The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-03-20

good as since they began to drag h |
go there 10 speed my horses. II is as
smooth az a race track. | have many /
times driven over this two miles at
three minute clip" (This letter is dat.
cd November %, 1902. and after six |
months OF almost continuous rain)
Speaking of the same piece Of road,
Mr. 4. r. McNulty, Of Mound City. |
also under date Of November %, 1909, |
says:
"The roads between Digelow and
Mound City have been in far better
condition this summer, since the DRAG
ging. than ever before. ! have known
this road for thirty years. been in the
livery business for eleven years. mail
contractor for eight years, and 90
over the road four times a day"
David Rankin, the well known bo-
nanza corn grower OF TarkIo. Missouri,
writes az follows;
we have used the King road drag
good deal. and fnd 1t all right We
find Il best to use Il real soon after
rains and before tho roads get too
dry
Chas. Weber. OF Palmyra, Indiana,
writes 10 Prof w G Latta. OF Purdue
University. Indiana. as follows:
u heard Mr.. d. Ward King at Now
Albany last September wnen no spoke
on making good roads out Of dirt and
came home and tried on n quarter
OF mile OF clay mixed with rocks. fhis
road had been badly cut up by hauling
heavy logs. but put It into nice con
iition. have only dragged Il three
tines. but find | can go dry shod Owe
this read when the others are still
muddy and full OF puddles. The draf
slips over the stones II does not move
and fills In between them so as tt
make the road smooth. Alling the mid
die so tho water all runs of. SO far
this has taken about two hours wor'
and would not like to sell the i'm
proycmcnt for fifteen dollars II | had
10 80 back TO the old rougn road"
We could furnish any amount q
similar testimony not merely from
Missouri. but from Indiana, Ohio and
Iowa--all going 10 show that where
tho split log drag Is used intcliigently
there II no necessity whatvor for bad
roads at any season OF the yeat. For
example. tho following from Mr.. Hen.
ry Harlow. mayor OF the town Of On.
ava. and himself farmer:
about month ago received word
that the Northwestern railroad would
bring ID. Ward King TO our city. | had
heard MFR King at ST. Louis, and
when received the railroad poster
Immediately made n drag, building II
precisely as directed / finished II be
fore noon and put II to work at
o'clock ON a single block of our main
street. Tho soil Is gumbo and tho
street was almost impossible, beinc
hub-deop In soite places.
we put the drag right into the mud
and kept Il going. At 6 o'clock Just
four hours after beginning to use The
drag. wagons loaded with forty hun
dred (iOOO) pounds OF baled hay wer,
: being drawn over the block. and wcr,
making a scarcely perceptible nut Dd
that the drag will reyolutionizc the
p wheels again sank nearly 10 the hubs
In the mud.
Il had a good deal OF faith In IN,
1 drag from what had heard and read
- but I was not prepared for such az
: astonishing change as was made Ou
ncoplc are all Thoroughly convince,
. that the drag vii rcvoluuoulle N,
r method Of caring for earth roads"
. Again, Mr. 4. J. lily. Of Aluona
, Iowa. a drainaEe onrinoor and count!
surveyor OF Kossuth county, writes
n under date Of May z. 1905: Il hnv,
not hai time 10 Investigate as 10 m,
J.. number OF drags IN operation. but
' have helped make two. ! fnd place.
y IN my travels that have been touche,
, up, and YOU can toll the difference a
q soon as you strike the road"
q MT u, s. nrockaway OF Union coun
% ~. Iowa. writes. under date of May Z
1905; Il made road drag and work
n cd mile OF road. End it an that 4
claimed for II. In a twenty-eicht-mll
+ drive | find my one mile OF road m
, best excepting one mile, where IN
q grader had been used"
y Weller Robinson, OF wellman, Wash
3 ington county. Iowa, writes In May
: 1905, as follows: "After thinkln
g about 1t for two years or more | mad
n me a spiit iog DRAG. Ind have trie
n II on some pretty rough road II I
a strictly o. x. Beats. the grader out O
sight, ns made a mile and \ ouarte
e Of road nice and smooth in about tw