Our Neighborhood; Good Citizenship in Rural Communities
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9. If a good road increases the market value of land five dollars an acre for a distance of half a mile on each side of the road, how much increase would there be in the price of farms lying along one mile of road? Along a road twenty miles long? If it cost SI, 500 to make the road, could the farmers afford to pay it? 10. A set of good harness can be bought for thirty-five dollars. On good roads this harness will last for ten years. On bad roads it wiD last about three years. If the farmers of ...the community drive seventy 180 OUR NEIGHBORHOOD teams over bad roads constantly for ten years, what will the com- munity lose on harness alone? 11. The life of a wagon on good roads and bad roads is about the same as that of harness. How much would the above community lose on wagons in ten years if wagons cost seventy dollars each? 12. It costs about eight cents to haul a ton of produce on one mile of well-graded road. On very bad roads it costs about three times as much. How much does a farmer lose who hauls twelve tons of pro- duce over eight miles of bad roads?
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