Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-12-07
Asphalt Used In Place of Macadasn
on New Jersey Highways.

Asphalt Used In Place of Macadasn
New Jersey Highways.
If the experiments to be conducted |
by State Road Commissioner E. c. |
Hutchinson of New Jersey turn out |
successfully, as he predicts they will
the day of the dustless country road is
at hand, and automobiling will be
given boom in New Jersey surpass-
ing even that which its unexcelled
macadam road system has given it,
says a dispatch from Trenton, n. ].
Commissioner Hutchinson will during
the summer experiment with the use
of asphalt instead of macadam for
building country roads. The roads
built of this material in the rural dis
tricts will not be like the smooth sur
faced street pavement of the city
streets. but viii resemble the macadam
roads in that they will have small
broken stones for their principal COM
ponent, and these will be bound solidly
together by asphalt. This will present
a hard surface from which there will
be no wearing Of small particles to be
whirled in clouds Of dust in the faces
of travellers and in the homes of Dor
dering residents.
Commissioner Hutchinsons expert
ments have attracted the attention OF
road builders all over the United
States, who are watching the result
with the deepest interest. Mr.. Hutch
inson asserts that the asphalt country
road will cost no more than the mac
adam. and that its wearing qualities
will surpass those of the material at
present commonly used.
Within the last few months Commits
sioner Hutchinson has been bobbing up
most unexpectedly at the scenes OF
! new road operations in different parts
Of the state This Is the result of the
recent acquisition by his department
of an automobile, which enables the
! commissioner to keep his eye on new
road work much more readily than he
! could before. Contractors and inspect
ors receive no notice of the commits
. sioner's approach, and consequently
I. any shortcomings of which they may
be guilty IN the construction arr
9 quickly exposed to the gaze Of the Off
:, cial who has the say in the distribu
:, ton of the states road appropriations
:, In several counties COMMISSIONS
- Hutchinson has pounced down upol
- derelict contractors and inspectors, ant
:, he has not hesitated to call the atten
. ton of boards of freeholders to tn
- conditions that he found. and in som
= instances he has exercised his authorit
:, of Withholding the states money unit
70 the work was properly done.
- Commissioner Hutchinson is at pres
9 ent paying particular attention to az
N plications presented to him for neN
~ roads. He insists that only the mos
N travelled roads be improved. and In thi
y. way instead of building roads that wi
to benefit only a small section he is az
ct complishing the joining of the chain
80 macadam roads crossing the state
II all directions. This encourages aut'
no MODELLING, and in consequence the stat
co treasury is enriched the more by I'll
q increase of the receipts of its aut
mobile department. The day of I'll
" narrow macadam road. ten and lively
nd feet in width. has passed, and Cor
I'll missioner Hutchinson now enforce
.1v strictly the rule that he laid dow
when he entered upon his office-th
of no road less than sixteen feet in wild
re be built in New Jersey.