Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-07-22
THE SPLIT LOG DRAG.
anu Other Suggestions
Good Roads,

Good Roads.
~, @oao taxes must be paid in cash."
One roads leading to Morris must be
i0Palred;' "the streets of Morris
nosC De put in better shape, they
must be rounded up instead of filled
up"
these are only a few suggestions
Chat have been made to us in the
past few days.
Mr. Mcguire tells us that every one
VI the approaches to this town is in
DAD shape, and that SO far as the
roads are concerned, Morris is offer
ing an excellent inducement to
farmers to go to other places to
trade. These roads have had almost
impossible mudholes, but now the
mud has dried up, and the road is
lett very uneven. A little rain will
bring back the mud holes, and un.
less the roads are fixed, Morris will
De handicapped as marketing point
this fall. The worst places are just
inside or just outside the city limits
and at any rate so near the city
limits, that the business men will
stand behind any city administration
that will fix them.
Mr.. Dreveskracht, who is now
directing the work on the streets since
Mr.Long has been indisposed tells us
that the root of the whole trouble is
the system of working out the road
taxes instead of having them paid in
cash. He points out that the man
who is working out his road tax or
working for another does about
half to two-thirds the amount Of
work that the man does who is work
ing for contractor. Also that
under the present system, the coun
Gil does not know but little about
the street work, and the taxes are
soon worked out before the streets
are made permanently better, while
if the taxes were paid in cash, the
council would know just how much
they have to spend and could de,
eide just where to spend the money,
and let some of the work by contract.
The Split Log Drag,
While agreeing with both of the
suggestions offered, we wish that
every one at all interested in roads
would read the following review of
an article in the Saturday Evening
Post on the split log drag. Similar
articles have appeared in the Wallace
Farmer, and other agricultural
papers.
The Tribune was the first to sug
gest the septic tank system OF dis
posing OF sewage in Morris, and
while we haven't got that yet,
nevertheless when sewer system is
built, it will be septic tank sys-
TEN. Now we suggest TINT the
street commissioner go over tie
street with a split log drag after
every shower, The drag will do
the grading as we'll as making it
smooth and hard. and the drag
itself will not cost more than a
dollar or two.
The Drag Described.
Any suggestions for the better :
ment of county roads should be
needed. The suggestion offered is
new, and so simple that the road
builder will wonder why he never
thought of it before. Mr.. D. Ward
King, who writes of his simple dis
covery in the Saturday Evening
Post, has been secured by this gov
eminent to give practlcal demon
STATIONS of his methods IN different
sections Of the country and with
the different kinds of soil which
these sections offer for experimental
work. Some years ago Mr.. King
resided on a farm in Missouri and
suffered, in common with other
farmers, the inconveniences and
hardships of poor roads. At one
time he had reached the conclusion
that it was the fate of the farmer
to spend $500 to $4,000 mile for
macadamlzed roads OR else travel in