So, How'd that Tuf Tread Work Out for Ya?

When last we spoke of State Road 51, the year was 1927, and S.R. 51, an unpaved road that caused many motorists to come to grief in the springtime, was about to receive a coating of Tuf Tread, which we can surmise was crushed gravel.

By the spring of 1928, motorists were again coming to grief on S.R. 51, and the Hobart News indignantly entitled an article, "Tuf Tread Roads Only a Waste of People's Money," and described the almost impassable condition of the Tuf Treaded road at times:

In this stretch of road [between Hobart and the Lincoln Highway] within a couple of miles there appear to be stretches of quicksand or springs underlying the roadway, where for perhaps fifty feet at a stretch the bottom seems to go out, leaving the road in very bad condition.

It would continue in that condition for several years more, and there would be much grief on S.R. 51.

Source: "Tuf Tread Roads Only a Waste of People's Money." Hobart News (Hobart, Ind.) 5 Apr. 1928.