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roads is in the counties of St. Louis, Jackson and Jasper. If to 

 these we add Pike, St. Charles, Lincoln, Franklin, Jefferson, St. 

 Francois, Gasconade, Cole, Cape Girardeau, Buchanan, Greene, 

 Lawrence, Boone, Moniteau, Marion and Pettis, we have almost 

 covered the mileage of permanent roads. The rest, made prin- 

 cipally by special districts, are scattered over the State from one 

 to ten miles in a place. 



The road drag is used quite generally throughout the State. 

 Here and there will be found a community, a district or a town- 

 ship which has the dragging work well organized and systematized. 

 Fifty per cent of the road mileage of the State is adapatable to 

 the use of the drag, the best maintenance tool known for earth 

 roads. This is especially true in the great rich lands of western, 

 central and northern Missouri. Hard surfacing material is scarce 

 in parts of the north, north central and northwest portions of the 

 State, but in many of these parts paving brick material is found. 

 Gravel and crushed limestone roads are built generally throughout 

 the State and in addition: in the southwest, flint boulders, mining 

 chats and chert are used; in the central southeastern part, mining 

 chats and decomposed granite; in the southeast, decomposed lime- 

 stone and sand gumbo. Oil is used on the roads in Jasper, Jack- 

 son and St. Louis counties. 



One of the well-dragged roads of Salisbury township, SaUsbury, Mo. 



