Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1899-12-02
.,e,dam or Gravel Winch.

Mr. HUE w. , ..,s, 49,,
' "' NAV be well aired. So a newspaper
~ ass;ou might as well be INDUCED III
u, assist the Lewiston property
.n.-s in coming to decision on the
inject Of improved streets
:, u;hbs believes we should teach by
annie a and then cody dislnisses the
.,ard lesson by saying THE case
~, tom Portland does not prove that
rsl is not good paving material
hsn properly applied IN quantities
EIeaua,e to the conditions" Those of
1ho have made any special study OF
...., and road construction, and who
:. in the business of engineering and
.,te our living by such work happen to
.reve as Mr.. Hibbs processes to believe
,h.t we should teach by example! We
that the roads in the vicinity of
4 ..,,.ud have not been constructed Ill
suv haphazard manner and that visitors
fine city and the surrounding country
have always spoken approvingly OF the
,,.s,s and roads there which have been
Constructed of gravel. The gravel has
zen well screened and has been deposit
lin LAYERS Of uniform thickness, sprink-
ID and rolled with heavy rollers. They
we're as we'll made as gravel roads can be
made They looked well and wore we'll.
Bu, it was found that they were fearfully
> ,pepsiye to maintain and that is where
the objection of the engineer CAME in.
BILE tries TO teach by example. AS stated
IN the article quoted last week in full in
The Teller, it was found that the section
live miles long which the commissioners
Of Multnomah county decided hereafter
Ia nave with the crushed boulders cost as
Snuch to maintain as twenty miles of the
other roads covered with crushed rock.
Hence we see that the place where gravel
has been used extensively is at last ADAM
ioning it as an economic measure.
Thereafter instead of screening the gravel
and putting ii III place the Doulders will
be crushed and screened.
He quotes Spokane. Riverside Avenue
was covered with crushed. rock. Mr..
llibbs says the crushed rock was removed
because the mud oozed up through the
rocks and the rocks settled down. He
stops there and leaves us to infer that
gravel was placed on the streets in place
Cf the crushed rock. But gravel was not
placed there. The crushed rock pave
ment was given up because Spokane had
emerged from the period wherein any old
thing dumped on the roadway was pre-
ierable to the original earth and had be-
come city demanding paved streets and
modern improvements. Riverside ave-
nue. left macadam behind and was paved
with asphalt Precisely as the main
streets of Lewiston will some day be
treated.
he says the best streets of Spokane arc
now paved with asphalt vitrifed brick
and gravel, not crushed rock. | venture
10 say the gravel it is used as it is else
where principally because the propert,
owners want the original improvement
made at as low cost as possible. But
lear me gravel is no more successful
there than here. In front of the Raw
Aiohd House the other day two travellin,
men were discussing the streets of Lew
SION and they said that after leavin.
riverside avenue there were no street
IN Spokane which were any improve
nieh' on the Lewiston streets. In tn
opoSesman-Review last week interview
WIN prominent business men wer
printed showing how the Spokane peopl
nePored the condition of their streets
.ne concurrence of opinion was tina
BUSINESS was being hurt by the poe
'''ee's' Changing the names OF tn
'uee's and the men the conversation
might easily apply to Lewiston or almo.
'Hy other town in the northwest.
Du' Mr. Hibbs works on one little ia,
""eh he believes he has discoyere
"""' mat we should teach by examp
4"a as There is hard foundation on O,
-'a'' street therefore we should II.
s'''el Does he forget, or does he IL
" mat Lewiston has been usir
s'a'e' Tor 'hirty-hve years? And VIII
10 show' That on a few blocks {
;. 10y" street there is beneath six to t,
~, aes Oh mud, hard bottom. This OF
~, e example. Mr.. Hibbs would do VT
on. : common school geography al
S. lie will be greatly surprised
r uu mat there are some six or sew,
Aiied cities in the United States ha
m wei ten thousand population. !
-. ~ una there are thousand of 9th
l,.;e :" Inc world having the same POI
=, n' vi the number of towns the s.
a. 'slS'on | have no data, neither a
mentioned in the geograpf
1919 Macadam, in a report to Parl
"eh'' advanced the reason against ,
" gravel which have in form
S advanced. that gravel ON accor
rounded shape was inferior
'eo rock, Subsequent Investigate
= engineers in every civilized and re
g country under the sun confirm
neory. 1t is now scientific ia
'iO0s last summer stated that