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vS~ Pioneer _fsto7ry of SanderA County
stacked in huge piles to season, and afterwards put
up in bundles of 1,000, and in due time hauled to
market. One of the big ox-wagons used for hauling
them usually carried about 25,000 shingles, and in
San Antonio they brought about $4.50 per thousand.
A good shingle maker could make a thousand shingles
per day. Mr. Mazurek says Joe Kindla and Amasa
Clark were the best and fastest he ever knew. The
road to San Antonio was very bad, especially at the
point known as the "Slide-off," and it was so called
from the fact that in crossing that hill the load would
often slide off the wagon. To prevent this, a big
piece of cypress timber, called the binding pole, had
to be placed across the load to keep it in place, and
even then there was danger of the wagon turning
over. The wagons in use then were home-made and
constructed of elm and cypress timber, the wheels
being solid wooden slabs or cross pieces of wood.
Thousands of shingles were manufactured here, one
tree yielding as high as 30,000 shingles.
Mr. Mazurek still has in his possession a cross-cut
saw which his father purchased from Davenport
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Hunter, J. Marvin. Pioneer history of Bandera County : seventy-five years of intrepid history, book, 1922; Bandera, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth27720/m1/82/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .