Typed as spelled and written

Lena Stone Criswell

 

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT

Eighteenth year - Number 56

Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, December 4, 1907

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SPLIT LOG DOES THE WORK.

 

Stamford Utilizes It in Improving

Streets With Good Effect.

 

    Stamford, Texas, Nov. 28.--The split-log drag process was given a test on the streets of Stamford today and same was a very satisfactory one.  It was applied to a street about a half mile long, which was well nigh impassable, and two drags with the split-log made the street so that vehicles could pass over it without the least trouble and it is believed that the split-log drag will be a process which will greatly improve the roads of this section.  The county commissioners intend to make a thorough test of the process and have ordered a number of drags made, to be used on the public roads.  The soil of this section is of a nature that yields to pressure and if the tests made are satisfactory, the split-log drag will be put into general use throughout the county.

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