Hillsboro independent., October 27, 1905, Image 1

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HILLSBORO. WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCT. 27. 1003.
Number 24
fiillsboro Independent.
BY I). W. BATH.
OFFICIAL COUNTY I'APFR.
OMK DolXAK PICK YKAKIN ADVANCE
Republican in Politic.
Advcktimino Hatki: Duplay. CO cents
n inch, tingle column, (or four lner
tiom; reading u tti4, one cent s word
mIi Insertion (nothing: less than 15
cents) ; profcNiional crl, one Inch, (1
month ; bulge curd., $5 a year, paya
ble qimrterly, (notice! and resolutions
free to advertising lodges).
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
E. B. TONGUE
ATTORN EiY AT LAW
Hillsboro, Oriaon.
Office: Rooms 3. 4 and I, Morgan Blk
W. N. BARRETT
ATTORNEY-AT LAW
Hlllsboro, Oregon.
Office: Central Block. Rooms and 7
BENTON BOWMAN
ATTORNKY-AT LAW
Hlllaboro, Oregon.
Office, In I'niou Blk.. with H. B. HuMon
TIIOS. II. TONGUE JR.
ATTOKNEY-AT-LAW
NOTARY PUBLIC
Jifioe :
Kotiiua 4, 4 and 5, Morgan Block
Htllaboro, Oregon.
8. T. LINKLATER, M. B. C. M.
rilYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Hlllaboro, Oregon.
Office, ujmtairi, over The Delta Drug
Store. Office houra 8 t 12; 1 to 6, and
In the evening from 7 to 0 o'clock.
J. P. TAMIESIE, M. D.
8. P. R. R. SURGEON
Hlllaboro, Oregon.
Rralience eorniT Third anil Main; office op
lam over Delia ilruK tore; hour, . 80 to 12 m.
I to A ami 7 t p. m. Telephone lo reudent
from IwlUilriiR More. All call promptly ana
wared day or ulxbl.
F. A. BAILEY, M. D.
rilYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Hlllaboro, Oregon.
Office: Morgan-Bailey block, up
"etaira, room 12, 13 and 15. Residence
8. W. cor.- Base Lift and cond eta.
Both 'phones.
F. J. BAILEY, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Hlllaboro, Oregon.
Office: " Morgan Ilailey block, op
talrs with F. A. Bailey. Residence.
N. E. corner Third and Oak sts.
Spreading; the
of
jospe
lood Roads
portion of the year. ThU convic
tion is almost universal among far
mers who have really wrestled
with the road problem and know
from experience its difficulties.
However this 'ate of doubt and
discouragement did not long con
tinue, and I began to investigate
and experiment in an irregular sort
of a way. Acting under this per
sistent impulse to experiment, I
the fact that it was almost a hard
piece of earthenware. Clearly this
was because the wallowing of the
hogs bad mixed or "puddled" the
earth and the water together, form
ing a kind of cement which dried
into a bard and practically water
proof surface.
The next important lesson in my
understanding of the real elements
of road-making was taught me by
READ IT ALL AND ACT NOW
How the Apostle of the Split-Log
Drag is Revolutionizing the
Road-Mending of America.
A. 13. BAILEY, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Hillslioro, Oregon.
Olnc over Bat Iry'a Drue Store. Offlr houra
from H..M to W; l:ouioo, aim v to . neainmira
third houw north or but elwino mkiii piani.
Calla promptly attended Oar or uliitit. Both
'phonaa. leuta-tH
MARK 11. BUMP,
ATTORNKY-AT-LAW.
Notary Public and Collections.
HILLSUOKO, ORE.
Tree Delivery
Of the ;lest Fish, Game and
Meats. Our delivery is prompt
and in all'parts of Hillsboro.
We have inaugerated a
new Schedule in Prices
and this together with our de
livery system makes this Hills
boro' s popular market.
Housley & Hoover.
Announcemente
Having purchased the Central
Meat Market, we wish to announce
to former patrons and the public,
that we have established a free de
livery and have reduced the prices
on all meats. For the best cuts
and best service possible we res
pectfully solicit your patronage.
EMiMOTT BROS.
Glasses Fitted While Yon Walt.
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We are in our office over the City Bak
ery six days in the week doing Optical
work, giving the best of satisfaction.
0.1 use fitted while you wait and the
work guaranteed. We have also added
rhunologicat science and will give you a
writing a goo I as any city in the Weet.
We have had many years experience in
this srienre, being a student of Fowler
A Wells Co., New York. We are also
healing the sick with our Druglesa
Method. Alt of our work is guaranteed.
Uive us a call and be convinced.
1r. A. C. KATOX.
The Saturday Evening Post of
some time ago published nn illus
trated article on road building and
keeping roads in repair, giving Mr
King s and other men s experience
for four years, and the result is sue
CESS.
We do not desire discussiou.'but
action, and the object iu writing
these few lines is to introduce the
improved road drag, as published
below, and urge immediate action
AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME, as NOW
is the time to prevent the small
ruts and holes, and the large
ruts and holes will never come.
Let everyone study the article
and act, and see to it that "THE
ROAD FROM YOUR FRONT GATE TO
YOUR NKAaEST NEIGHBOR'S FRONT
GATE TOWAKD Town is dragged as
shown in the illustrated article fol
owing, at least once a week for
the next three or lour months.
I am completely convinced that
we can nave good roads by this
method, and it will be a reduction
of 30 per cent in the cost of our
present plan of making roads.
I would suggest shoeing the low
er edge of each timber, say with an
old wagon tire with the worn side
gainst the lower edge and front of
each umber, as hr wood will wear
rapidly and the scraping edges of
drag would become dull and
do the scraping so well after
the edges have become worn, and
would not fill up the small ruts and
low places, which are the beginning
of a bad road.
Now, we must not expect to have
a good road at once, but we must
persist and keep dragging and
scraping a little dirt toward
tub center of our roads, begin
ning with the first fall rains, and
keep the road rounded and smooth
and the ditches open at the ends.
There are but a very few places
that require planking or cross-log
ging, such for instance as boggy,
low places, that overflow. Let us
begin NOW to drag our roads, and
remember that the small depres
sions or low places that are hardly
perceptible now, become the great
mudholes next spring.
The county court will no doubt
make an appropriation to keep four
drags at work, but let us show our
good will and do something our
selves. "Drag the road from our
own front gate to our neighbor's
front gate toward town and the
road problem is solved.
J. P. Tamiksib.
Hillsboro, Oct. 21, 1903.
There is something startling in
the statement that a drag made of a
split log and costing only the price
of a pocket knife is the implement
that is going to revolutionize the
wagon roads of this country and
save runny millions of dollars to the
rural population of the United
States yet I make this statement
and put upon it all the emphasis ol
which I am capable.
"Downright absurd!" do you ex
claim? I have had hundreds of
farmers greet with jeers a less
sweeping statement of the case
and then go home and prove to
themselves its absolute correctness.
Have you any idea of what it
would mean to the people of the
United States to change the bad
roads of the country into good
roads? Such a revolution in trans
portation would climb so high into
figure that the sum total would be
absolutely startling and almost be
yond comprehension. Not very
long after I had made the first de
monstration of the split-log method
of road-making on my farm in Mis
souri, Col G. W. Waters, secretary
of the Missouri Good Roads Asso
ciation, said to me:
"II the road commissioners of the
State of Missouri could stand here
and see what I see, the result would
be worth a hundred thousand dol
lars a year to the commonwealth!"
It is impossible to express iu fig
ures even the most general estimate
of the value of such a revolution in
road-making as must result from
the general use of this new and
"absurdly simple" method. How
ever, it is well to keep in mind the
fact that in almost all states the
mileage of common dirt roads is
many times double that of the ma
cadamized or other expensive roads
intended to be permanent.
Iu a state so long rettled, so pro
gressive and prosperous as Ohio,
for example, more than fifty per
cent of the roads are of earth, and
the interest shown by Massachu
setts, Pennsylvania, New York
and other Eastern states in the
work of the split-log drag indicates
that the dirt roads of these com
monwealths still constitute a very
important and perplexing element
in the problem of transportation by
team. Fully ninety-nine per cent
of the highways of Missouri and
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one day hitched my team to a drag
made of a frost-spoiled wooden
pump stock and an old oak post,
held parallel to each other by three
pieces of fence boards about three
feet long. Smooth wire served in
place of a chain, and a strip of
plank laid between the post and
the pump stock gave me a rough
platform upon which to stand.
The horses were attached at
such a point of the wire as to give
the drag a slant of about forty-five
degrees in the direction required to
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Rear View of the Split-Log Drag.
Iowa are earth roads, and a state
official of Iowa once said to me that
to have fifteen per cent of the main
traveled roads of his state macada
mized would be to realize the most
ambitious dreams of those men of
the state especially interested in
improving the condition of its
highways.
So much by the way of suggest
ing the size of the problem which
the split-log drag has come to solve.
What has already been accomplished
so far as the spread of the move
ment is concerned, may be put in a
lew words: It has been backed by
the Missouri Board of Agriculture:
one railroad, the Northwestern, has
sent out a "Good Roads Special"
for the purpose of evangelizing the
farmers of its territory ; other roads
are eager to install the same kind
of a broad-gauge, public spirited
campaign; thousands of miles of
wagon roads have been permanent
ly reclaimed from bad to good, and
hundreds of meetings have been
held in the nine states in which
this gospel has been disseminated
by means of practical demonstral
tion. All these meetings thou'
ands of persons have pledged them
selves to make and use a split-log
drag; hundreds of newspapers have
taken up this movement, giving it
generous space and a square deal;
hundreds, if not thousands, of dol-
ars have been raised and offered in
prizes for the best miles or half
miles of drag roads, and most im
portant of all, perhaps, the public
sentiment of scores of the commu
nities have been stirred to self-respecting
hopefullness and energy
by this new gospel of good roads
without money."
Eight years ago I was devoting
lmost my entire time to my farm.
three miles north of the little town
of Maitland, Missouri. My inter
ests demanded frequent travel over
the road between the farmhouse and
the village and I always felt a keen
resentment when bad roads made
it difficult or impossible to drive to
town a state of things that was al
together too frequent.
A little investigation and experi
ence demonstrated to me that this
was by no means the result of in-
ifference or inactivity on the part
of our road commissioners. Then
reached the conviction that it
was the fate of the farmer to spend
1500 to 3000 a mile for macada
mized road or else travel in all per
iods of continued wet weather
which is to say a very larce rro-
force the earth that it would gatlr
er from the side of the road up in
to the centre. We had just had a
soaking rain and the earth was in
a plastic condition. I had driven
the drag but a few rods when I
was fully aware that it was serving
at least the initial purpose for whrch
it was intended that of leveling
down the wheel rut and pushing
the surplus dirt into the centre of
the road.
At my neighbor's gate, toward
town, I turned around and took
the other side of the road back to
my home. The result was simply
astonishing. More rain fell upon
this road, but it "ran off like water
from a duck's back." From that
time forward, after every rain or
wet spell, I dragged the half-mile
of the road covered by my original
experiment.
At the end of three months the
road was better than when it bad
deen dragged for three weeks, and
at the end of three years it was
immensely improved over its condi
tion at the end of the first year's
work. I studied the result of each
step in my experiment and finally
learned that three elements are re
quired to make a perfect earth road
and that the lack of any one of
them is fatal to the result. To be
perfect an earth road must be at
one and the same time oval, hard
and smooth. All of these indis
pensable are acquired by the use of
the split-log drag in any soil that I
have ever come in contact with
and I worked in the various kinds
of clay soil, in the gumbo of the
swampy lowlands and in the black
mud of the prairies.
Observation of my experiment
taught me that two weeks of rain
would not put this bit of road in
bad condition at a time when the
highway at either end of it was im
passable for a wagon. Of course,
it was plain that the reason the
road was not bad was that there
was no mud in it. But why mud
would not collect in it was not
clear to me until I was taught my
lesson by the very humble means
of the hog wallow. One day I
chanced to notice that water was
standing in one of these wallows
long after the ground all about it
had become dry. Probably I had
many times before observed this
fact, but not until now had it oc
curred to me to inquire into its
cause. Examining the edges of
the wallow, I was impressed with
studying what we farmers call "a
spouty spot" in the side of a clay
hill. All who live in a clay coun
try know the unspeakable sticki
ness of these spouty places, and are
familiar with the fact that, alter ten
days or
two weeks of bright hot
sunshine, you can take an axe and
break from one of these snots a clod lv AarV and
SO hard that With it VOU Can almost him tn mnm than Ihf trptipral
drive a ten-penny nail into a pine 'outline of the road over which he
plain, is not generally followed as a
fashionable philanthropy or a popu
lar diversion.
Gradually, however, this little
stretch of dragged road began to
force the attention of the communi
ty. rrom one source and another
I began to hear of the observations
which it provoked and some of
them were quite as amusing as they
were agreeable. One day a physi
cian of a neighboring town told me
this story:
1 was driving down your way
the other night to see a patient.
As usual, when I have anything on
my mind, my eyes were fixed on
the dashboard of the buggy, and I
was deep in study over an especially
perplexing case. ou know how
rough all the roads have been,
lately to ride over them is
simply to be jolted from one side
of the buggy to the other unless
you let your horse go at a walk
which a physician cannot always
do. Well 1 was threshing along
over the clods at a trot, when' sud
denly I straightened up, aroused by
the impression that something had
gone wrong with the running-gear
of the buggy. But the trouble was
with the roadl 1 had simply struck
your little stretch of draggd road,
and the buggy skimmed over it as
smoothly as a sleigh runs over
packed snow.
That accident was decidedly
agreeable to me, but not more so
than the one that came to my ears a
little earlier w hen I chanced to hear
the experience of Mr. H. W. Mont
gomery, a banker of Skidmore, a
town tour miles north of my place.
With his wife he was one night
driving down to a little gathering at
Maitland. The uight was decided-
it was impossible tor
piann. .Naturally, it occurred to
me that, if this puddled clay soil
would stay hard for three months
when left in a rough condition, it
would surely stay longer if mould
ed into the form of a smooth roof,
so that the water which fell upon it
would easily run off.
This oririnal half-mile of road
was driving. Suddenly the lurch
ing of the buggy ceased and the
banker startled bis wife with the ab
ruptness of his exclamation:
"What's happened to this road?
There has been something doing
here! I'm coming back in the day
time to see what has been going on."
He had struck the half mile of
was dragged steadily for four years ' dragged road, and, being a highway
ferred to a certain strip of road,
which had "experienced the magic
iuflucuce of the drag."
If there is a means of studying hu
man nature more interesting than
that of trying to teach a community
a new method of road-making, I
have yet to find it. As I have said,
for four years I dragged a strip of
road from my, front gate to that of
my neighbor. He bad always been
a good ueighbor, having the best
interests of the community at heart,
but he was not easily enticed out
of settled opinions or into new ways
of doing things, and consequently, I
refrained from saying anything to
him upou the subject of road-mak
ing, relying upon the evidence
presented to his own senses to
awaken his interest in putting the
road between his house and the
next ueighbor ou the way toward
town in the same condition as the
road between his house aud mine.
Finally, however, he made him-
sell a drag, and started to push for
ward the good work. From others
I knew that he had been a doubter
at the outset, but within two weeks
he was a dragged-road euthusiast
and came to tue in a state of con
siderable excitement, not to say in
dignation, because the neighbor
next beyond him was not willing at
once to take up the work and begin
the dragging of the road on toward
the village. When my neighbor
voiced his impatience and intimated
that something ought to be done to
push the thing right through with
out delay, I simply shook my head
and asked the question:
"Do you know how long I have
been dragging the road up to your
gate?
"vVhy, I guess it must be about
four years," said he.
"Yes." I answered and all that
time I haven't said a word to you
urging you to take up the work.
Now the same thing that convinced
you will convince the neighbor be
yond you. We'll just let him take
his time to come to the conclusion
that he can't afford to travel over a
bad road to town when a few min
utes' work will give him a good one
over which to ride." Later experi
ence showed me that this matter of
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Demonstration in front of Secretary Shaw's Home.
before I had a single active recruit
in my new crusade. At first my
neighbors poked good-natured fun
at me, probably because 'the thing
was so new and absurdly simple
and perhaps, also, because I did
the work without any pay or any
expectation of it. Road making in
the country, it may be well to ex-
commissioner and interested in the
public roads, he had at once sensed
the change.
Of those early recognitions none
gave me greater pleasure than to re
ceive a letter from Congressman De
Arnold saying: "I can determine
almost to an inch where the drag be
gan." And later in the note he re-
road-dragging is contagious and
catches best where the work itself is
left to spread the conviction of its
own soundness. As one neighbor
alter another fell into line, and the
stretch of dragged road continued to
lengthen, and the public comment
Continued on 4th Page.
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