The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1917-03-23
POOR ROADS DEAR
Poor. Muddy Roads Make Hauling
Expensive.

Modern people no longer build
fires by the aboriginal process of
rubbing sticks or borrowing glow
ing GOALS from the neighbors fire.
places The evolution of science
in adoption of things and Circum-
stances to the needs OF men in the
main can be said to have reached
its highest stage of progress and
development in the last hundred
years.
Why is it, then, that i'll so simple
but important matter as good
roads, we are content to travel in
IL nineteenth century rut?
Political reformers make much
OF the burdens of taxation. Yet
our mud taN," that unruly pro
geny of poor roads, yearly pay i'll
tribute to our own neglect. Ii that
money was eNacted in tribute to
foreign power, OF assessed bv a
bureaucratic official don of our
land, indignation mass meeting
would be held in every farm hall.
hamlet, village and city i'll the land
before a week has passed. The
nation would rise in vigorous pro-
test and the outcome of it would
be done. Poor roads is the most
arbitrary dictator in the land of
freedom that abhors dictators,
nursing its power by a yoke of
iron on the community that toler-
ates it--and we accept this unnec-
cessary condition, shrug our shoul-
ders in indifference at the Cost and
continue to haul our products to
market over r,lts, bumps and thru
mud and bogs, while complaining
of the high cost of living, back
ward land values and community
depression.
There has been conducted a
thorough investigation of the cost
of poor roads in North Dakota.
Here is all authentic instance of
the finding: On hard road there
has been delivered Ii tons of grain
i'll one trip by one team, using
five wagons. On the mud roads
two tons was all that could be de-
livered by single team. On the
mud road the teams delivered six
tons day at a cost of $3.50 per
team and wagon or rs cents for the
haul. On the hard road 33 tons
we're delivering during the day.
The cost was $3.50 for the team
and wagons or cost of 1917 cents
a ton for the four mile haul. The
difference in this case was SIS cents
a ton in favor of good roads. There
were $50 tons to be delivered in
this particular instance and the
saving affected by the hard roads
figured OH the bases of the time
required was 1924.
How much is your Mud Tax"
Thursday, Mar. 8, was red
letter day OH the calendar of the
local NJ. w. A. camp. On the
evening of that day and during the
early morning hours of the follow
ing day nineteen members were
iniated into the order. The degree
team of the Sisseton camp came
over in seven automobiles-25 in
all-and gave the work. Right
here we might as we'll admit that it
is the general impression of the
victims, that the merry forresters
of Sisseton know their jobs and
perform them without Sinking.
A very nice lunch was served at
midnight and after few minutes
devoted to the purposes of rest and
refreshment, the work went on and
it was not until the cold gray dawn
of another day appeared that the
weary Woodnen plodded home
ward. just in time to build the
kitchen fire, and invent few lame
excuses for the edification of his
spouse, while trying to remembe +
the hailing sign OF a Royal Neigh