Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-03-01
Consumption

But the best drag is made OF the split
log. Seasoned slippery elm is good, .
large red cedar post or the end OF 3
Sound telephone pole will do first rate
Do not make the drag too heavy. Ever
| II one pays for the stuff and hires the
drag made the cost is slight. Post
master Phelps, OF Centralia, Mo,
bought stuff in the country, hired II
hauled to town and hired a carpenter
to make them. They cost him seventy
five cents piece.
GAS road dragging Is carried on in
most localities there Is no charge,
Farmers look upon ID as a chore. The
drag is left near the gate and the
team Is hitched to 1t when needed.
Figuring from the basis Of the present
cost Of our earth roads the hiring Of
men to drag the roads would be a
minus quantity for not only will the
road be improved beyond measure
but the expense is cut in two more
then once. The present ayearge cost
per mile in Pottawattamine county,
Iowa, is $500. In Platte county, Mo.
it is from sl5 to SIT per mile. While
Sac county, Iowa, 10 1904, by the drag
method, maintained twenty-eight
miles In quarter stretch condition at
a cost Of 81 40 per mile. Everything,
even the cost Of the drags themselves
being charged against the roads, And
furthermore, the work done was so
satisfactory that the trotting horse
drivers Of the vicinity forsook the
track on the fair ground and used the
country road for speed way. Another
instance--A farmer near Richmond,
Mo-, dragged clay road for year
and by so doing converted his neigh
bors. But instead Of each man drag
| glng his portion of the highway they
agreed among themselves to employ
one man to do the work. This man
was paid atthe rate of three dollars
per day and kept account Of his time
himself The stretch Of road he was
TO drag was four and one.half miles in
length At the end of the wear he
presented his bill what do VIM spn.
pose was the amount? Kept his own
time. charged three dollars per day
and maintained the road so II was
like a race course for the most of the
year. His bill was s7.3o for the vsar.
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cents per mile for the year Is the
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before anvbody else began The break
came in this wav one dav n March
7 found merchant I,orse fanciar dr,v.
ing his colts ont 70 INV hair mile road
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