The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-06-15
SECURE GOOD ROADS
Proeiem Of Vital Impataaoe to
Farmer and Consumer.
Estt'natsd That Poor Highways In.
orsass Cost Of Living 10 Pr Gent
On Maoadam Road Team viii
Putt Three Times Amount.
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EBy W. C. PAINHRJ
GOOD roads mean q great deal not
only 70 the local community, but also
to the consumer oe the produotsi that
are raised there. II the roads are
pool the cost Of marketing VIII neoes.
sat1ty be Increased. It IL estimated
That the poor roads In this country
increase the cost Of living ten per
cent The average cost Of hauling
one ton. n mile on our common
earth.roads IL 2b cents. On European
roads 1t Is Q cents, while on the ran.
roads 1t 10 about threefourths Of a
cen At some seasons Of the year
the roads become impossible which
means that the products Of tho farm
cannot be marketed to the best adyan.
age They have to be marketed
when the roads are In condition rath-
er than when the price ,as right, The
question them becomes how to secure
these better roads.
In the first place It is important
that the road be a. level as possible,
as q grade increases the draft quite
rapidly. The railroads, by taking ad-
vantage of this fact, are enabled to
haul big loads. Their grades. as a
rule. DO not 60 above 3 per cent.
Some have adopted Q per cent. as
the maximum gradas 2 per cent.
means a rise Of two feet In q hun.
dred.
A team can exert pull on a short
distance Of one-half it, weight, but
for ordinary work the load It can
pull should not be over one-tenth the
weight OF the teams for instance, q
team weighing 5000 tpounds can exert
9 pull Of 300 poundss that is, when It
Is to continue the work for say ten
hours. While for a small stretch 1t
would be able to exert q pull Of 1900
pounds. This, however. s putting
forth all the enengy Of which they are
capable. It has been found that the
pull required to take a ton over the
ordinary roads L. 100 pounds. Sup
posing then that the load is one ton
and the wagon weighs 1900 pounds,
this would make q total Of $500
pounds, and at the rate OF 100 pounds
per ton would make a total Of 2e4
pounds. a little less than the team is
capable Of hauling. In fact it could
very nicely handle 1900 pounds more,
which would bring THE pull up to 800
pounds. and making the load $500
pounds. This. however. is for the
level. AS a$grade is approached this,
OF course. will be Increased. A s
per cent. grade would increase the
draft of the wagon and load of $500
pounds by >315 pounds, bringing 1t up
to 579 pounds. which Is almost twice
what the team can handle as a regu-
lar thing. If the grade is increased at
20 per cent. OF 30 feet in a hundred
feet the-draft on this same load would
come to a little over $500 pounds. or
the maximum that this team could
pull when exerting its utmost power.
Any grade beyond this would mea
that the load would have to be re-
duced. and In fact no team should be
required to have to pull to its maxi
mum capacity. From this then It Is
evident that increasing the grade in.
rease the draft very fast and henoe
grades should be eliminated as fur as
1t Is possible.
On the macadam road a team can
pull three times as much on the Level
az on the good earth road, but the in.
crease in draft up a grade remains
the same as On the earth road, 40
that a grade would be more ob1ec.
tionable on a macadam road than on
a poor road. On the level a 5000.
pound team could easily handle four.
tons, while the maximum grade that.
1t could pull up with such a load
would be a ten per cent. grade. and
even that is more than should be ex-
pected from the team.
There is a very marked tendency
in the west OF running roads on tha
section lines. This Is good where the
land is level. but where there are