As you can see in the background Coon Rapids is in some fairly hilly country that can have less than ideal roads after a rain. Marilyn’s granddad was born and raised in that area and so was her dad. My guess is this tractor was intended more for going through mud than snow though it would see some use in snow too. Another guess is this tractor was the bad weather means of transportation only. A car might have been used during dry times. The county or township probably didn’t gravel and maintain roads as well during the war years so that made the mud situation worse especially in those hills. The cab kept the mail and the driver dry. Back in those days the volume of mail per household was much less but on the other side of the coin every mile had two or three or more mailboxes. Coon rapids is on the southern end of a very large German Catholic area so the population was high for a rural area. I’m sure there was more than one hoghouse housing a still in that area during prohibition. It would be interesting to know how many miles that tractor covered every day. With a large rural population I wonder how many mail routes came out of Coon Rapids, a town of less than 1000 people I’m guessing.
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