The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-11-19

| factory as the preliminary conditions
indicate. the slag-asphalt or slag-taI
roads will realize the hope of the
scientists for both the utaliZation OF
by-prodncts and the attainment of a
dustless road One of these eX-
perimental stretches of road Is now
in course Of construction at Chicago.
under the supervision of Chief En-
gineer Vernon NJ. Peiree. of the Fed
eral Bureau, and one at Birmingham
Alabama. under the direction of Mr..
b. + Heidel. first assistant engineer.
The roads at Chicago will be of Stag
and asphalt that at Birmingham of
Stag and tar The greatest skill and
care will be used in putting down
these short stretches and they Will
! then be carefully observed during the
/ trying months of winter II in the
spring il has been established that
/ thir class of road remains firm. does
not rut. sheds water and makes but
! little dust. vast step forward will
| have been taken in road building,
and never-failling market will
have been created Tor blast furnace
waste.
Besides this activity in Stag ex-
periments. the public roads Office is
also busy at Newton. Massachusetts.
with a special asphalt preparation.
never before tried. which the dir
rector and his lieutenants hope may
prove effieacious as a dust binding
surface material
More unique than this. however,
the Office Is preparing at the same
place To lay stretch of what
facetious writers are almost certain
to label candy road. In all
flights of fancy 1t is probable that
nobody except scientist would go so.
far afield in reseaeh as to adopt mo-
lasses as a road building material.
bur that is exactly what has been
done here. and Assistant Chemist
Provost Hubbard of Director Pages
scientific corps is leYeling a half
mile stretch of road near Newton. and
in few days Will be in active super
vision of the laying of the first mo-
lasses road of history. This molasses
is the almost useless by-product of
the great cane sugar refineries of the
south. and the beet sugar refineries
of the west and southwest. II Is
sickishly sweet. nearly as black and
as thick as tar. and almost as power
full as a binder. Having always been
waste product, it can be bought at
a lower price than coal tar and in
greater quantities.
When the quantity aud the sticky
consistency OF this material WAS call
ed to tehattention of Director Page.
a number of months ago. he eoneeiy-
ed the idea that it might aid in soly-
Ing the always difficult problem of
dusty roads lie sent for a supply
for laboratory experiments and de-
tailed Mr.. Hubbard 10 conduct them.
The molasses was blended with oils
and limeWater. was mixed with rock
dust with earth and with sand and
tried OIL under heat and under
water. Il behaved so well and held
out such promises for ideal roads
| that the practical test o. a real road
was recently decided upon.
SlaS as the useless by-prodnet Of
+ the blast furnaces and 'molasses' as
the useless by-produet OF the sugar
/ retineries may in a few years reyo-
/ lutionize country road building. a
demand for more extended roads in
+ the states where those products are
most easily TO be had, and add mil
lions TO the wealth of the country by
i putting cash value on hitherto
waste material.
While experts are laboring with
these unique materials experiments
/ in east. south and middle west
| another scientists. also from the Of
| flee of public roads, Is engaged at
Independence. Kansas, in trying 10
| devise a method of constructing oil
ed roads analogous to the methods
which have produced the famous oil
ed roads of southern California. lie
is mixing heavy oils, possessing pro-
nouneed asphaltie bases with ma
tural soiland sand and eompaeting
the preparation SO formed with a
tamping roller. One stretch of this
peculiar class of highway will benn-
der construction within a few DAYS.
The oiled roads of California have