THE WAUPACA REPUBLICAN POST

June 29, 1916

 

WAUPACA TRAIL DAYS

 

Thirty Shovelers From City Join Farmington Men and Donate Road Work

 

            Wednesday and Thursday were Trail days for work between Farmington town hall and the river at the west, a distance of more than half a mile.  Thirty men from the city donated their work and twenty-two teams and drivers were furnished by the farmers of that neighborhood, and the result was that work was accomplished that would have cost $400 to do on contract or by hiring by the day. It is reported that on the way to the pit the Waupaca men drove their automobiles past some farmers and teams headed to the same pit.  A smile lit up the face of more than one farmer as he contemplated what fun he would have with those soft town folks.  On arriving at the pit, however, the smiles left the faces of the farmers who came to laugh at the men unused to work. It soon became a problem how a teamster might get into the pit and out again without having his wagon stuck in the gravel that was piled upon the wagons sometimes at the rate of a load a minute.  Mr. Sam Erickson estimated that the work done was worth nearly $400 to put some of the best hardpan gravel upon some of the worst road along the Yellowstone Trail through the town of Farmington.