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Identifier: Boone_County_Recorder_Vol_40_1914 (find matches)
Title: Boone County Recorder
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Boone County Recorder
Subjects: Boone County, Kentucky newspapers
Publisher: Boone County Recorder
Contributing Library: Boone County Public Library
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per ton tohaul his produce to market. It coststhe American farmer an average of25 cents a mile per ton, or 100 percent, more than the Frenchman. Dur-ing the year 1905-1906 hauling offarm produce to shipping pointsamounted to between forty and forty-five million tons weight. The averagehaul was 9.4 miles. If the farmerscould have done their Muling overFrench roads, Instead of their owninferior ones they would have netted158,900,000 more on.their crops. But all the hauling to shippingpoints is not done by farmers by anymeans. The interstate commercecommission tells us that in all some-thing like 250,000,000 tons are hauledfor shipment every year. The willing-ness to move this immense volume offreight over poor roads, as againstgood roads such as France enjoys,costs the country a cool unnecessary1305,000,000 a year. These figures and facts come fromthe office of Logan Waller Page, theUnited States director of public works. BONDS IN NEW YORK STATE Second Issue of >80,00O,O00 Was Great-
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THE QUESTION Is not Where Can I. Get the CheapestGlasses? but Where Can I Get MyEyes Tested Correctly and Get the Best-Glasses! i Glasses that do not make your vision5 perfect are dear at any^riee,We guarantee every glass we fit andgrind to suit your eyes in Bize, shpae and strength N. F. Penn, M. D. *!» Moich, Jeweler, 613 Madison Avenue, - - - COVINGTON. KENTUCKY Phone, South 1746. rwmmmmm mm—mm mmmmmmmmFIFTY-SECOND SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT OF TjfEf Doone County Deposit Bank Burlington, KentuckyAt dose of Business December 31, 1912. • RESOURCES,p Leans, Bonus, dtu—$l7o.l Overdrafts Due from Banks Cash Banking House, &c. 52.81 38,391.04 £211.8o 3,000.00 Total $220,014.15 LIABILITIES, -Stock f 30«000r Surplus 45,000.00 Undivided Profits, Ac 7,581,49 Deposits 136,591.35 Due Banks 841.31 Total $220,014.15

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