Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1905-09-14
Benefits from Good Roads.

Ihaye been thinking Of writing to tho
readers of the News for long long
time. Laziness or negligence is my
only excuse.
noticed in the last issue OF the News
an account Of two loads of people haul
ed on the pike to South Pttsburg.
That ought to be lesson to the far
mers of the county. Compare the weight
of those people with the load that they
used to haul over the same distance be-
fore the pixies were made. With good
pike it is not how much mule can pull
but how much a wagon can hold up.
saw one horse pull 1000 pounds on a
two-wheel dray up tue bank of the riv-
or at Nashville from the wharf to the
public square. The same horse could
not have pulled one Thousand pounds
through the Battle Creek valley during
the winter or spring of the year on the
same trucks which we're only three feet
high. 1t pays big to have good, solid
roads.
Another fact that will call the at
tention of the farmers to. Lay your
hat down fat on the ground and meas
ure it half way round the brim, then
turn it upon the edge of the brim and
see how much it measures across it,
You will find it a great deal nearer to
20 over the top of the hat brim stand
ing on it's edge, than 1T is to go round it
lying fiat on the ground. just so 1t is
much nearer to climb over steep hill
than 1t is to circle round the foot OF it.
That is the reason our dads took the
nigh cut over the hill instead of going
round it. Nearly all the hills in Sc
quachee valley run in the same direct
ion with the valley, so il road should
happen to be made along the foot OF
the ridges instead OF climbing to
to their tops and following their mean
derings up and down, it would be aw-
full. The farmer would be able to pull
his entire crop at ono load, and it would
be bad If he could not raise more than
one load OF corn during the crop season.
Another reason for pulling up hill and
through mud holes He could get to
market oftener, by being compelled to
haul more little loads than If he took ii
all at once. So | suggest that in order
to get more times to go to market that
the farmers, who are most interested
and benefited by public roads, stick to
the roads OF our daddies so as to raise
more loads of produce for the market
Another thing. to take into considera-
ton. Wagons and teams won't wear
out near so quick on pixies as on rough
roads filled with mud holes, which will
: be against the interest of wagon max.
ers and blacksmiths.
II a farmer was to take all his crop tc
market at one load instead of seven he
would have to fool away a good deal o.
idle time reading newspapers and books
which would be awful bad on account
of more scientific farming and becom-
coming acquainted with the worlds
progress. / have often thought it was
'misfortunate" accident when the old
Dutchman's boy found out that he
could carry corn In both ends of the bag
instead of a stone in one end, and corr
in the other to mill. You see the corr
: in both ends of the sack made the mea
last longer by half, thus depriving thu
boy of the pleasure of going to mill b.
half the number of times.
Fight the road tax, farmers, to you
ruin. You can't afford to only raise
one load of corn on ten acre lot. |
would not speak much for your thrift
! Now suppose some fool or other was t.
suggest rail of good solid wood or irol
: to be laid in concrete same as stree
car tracks are laid in cities, and alst
suggest the cutting of tunnels through
the ridges, so as to make the grade lev
: ell, it would make it so any horse o
mule could pull the entire crop OF hal
you farmers, which would be an ever
lasting calamity by forcing them in
to colonies or putting them to reading
studying or singing during long white
evenings in moments saved from mar
keting crops.
J No, it will never do to have too goo
roads. Wagon makers and blacksmith
would however, have to work at some
a thing else besides their trade il goo
. roads get to be too common.
w. s. Griffith is in st. Vincent's Hos
J. pital in Birmingham, Ala, very 10
with stone in bladder. He went Their
to have it cut out, but was too weak
l. undergo the operation. They are try
q ing to brace him up for the operation.
Crops are very short in St. Clair, Ala
o N. B. Spears family and A. L. Gri
: hths family are all we'll.
MORE ANON.