Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1895-05-14
FAD ROADS IN oLAoKAMAs.
A Journal 5000 Mile wheelman Gives
Them Showing Up.
FARMER BEATTY's REPORT.
EAST PORTLAND, May 12. ,95.


ovor the notes of the trip. Left Sa
lem over the Champoeg road nortI
on Thursday morning and found road
good until l passed the crossroad from
Brooks, going west, then / found sum
mer fallow for several miles.
1t is strange that a man will under
take to make wheat field of tht
county road when wheat is 30 cheap
bat suppose the supervisor is short Of
llnd to farm and needs it. However
tle Inhabitants of that district have
knocked him out, for they have driven
right through the middle of his nice
summer fallow and made mudhole OF
from to 20 inches deep and sew
eral miles long. l climbed over in a
wheat field that had not been plowed
for four or five months and got along
hrst-rate. One farmer coDtended that
1t was necessary to summer fallow the
roads TO get the roadbed up above the
water, but saw no place but what had
plenty of fall within 10 to sixty rods
from drainage by tile, which is far
cheaper, as well as having the advan-
tage of permanence, where an elevated
ridge is being continually worn down
by water and foot. The tendency all
the time is to use the road machine too
much, at all places where 1t is in use
this making given distance cost more
than the old system of plow and
scraper. Again, most of the mauipu-
lators of these road machines pile up
the ridge highest in the high places,
hen accentuating the grades on rolling
ground, instead of filling the low
places from the higher as engineers on
-ailroad work would do.
The roads in the big bend of the
are in pretty good condi-
ion. All the hop men and farmers
ire up to their necks In work and
would talk only on the run. Your old |
rlend, John Carr, near st. Paul, was
mt In the hop field making full
land. His son is supervisor in that
district and of course they take THE
JOURNAL.
After getting again into Clackamas
'ounty / almost got stuck In the Mo-
ALA bottom. Tho road for about a
lalf mile is barely passable for footmen.
This road is disgrace 10 county, and
ess than a half mile from Ii is an i'm
nense gravel bed and mostly down.
I'LL road 10. take gravel from the pit 10 |
he bad places In the road.
The new gravel road out southeast
rom Candy is built on the usual plan
( plowlnR up ridge of loose dirt three
D FIVE feet high and then lot Of loose
rayel on the top Of 1.-THE ridge for the
ooI teams 10 drag narrow-tired wagons
Yer until the gravel Is beaten down
lto a cutters that is impossible 10 get
ut Of. A good road roller and thor.
ugh use Of II IL badly needed Ia every |
istrict,
Between New Ezra aud Oregon city !
be railroad track uses the only good
ite for road, which once occupied II !
ut now tbs oommon people drag their
1eary bones over the points Of the
ills aud are crowded into the nysr,
While the Iron horse sports along over
bsiF old highway "Tbs people DO
-" anyway.
Oregon City has oDs fine street made
4 pretty yltHnsd bdek. NJ H. e.
stephens, who WA = member VI the
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