Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1919 — LOADS AT END OF GOOD ROAD [ARTICLE]

LOADS AT END OF GOOD ROAD

Double Amount of Team Power Required to Haul Wagons Over Unimproved Country Highway. To see what happens at the end of the good road, a public road specialist of the department Of agriculture recently had observations made tn different sections of the country. Observers noted many country-bound teamsters who drove two loaded wagons, bitched one behind- the other, to the edd of the good road, where they left one wagon by the roadside to be returned for later while all the power of their teams wo devoted to hauitnga rtugie wagon over the unimproved highway. Farmers bound for market frequently were seen to haul wood and similar products to the beginning of the good road, there dumping them and returnlag for a second load. When this arrived, the two loads were consolidated and easily hauled by a single team the remaining distance to market over the Improved road.