From Mules to Mixers

This is a newspaper article that was published in the 1970s. It tells the story of Peter L. Ferry's work mules. The article states:

"Concrete paving in Peter Ferry's day involved a bit of attention to logistics. He had to walk 400 sometimes stubborn motor-less grader mules to the job site, build them a corral, supply their food and water, and maintain a tent village for his employees until his job was finished. "I carried water and lead some of the mules to the job site," Bill Ferry remembers. Now that's learning the business from the bottom up.

This is the full article.

Here we see Peter L. Ferry (on right) in 1924 with his team of mules grading the Wilshire Fairfax Tract in Los Angeles.