 miles an hour might be a dangerous 

 rate of speed in the crowded streets of a great city. 



Hon. Paul D. Sargent, Augusta, Me., State Highway Com- 

 missioner. 



I just wanted to say, in connection with the problem of trimk 

 line construction, that in the State of Maiae we have only this year 

 made a start in the building of State roads under State supervision, 

 although we have had a State road law since 1901. "Work has been 

 carried on without any supervision until the present year. Under 

 our law each town which makes appropriation for State road work 

 has its main thoroughfare designated as the State road. Some 

 470 towns have had such thoroughfares designated. These thor- 

 oughfares average in length about 6 miles, and altogether we have 

 at present about 3,000 miles of trunk lines so designated. During 

 the last seven years there has been expended about $800,000, and 

 in a way there has been reconstructed a little more than 400,000 

 miles. The present year about $250,000 . have been expended in 

 reconstructing about 90 miles of this main thoroughfare. 



The problem that confronts us in the State of Maine is our vast 

 area of sparsely settled territory and our lack of money. For 

 example, we have an area equal to about that of the five other New 

 England States. We have a valuation about one-tenth that of the 

 State of Massachusetts, and we have about as many people in the 

 whole State as there are in the city of Boston. I just wanted to 

 bring out a few of these facts, to show you how difficult will be 

 the problem of getting trunk lines in our State. We have a law, 

 however, which provides for the building of trunk lines with the 

 surplus funds appropriated by the State after the apportionment 

 is made for the various towns that apply for State aid, and under 

 the provisions of that law in time we will get some of these trunk 

 lines constructed. 



Mr. a. M. Lyman, Montague, Mass., Secretary Massachu- 

 setts Creamery Association. 

 A greeting is in order by me from the Massachusetts Creamery 

 Association to you in this noble and grand work that you have 

 undertaken, and the association wishes to assure you of its co- 

 operation. Co-operation is the motto of the association. It is an 



