The Gospel of Good Roads; A Letter to the American Farmer epub

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The Gospel of Good Roads; A Letter to the American Farmer epub

The Gospel of Good Roads; A Letter to the American Farmer. Isaac B Potter

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Author: Isaac B Potter
Number of Pages: 26 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781231079621
Download Link: The Gospel of Good Roads; A Letter to the American Farmer
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...road, and just as street cars are now drawn in the cities. The ordinary street car, drawn by two horses, weighs 5,000 pounds; the open car used in summer will seat fifty passengers, weighing 7,000 pounds; total, 12, coo pounds, or 6 net tons, and this load is drawn by a team at the rate of 6 miles an hour without difficulty. The wheels of your wagon are made round and true; they turn upon axles as smooth and well lubricated as those of a car; your horses are as good as those employed in the street car service, and you have every facility for moving large loads quickly and cheaply, except the single requirement of a good road. Of course I do not intend to argue that wagon loads can be hauled upon a high-class road as cheaply as upon the steel railroad track, but I have shown you enough to convince you that the ordinary dirt road is in no way fitted for your business and that a wonderful contrast exists between such a road and the well-made highways of other countries. Another thing which your engineer will teach you is that work to be done cheaply must be done in a systematic way; that the cheapest way to care for a road and to keep it in repair is to place it in charge of some person who will beheld responsible for its condition throughout the entire year. In your township the roads are mended or "worked " once, or at the most twice a year, and for the balance of the season are neglected. Even when the warm weather of spring has dried up a considerable portion of the road so as to make it fairly passable, great mud holes are found here and there in which the farmers frequently become stuck with heavy loads, causing no end of delay and trouble. Here is a picture taken on one of the busiest farm roads in this country, showing just the kind of mud hol...

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