Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-12-15

These are timely questions, Mr.. Post
GOOD ROADS.
The split log drag is being tested
by the commissioners court in road
making. A good sign.-Blossom Bee
When you get tired of thinking OF
talking about good roads, and are
worried because of bad roads, dig uT
split log drag and give it a fair
trial.-Corsicana Sun.
Road improvement is a thing of the
past in this county. The teams are
on the convict farm, when they should
be hauling rock and making rock
crossings over gulleys and branches
which now have bridges over them.
Tyler Courier
If Cooke county were as poor as a
number of her sisters, there would be
some excuse for having no good
roads, but in a wealthy county like
this we should find mile after mile
of roads that the worst season would
not affect.-Gainesyil Messenger.
The best way to get the split log
drag into general use is for some
Yankee in a Yankee town to manu-
facture them out of turned wood with
beveled edges. painted red, and slap
on them say a price of $3.50 each. We
will then mortgage our farms TO buy
them and fight for the right of way
to run them over the public roads
Paris Advocate.
D.
The town that has good roads lead
ing to it is the town of the future,
and this town is one that is in the
middle of a bad fix in that respect.
The merchant who waits for the
county to build up the weak places
in the roads leading to Abilene will
wait until the cream of the trade has
gone to other places. Fact, and not
fancy, governs these days.-Abilene
Reporter.
Introduce the split log drag and be
done with your woes.-Fort Worth
Star.
The National Good Roads Associa-
ton is in session today in Muskogee.
and from reports made by the presi.
dent and secretary of that organiza-
ton it would appear that the good
roads movement is being pushed
throughout every section of the coun-
try and that more interest is being
! taken in the building of permanent
highways than ever before. This
springs largely from the good work
that has been done by the national
association, aided by the press Of the
country, and few more years of such
concerted effort will show remark
able results.-Austin Tribune.
o.
A great deal is being said about the
split log drag for improving the roads.
1t may be a good thing, but If John
son county people would gravel the
roads with the gravel in the bed of
the creeks there would be no need
for the split log drag. It is getting
to be bad weather now and will be
for some time, and the roads will be
soggy and almost impossible this win
ter If something isn't done.-Godley
Banner.
To be sure the gravel from the
creek beds should be put on the
roads But to dump the gravel on
the ordinary black land highway is
to bid it goodbye forever It would
soon be literally out of sight" The
split log drag is valuable in road
building by reason OF its adaptability
in making the highways waterproof
Without good drainage there can not
be good roads. This drag draws the
dirt from the sides to the center and
leaves the road high in the middle.
The falling water rolls to each side,
like rain from a slanting roof The
split log drag is a useful implement
but IL must be used with intelligence
and frequency. Undoubtedly some
thing should be done, as the Banner
declares, but probably nothing will
be.-Dallas News.
THIS is MY 18th BIRTHDAY.