The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-03-30


the public good and the promo
ton of road Improvement the land
over, the following instructions
in making good roads and fig
ures showing the great profit to
be gained by having good roads
at any price. The results are re-
ally amazing. lie says:
"There is more. to road-drag-
ging than standing on plank
and holding the reins over team
Of horses. The team should be
slow and steady; heavy enough
to haul the drag with ease, and
intelligent enough to take an in
terest in their work and to learn.
Such team will do better work
the longer they are used on the
drag.
'"The man should be of me-
chamical turn of mind and good
horseman. The management of
the team has more than little
to do with first class road drag
ging. The man, of course, should
be on the alert TO catch the fin
err points of the operation and to
correct the mistakes he is apt to
fall into at the start.
However able and attentive
the man, and no matter how pow
erful and willing the team, if the
drag is improperly built, if it is
mismanaged, the best work can
not be done. My patience is sore
ly tried by the atrocious cuts of
King drags that certain newspa-
pers publish. Two such came to
my table today causing me to
gnash my teeth ever since the
papers were unwrapped.
The so-called King drag, nam
ed by the road enthusiast of
Iowa, is no pet of mine.--it is the
fittest. / got fine results from the
two-slab King drag and then set
about its improvement. | built
six different styles that / can re-
member at this moment. Quite
likely built others which have
forgotten. My real pet" the
design which was to displace the
common form, and do away with
it entirely, is rotting by the fence
we never hitch to it. laiC
awake at night planning thu
pet and felt positive that i
would prove far superior to thu
old drag but the pet is a failure.
Build a light drag. One cal
do things with light drag tina
he cannot do with a heavy one
And then one can weight hgh
drag to make it heavy. But hoy
can he tighten heavy dragY D.
not build the drag too long. Els
pecially if your roadway is ratl
er narrow or runs between higI
banks.
Where the road is of prope
width the length of the dra
should be governed by the siz
of the team; a 7-foot drag to
s feet for a team of 1600-poun
horses. Nine feet viii be rattle
long for an uncared for roa
right at the beginning no matte
how light they may be.
Build your drag from ceda
post or the end of a telephon
pole, from 10 to IL inches in d
ameter, or some other light los
Use plank as last resort.
Split the post or log and Sc
ect the heaviest and soundest sls
for the front of the drag. Fin
point about 4 inches from til
end of the slab, the end that wi
travel in the center of the roat
and bore a Pinch anger hole q
right angles to the face of til
of the slab. Then % inches frol
the other end of the slab boz
another 2-inch hole in the san
manner. Now one-half way b
tween these two holes bore
third; getting the three in liz
with each other and directly
the center of the slab. The 9th
slab may now be brought up b
hind the first. Allow 6 inch,
between the ditch end of the re,
slab and the hole in the ditch Ell
of the front slab; mark and boz
the three holes. The ditch end
the front slab will thus, wht
they are pinned together, probe
some Is inches further towal
the ditch than the rear slab.
Now prepare the stakes
joint the slabs. ] prefer osas
hedge about 21a inches throug
If hedge is not convenient r
some pieces out of Pinch os
plank. Full 2 inches thick is su
ficient. Shave the ends and 81