The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-12-19
SALT CREEK.


places, rs being feasible enterprises
In Hooking County. Well, |, as an
old time moss back, have stood
against the new tangled modern
Improvement plan, till / joined the
"protectionjst" side and forsaken
the old way of going to mill with
stones in one end of the sack, for
there is good economy in quick and
easy transportation, a saving of
time and labor and horse flesh; 1t
is true taxes are hard to pay at the
present rate but with better roads
and better markets the farmer
would double his income and would
be more able to pay for time for
permanent medium of transpor-
tation, reciprocation of other in
dustries in his own town and coun-
try will induce capital and labor
and enhance values in property
and his taxes will be proportionate
and not burdensome. The farmer,
the stock dealer, and the producer
will be in ready line to the consum-
er, the merchant and mechanic, as
no man can live unto himself. In
this connection / will give an esti-
mate for the aerial enterprise for
which am an advocate.
We will suppose then that Hook
ing County will build four pixies,
each 90 miles in length, extending
across the county and terminating
at Logan which would a line of 80
miles and say put the cost of build
ing at 100000 and to bond the
county for money from one to ten
years, would make the bonds cost
S55O,0O0, or $4,000 each year. Let
us now reason from the peoples
side, and see what can be saved in
ten years and the "Fawn Skin
ours;" say there are 200 farmers in
the range of the four pixies of 80
miles. Then for q comparison say
their yearly traffic is equal to 1000
bushels of wheat each put into the
Logan market by teams, and at the
present and past status of roads
are such that 20 to 25 bushels of
wheat and its equivalent in weight
is an average load at the best and
outrageous at the worst, condition
of roads. No one was ever known
to start from Salt Creek to Logan
with 25 bushels of wheat and no
one will risk prosecution for cruelty
as long as present conditions exist.
We can safely estimate that with
good solid pike a farmer can
easily haul so bushels of wheat to
Logan and thus save at least half
of the time of hauling; say then
that half of the farmers live too far
away to make a trip to market and
back home in one day, then they
will have to lodge in town over
night at cost of $3.50 and the cost
of team per day at SO per day, and
Sl.5O for lodging, making $3.50 cost
per day, at half time for 400 farm
ers saved in marketing 1000
bushels of wheat each, is $4,000 for
one year or 100000, and 400 farm
ers, residing within 10 miles. Say
teams are worth SO per day and time
saved one half or 90 loads of wheat
or $50, and for 400 farmers 1924 ,OOC
for ten years, and footing up to
tai saving of 100000 by this little
estimate and costing in loss $50, ,OOC
more than 80 miles of pike in ten
years, and without pike it is diff
ficult to tell how many articles
might be made marketable and
how much more profit might accrue
to the easy lines of supply in ter
years. The money paid out fol
pixies will 60 into the hands Of the
laborers and put into the pockets
of farmers and merchants for nee.
essaries and everybody will get 9
grab at it and everybody will be
better off by 1t, its circulation will
be blessing and its use will pay
for itself. 1t would be better for
Hooking Comfy than the "free
coinage of silver" Now either say
something for this enterprise OF
quit grumbling about mud and bad
roads. Now don't all speak al
once but one or a half dozen O,
more come out in each issue of the
paper and give your opinion.
HILLICAN BEN
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Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers
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