The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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THE ELCAMPO CITIZEN, SEPTEMBER 1, 1916
SUNSET
o Arrive Soon
Standard
and Tourist Sloo
2 Srains Daily •$
Between
New Orld
And
San Franc
Oil Burning Loco mo
Steel Coaches
Electric Block Signs
Heavy Rails
Rock Ballast
MATERIALS FOR A CULVERT
Endless Thresher Belts,
£ i '
Low Wheel Iron Trucks,
h - w.
Goodhue Windmills that need
no repairing, comparatively.
If Good Budding Stone Abound* in Lo-
cadty It Would Be Advisable to
Use This Substance.
DENOTES RIGHT CMC SPIRIT
(Br PAUL D. SARGENT, United State.
» Department 0t Public Roads)
Available material in the locality
-where the work Is being carried on
will generally determine the material
of which culverts will be constructed.
For example, If we are In a country
where good building stone abounds, it
would generally be advisable to use
this material for culverts.
If no stone Is handy, but good gravel
may be secured, plain concrete, or re-
enforced concrete, may be found to be
the most economical material. In
some localities we shall have to resort
to the use of pipes. My experience
has been that while a good culvert
may be constructed by the use of vit-
rified tile, its use in most cases has
been a failure. This is due to lack of
proper care In laying the pipe.
All culverts, of whatever material,
should be carried to a good foundation.
Generally speaking, I would recom-
mend that the waterways of stone
culverts be paved, and that concrete
culverts be built with a concrete floor,
although this Is not always necessary.
In any event the side walls should be
carried to a good, firm foundation, and
each end of the culvert should be pro-
vided with a cut-off wall carried below
the frost to prevent undermining by
the water.
Pipe culverts should be laid on a
good, firm foundation. If the natural
soil does not provide this, a found*-
tton should be excavated from twelve
to fifteen inches below the bottom of
the pipe and crushed stone or gravel
Should be placed In the excavation
and the culvert well bedded on this
foundation. A head wall should be
provided at each end of the pipe cul-
vert the same as for concrete or stone
culverts, to prevent the water from
getting under the culvert, or along the
side of It, and washing it out Cast
Iron water pipe and corrugated metal,
if of good, pure iron, will be found to
make satisfactory culverts where a
small opening is necessary.
All culverts should be laid on a
grade and, above all things, they
should be provided with a good out-
let to take the water away from them.
Sometimes this will necessitate the
Minneapolis Does Well in Honoring
the Memory of Public-Spirited Citi-
zen Who Deserved Wsil.
Over in Minneapolis the other day
they unveiled a monument to the mem-
ory of a man named Rowley. We
didn’t hear anything about it over this
way, but in Minneapolis it was Quite
an event. This man Rowley, you see,
was not a national character. He was
Just a plain citizen of Minneapolis. He
was the man who gave that city its
electric railway system. He was one
of the builders of that thriving com-
munity. be was one of the men with
the vision and the foresight, who
helped lay the foundation stones of
the metropolis of Minnesota. The peo-
ple Of Minneapolis are showing their
appreciation for his worth and his ster-
ling qualities. There are not very
many cities in the country where mon-
uments are unveiled to the memory of
street railway magnates. Usually they
are damned while they live and for-
gotten when they die. Other com-
munities might profit by the exam-
ple of Minneapolis. There such men
as Rowley and others bullded a city
for no other particular reason
that they wanted a city there. And,
as a city, It If not yet 50 years old, but
It has a population of S00,000 and if
growing every day. Minneapolis has
the right civic spirit and never dem-
onstrated It In a better way than by
erecting a monument to the memory
of one of its own good citizens.—Hu-
ron Timee-Hemld.
The Route of Safi
For Further Infi
Local i
ove Season Opens
eptember 1 st
i have on Hand our Fall
Stock of
Loaded Shells,
Largest in Town
Shot Guns and Rifles
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If yoa muni to i
If yea to
If yoa <w*nt to i
If yoa iwuii to n
If yoa **sm£ to t
If yoa 4Mmi to ;
If yoa writ to
if there is enyt
ART IN HOUSE TERRACING
tome Look at our GRIST MILL
for Grinding your Chicken Feed
Subject That Deserves Much Thought,
as It Will Make or Mar Appear^
ance of Home.
wmtthe
Terraces, particularly house ter-
races, which are all those upon small
grounds, belong to architecture, and
should therefore be kept closely in
connection with its kind. All house
terraces, those close about or parallel,
to buildings, belong to the structure «
adjacent and should be kept as cloee
up as possible. Terraces usually allow
for a liberal bed of plants next to the
buildings, then a path, a level apron
of equal or slightly greater width on
the outside of path, and then the ter-
race, if there be but one, drops down
into the fldld. If there be more than
one terrace each successive one as
they leave the building must be broad-
er than the one above, and thus they
drop by ever-easing and more gener-
ous extent to the field below. This
field does not mean a vast extent, but
what remains of the premises. The
mistake Is often made, and it is a
serious one, of building the terrace
broader than the field, a reversal of
art that is inveighed against by every
authority who has. written upon the
subject.
cpmpliBhed had I done this. You I orable conditions and despite this
would dimply have destroyed the | survived and made a select ear,
power which this inferior stalk this showa strong individuality
had of repropagating it's kind
LECT YOUR SEED NOW
FOR NEXT YEAR'S CROP
Die farmer who succeeds best
the one who looks ahead and
ikes some plans for the future,
gpfr is the time for you to be-
i to think about some seed se
!tion for next year’s crop and
t only think about it but put
nr thoughts into execution I
Ip in a fanners field this week
dhe asked me the question,
Phat o&akes so many stalks of
rn in my field which have no
non them?” Of course my
iy answer was poorly selected
ad* Now this 1 trouble goes
ck farther than this year’s
»p because of the effect of these
dm kind of stalks in past fields.
;>w the thing which should
we been done (and many far-
scf in Wharton County did this)
is to have gone through the
Id at tasseling time and detas-
§d all stalks which showed
pa of deformity or inferiority
•ny respect. I advocated this
Kfore tasseling time, but you
W what effect Jerald I have ae-
on the part of this ear. Do this
or an inferior one to say the least and you will have some better
of it. ,seeSd for next years planting.
Now if this has, or has not, j Ibis for a succession of years
been done you can make a great and you can insert characteris-
improvement hy selecting your t*c8 into your
______ which will
seed in the field this harvest make it a superior variety and
time. When you go harvest your will produce enough more to pay
corn place an extra box or barrel well sor all trouble,
about the wagon and when you Now you are saying “How am
come to a stalk' which has an 111° save this seed in orejer to
ideal ear on it throw it in the keep weevils from depredating
seed box. Now some things will on it* Place in a box of sufficient
have to be taken into considera- si^ to bold it and perfectly tight,
tion in selecting these ears- Do Put ^ top of the corn in a shal-
not select an ear simply because l°w recepticle, Carbon Bisulphide
it is large, but rather take into (High Life) at the rate of about
consideration its environments, one P^und per 100 bushels, cover
for instance a stalk might have °P tightly and leave for 24 hours,
grown a large ear because of hav- take out and let
For Better Housing of Aliena.
Prizes aggregating $2,100 have bees
offered by the National Americaniza-
tion committee in a contest for plains
for the housing of immigrants In in-
dustrial towns. Two groups of prizes
are offered. The first covers plans for
the housing of workmen In industrial
communities not exceeding a popula-
tion of 35,000. Entries may Include
designs for single family houses, com-
bined family and lodging bouses which’
will permit separation of the family
from the lodgers or boarding houses
or community dwellings for numbers
of single men or of single woman.
The first prise in this group is $1,000,
the second $500 and the third, fourth
and fifth $100 each. Competitors are
to assume that the community is a
new one produced by a new Industry
—most of the workmen to be needed
permanently and the rest, ms construc-
tion gangs, from two to five years only.
Welfare of the tenant and low cost
are the two important considerations
"urged by the committee. Wages of
the workmen are assumed to be from
$2 a day to $26 a week.
The second group of prises is of-
fered for a satisfactory substitute for
the derailed freight and cattle cars
now used to house construction gangs
on railways. In this group the first
prize is $206 and the second prize $106.
Concrete Road and Bridge in Connec-
ticut Park.
digging of a ditch from two to six or
seven hundred feet y long, but the ditch
must, be dug if necessary; the drain
is a failure unless we provide the
outlet
, All culverts should be covered with
a cushion of earth to prevent traffic
from coming directly on them. In the
case of stone or concrete culverts, six
or eight Inches under the macadam
or gravel surfacing will be sufficient
With pipe culverts there should not be
lees than twelve of eighteen inches,
and two feet of cover under surfacing
material, will be more satisfactory.
Always at
air. Should
there be eggs which might hatch
out later, watch closely and re-
peat the operation when neces-
sary-
I am Yours for service,
J. F. Bagwell,
Ag. Agt. U. S. Dept. Ag.
ROAD BUILDERS ISSUE A MAP
Tentative Routes of 100,000 Miles of
; Articulated Highway* in United
States Are 8hown.
' The .National Highways association,
that body of enthusiastic lookers into
the future, has prepared a map show-
ing the tentative routes of 106,006
miles of articulated highways which It
thinks should network the United
States In an orderly manner.
This map is the expression of one
of the main Ideas of the association,
namely, that trunk-line roads are the
first requisite—through routes leading
from somewhere to somewhere, and
that the feeder roads mu^t naturally
follow the development and Improve-
ment of these main lines. The theory
Is like that oh which the great railroad
systems of the country were built.
How a Builder Financed Operations.
A reader of the Home Builders’
page writes as follows in explaining
how he flnanoed his home building:
“First I ’caught’ my building site
and drew plans for house and barn to
fit it. Next I made application for a
loan to a co-operative bank, showed
the land and the plan to the lnvesment
committee and subscribed for the
requisite number of shares. The
agreed to let me have the money in in-
stallments at various stages.
“I then went to my bank of deposit
and borrowed money as 1 needed It, on
short-time notes, to pay cash as I want
along, where I could get 2 per cent off
for cash, and called on the co-opera-
tive bank for money whan I wanted to
pay the note*.
_ Tn that way I got a number of ad-
Yes, I am now ready to take care of your Rice in sacks
or in Bulk to best Advantage.
Highway Bond Issue.
About half the counties In the
United States have issued highway
bonds. The total amount of highway
bonds Issued by the counties aggre-
gates about $306,606,606, and the total
of all highway bonds, including the
bond* voted by the states as well as
the counties, amounted on the first of
the present yesr to not far from half
a billion dollars.
Can sell you New Rice Bags. Feed oi
k Garden and Field Seeds in Season
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Ballew, W. L. The El Campo Citizen (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1916, newspaper, September 1, 1916; El Campo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth893251/m1/2/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Advertising%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Wharton County Library.