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Identifier: outing51newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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In Crawford County, Pa., after the State Highway Department has been at work. the creation of a burdensome tax rateupon the people. TIME IN WHICH TO COMPLETE There are 2,728,780 square miles of areain the States admitted to the Union, andthe agricultural department estimates thatthis area has 2,745, 392 miles of public high-ways, or an average of one mile of highwayto each square mile of area. The samearea had in 1905, 199,704 miles of railroad,and 6,816 miles of trolley roads outside of and develop this system of steam roads.It has taken millions of capital. It hascreated in that eighty years the best rail-road engineers in the world, and in thesame period, the burial of the mistakes ofthese engineers has been enormous. Traffichas doubled and increased so that bridges,trestles and culverts have been abandoned,built and rebuilt again, iron rails convertedto steel, and steel rails increased in theircarrying capacity more than 100 per cent.Grades have been reduced and curves
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Farmington Road, in Connecticut, treated with a coal tar preparation to prevent formation of dust. straightened. Engines and cars, bothfreight and passenger have been hurled intothe scrap heap at an enormous loss, and yetthe ever increasing earning power of theroad as tonnage has increased, has per-mitted the continued increase of the capi-talization and the obtaining from thepeople of additional money to develop andimprove the facilities in carrying of freightand transportation as offered to the public.And still at this moment, greater accom-modations, and greater carrying capacity isrequired and additional funds for its crea-tion needed. Looking, therefore, at themillions of money, and the time requiredfor the development of our steam roadsystem, it would seem that starting now,we are approaching a distinctively histori-cal era in improved road building. Andthis improvement, using the greatest intel-ligence of each State, and all of the energyand force of the respective sections of

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