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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1910
Page
3
Washington Letter surveys rising insurgency within parties, the shift of leadership, and the coming realignment of principles as the 1910s political landscape changes. It notes Mayor Gaynor as a potential factor, discusses imports of luxury goods, and profiles J K Hillers, a Civil War veteran turned prominent war photographic artist.
The piece notes a surge in highway building across eastern and southern states, driven by automobilists and farmers. Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Georgia are highlighted for new road measures and funding to raise local standards and boost commerce and mobility.
In Leon County a road plan mixes six inches of sawdust with earth to form a bed between two ridges, using a road machine then a smaller mixer. Contractor G H Averitt reports costs at 297 dollars per mile, claiming it to be the cheapest road material. The True Democrat counters durability fears by citing two roads in south Georgia from twenty years ago still sound. Leon County soil is noted as clayey.
A historical opinion piece argues bad roads burden farmers by increasing transport costs. It explains that a team and driver cost about $3.00 daily, delivering 100 bushels of corn on good roads costs 3 cents per bushel, but with poor roads only 50 bushels can be delivered and costs double. It notes the impact on crop hauling and on fertilizer value depends on essential soil elements.
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