Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-03-01
noN. D. wAnp kINa.s AppRnss.

lSome months ago / was invited 10 ad
ldress an Ohio audience on the subieci
Of .sRoads Without Money ), / went
| TO my fappointroept with fear aud
trembling. for wondered n I had .
message for Ohio. Ohio. with her nm.
limited quantities OF stone and gravel
and great wealth. To NV SUNRISE !
found her best posted citIzens ready 10
admit that more then one.half Of
lOhio,s public roads we're without
broken stone or gravel / am told
that PENNSYLVANIA and New york are
lin like circumstances In VIRGINIA
West Virginia and the whole south.
east comparatively little has 5been
done to suyface the yoads In GRAND
lold Mjssonri 4 recent canvass ~ the
state. county by county showed
ninetg.r,ine ana one .half m mr. roads
to be az tre native soil And t,oubt
liz the south and southwest would show
different figures Road conditions arc
worse in Texas Mjsslsslppi and the
other southern states than in the
north. because Jack FROST gives MS
northerners hard road norton Of the
wear. Southern reads are IN most des.
perate condition AZ n time when our
roads are sealed with ice ar covered
with snow | am reminding Won of
these facts II, order that van NAV oct
some idea of the immens,tv m this
question. boping Ia convey some com
ception az the stupendnous nronor.
tIons our national mud road problem
uThe three prominent features Of
the spllt loo drap scheme are its EN-.
Cheney. its sImulieity and IT'S cheap-
ness Taken in connection with the
marvellous changes claimed n he
wrought by the process the simplieity
Of the plan makes IL seem absurb And
vet simplicity should be no bay What
can be more simply than the princIple
on which the telephope ia basedp
Merely the making and breaking max.
ing and breaking again and again Of
an electric current. How simnle are
the two acts which have made the
name of Columbus famous-the stand
ing of an egg ON end. How easy And
the discovery Of America-he had hut
TO sail west and the thing was done
n be had tried be could have hardly
missed America.
tsThe simple, oheap Missouri snlit
LOG drag solves the problem, In Mis-
souri, we have demonstrated our ahiI-
ity to build and maintain ordinary
earth roads with yery little exnense
One spring day in the year of 1saa I
,,,,ohaa .a s,aas - -
.o,so,h,an 1,,~a 49, - ~ -
49, s,aa,s,.,.as.s - 5s.. ..
800 to,na !, S,s ,a,,.,,,ls,s !, ,a.a ~
! drova .,,th ~ nasso !, ~ -. $50
ooc, s,ao - ~ IL. 80 - 10,
tha drsa sollow,ra a. a. ano," -
ahont ,ortv. Az darrass m saaa ~
l,oa,, h.d,r III. 81 =. .~...s, - s,.-s. s.s, 80.
sno,I ~ -. ,.aa.t,s ~ = s.n, 49,. ss
H. mn $500, az "@s ,sss
INC rone,, ro.d hsr,sa se,ar ~ ,, as,.ss u
- ~ - ~ 49, -. , .s.ss.s.s s 49, s.S sesS
"a d,rt s,oa. ~ ~ 49,, ra.s 80 ~ ~ .oo's
,,os,,ad ittr 49, 80 80 "a os,sas go ~
-
'arasr c,nds "a s,,~,,,,'s ds.t -. -
ia o,eas go - ~ Lar ss y" ~.
,ighwau anS Ia. ,,,ora w,,a
-aechad 40 ,.ort aste
srrra hon,o arsr ~ .sa So ~ - ~. p
tb,s one-at,on smoo,hoa [ tha roo5
,rd ,sa,,.s a,,a,, ool.e ..o'.-. W. ., ,oaa :.
he center. =
uThe road was halter AZ once A fter
The nexf rain reneated the oneration |
and have done SO with few exeeptlonsl
after every rain or TO the present |
time. The road continued to improve |
and became locally famous, because it
never got very bad and because 1t dried |
and became in fine condition SO quick
ly after rain had ceased. The wonderful
wrought by this simple |
was brought to the notice
Of Secretary Ellis, of the Missouri state |
board of agriculture, whoinvestigated |
thOrOuUhlv and then arranpnd with /