The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-12-10
Plank Roads Continued.

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I'm estimate hes been made BY our best
men; and they find that the average num-
Der Of TEAMS passing over the roads West
and North is twenty per day, each way.
The road 10 Laror:c would be 50 miles
long, which would be 81 cents toll for
each team, 40 teams would be S23, 60
per day. If yCu go by the toll bridge your
toll is 80 cents now-part of the plank
road is already laid, and if you go that
way your toll is . cents. and certainly
when one drives out of the mud onto the
plank, lie feels land so does his isam) that
he would pay the balance Of ;he toll
cheerfully for the balance Of the road in
plank. To South Bend the toll would
be -i8 cents. and 40 teams would make
1920 per day. The toll now is 20 cts.
and we would checrfully pay the other
% cents to ride all the way on the plank.
We now Fay from 10 to - cents per
bushel for hauling off our grain, and 25 to
80 bushels is heavy load,-wi,h the
plank we could haul from 30 10 SO bush
els. and a. much less price. and our buy
erS could afford 10 pay nearer Michigan
City prices in the same proportion. You
can take the income of the road as above
stated, and calculate it for one year. and
YOU have TO Larorte 1914, co. Allow
ing the road to cost $1,000. 90 per mile.
(Which ii will mott we have a very fair
profit on the money. To say nothing Of
the facilities of travelling, the increase
of travel in that Sine, and all the little
benefits, every one must Sec that it re-
bounds 10 the benefit Of ALL Land in
creases at least 25 per cent. With an
increase of facilities for marketing pro-
duce. there will be an increase of quanti-
~. and the time now taken up in toi.ing
through the mud. would then be devoted
10 clearing more land, and raising more
grain and stock, 10 be sold at better prl-
ces; for t. the buyers here will not bid
mp, the farmer can haul off his produce
50 and 80 bushels 10 the load instead oil
% 10 SO. so quicker, and pay but little
more toll. 1t holds good with every pro.
duction and We have only to cypher q
little, and as figures don't le' we can SET
The immense benefit at glance. VIVA,
are our people doing then? Why dom
they take share in the plank roads ant
put them through? They can make more
money In two years BY that, and have the
road, than they can by making $500 o
improvement and spend it's value in get
ting to market-and the advanced prices
they pay for goods. Think of it, Onl,
nine miles Of Road to build, Ito get to La
porte or Plank. Why don't you sub
scribe $4,000 in money plank and work
and pat it through? Only Ii miles tt
build 10 get TO South Bend?-and thu
stock paying 20 per cent, aud selling a
TO 70 per cent premium after the roa,
is done! .. Let every man come up 10 tn,
work and take one or more shares Ant
if you can't raise SO dollars, three or fou
club together, and take a share jointly
until you get every man i'll the count,
into it. And then make good road
Lay down your plank one foot wide MIN
feet long, and full two and half inche
thick, and it will stay there. With Raj
Roads all around us, and thorou5hfare
opening in every direction. We ar
''s;oning the squirrel, while the dog i
robbing our dinner basket" Wake u
then, and show US the man that says h
won't take share in it ami push it thrC
and we will show you the man tina
goes to mill with the wheat in one Ell
of the bog. and stone in the other "be
Cause his father did More anon.
GS-T The Goshen Democrat is down thi
week again, on the State Sentinel. Fo
sne:we are tired of this eternal bickerin
about the State Auditor. w. J. Brow
had better let him alone. He has pound
ed him long enough, and the people al
Tired OF it. When the Wilmot Proyis
went his death against it. After littI
time he changed his notions and came OF
in favor Of it and his excuse was, 9TH