Public Roads and Our Alcohol Bill by M. C. W.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 27, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 42.

Public Roads and Our Alcohol Bill

By M. C. W.

THE public road mileage in the United States is 2,199,645. Based on the average price of farm land an acre, the rights of way of these roads are worth ........................... $345,652,215 The cost of improved roads ................. 561,604,806 Total value .................................... 907,257,021

Our drink bill is over $2,000,000,000 a year. We could buy, with that drink bill, all the public roads in the United States, duplicate them by as many more miles, and have a neat little sum of more than $185,000,000 left. Does the liquor traffic pay? M. C. W.