Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-06-06
II TONS IN 1 HOUR.
Is the Amount Of Rock Broken by
the County's New Crusher
ON THE WARM SPRING ROAD
Mr.. Patterson, Who Has Charge Of Work,
Said to Have Solved Road Question
BY His invention.
by His Invention.

A resident Of Hedgesville district.
this county. In Speaking of the repair
ing of the Warm Spring road. said
that things looked like business
when he passed Friday afternoon.
The large portable crusher and road
graded which was ordered bv the coun-
ty commissioners at their last meeting
arrived in this city Monday, IL was
unloaded on Wednesday, and put to
work on Thursday and SO far the crush.
er has worked without hitch and is
crushing more stone than the commits
sioners expected. The grader is also
working in good form aud it is some
thing the county has needed for a long
time.
The crusher was first put to work
en- the Warm Spring road In Hedges
Vile district under the charge of Mr..
James Porterfield, supervisor of that
district, and Mr.. Porterfield is devot-
ing all of his time, as are his two sons,
to the repairing of the road. which has
been in verv bad condition in the
past. The crusher is placed on the
side of the road across the Cumberland
Valley tracks and the stone at present
is being taken from the old stone
fence around the property of Mr..
Trimble During Yesterday it crushed
at the rate of IL tons per hour, which
is more than crushed by any other in
this section before.
Three teams convey the stone to the
crusher and they are crushed as fast
as they are conveyed there. The broken
stone is then carried by the buckets to
a bin. which has been constructed by
Mr.. Patterson's sons and which holds
about 100 perch and is constructed in
a funnel shape. Mr.. Patterson has also
constructed a spreader which although
very simple in structure, is one of the
most convenient arrangements that has
ever been used on the roads. The
dumping of the stone is done by the
driver without him having to alight
from the wagon and distributes the
stone very regular. The grader goes
over the road first and throws the dirt
to the middle of the road and grades
it before the stone is put on.
The wagons are loaded from the bin
by the driver by the moving of lever
and by this arrangement the wagons
are loaded in very short time and
without much labor, these two being
the cause of great delay in former
work. Another praisable feature of
the crnsher is that it can be moved and
set for work in one hour and with this
easy and quick movement the stone
does not have to be conveyed from q
great distance to the crusher as the
crusher can be moved to any location
in less time.
1t is said ~ all that Mr.. Porterfield.
who invented the spreador. has solved
the road question, as the spreader does
the work of five men and two teams,
and thew further say that they only
wish that all of the supervisors of the
district would devote there time as he
has done so far, as it would only take
a short time to repair all of the roads
in the county. The representative Of
the builders of the machinery who was
to start the machinery, will be here
next week and by that time the super
yisors will be able to give him some
pointers on the machine. 1t is said by
those who have seen the machine
working that one would hardly know
that the machine was at work. there
being so little noise and the work be-
ing done in such a clock-work style.
The road that has been repaired, un-
like those in former years. seems like
road that had been used for a mum
Der of months and bot new one. il
being so regular and we'll packed.