Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1909-01-14
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Furnace Stag and Candy Roads
The Latest Novelties.


In the Effort to Give the Nation Dust Proof
Thcrouehfares Experimental Roads are
Constructed with the Bypropucts or Blast
Furnaces and Sugar Refineries.
Uniquely interesting are number
of the experiments now being conduct
ed bv the Office of Public Roads of the
United States Department of Agrlcul-
ture; oBe being the effort to build
dust proof road by combining the here
tofore little used blast furnace Stag,
with asphalt or tar.
This endeavor is of the utmost eco
nomic Importance, because if the hoped
for success is attained, unsightly noun
tains of Stag will soon disappear from
the vicinity of scores OF cities, ana
ready market will have been establish
ed for vast quantities of this material.
For several years the scientists IN
the Office of Public Roads, as well as
in many of the more progressive STATES
have been working to achieve two
great objects, viz, the utilization OF
oy-pr oducts in road building and the
ievelobment of dustless roads. Ex-
periments already conducted Indicate
that crushed rock combined with tar
or asphalt preparations bid fa'r TO
solve in a measure the dustless road
problem. Exhaustive laboratory tests
have indicated that Stag in combina-
ton with preparations of tar or asphalt
may be made to serve as a substitute
for crushed rock Sections OF expert
mental road are now being constructed
which will subject the materials to ac-
tual service test. If the results are as
satisfactory as the preliminary condl-
tions indicate, the Stag aspholt or Stag
tar roads will realize the hope OF the
scientists for both the utilization OF
by-products and the attainment OF a
dustless road. One of these expert
mental stretches Of road is now in
course of construction at Chicago, I'M
der the supervision OF Chief Engineer
Vernon NJ PIERCE, of the Federal Bu-
reau, and one at birmingham, Alabama
under the direction of Mr.. b. Il. Heldel,
First Assistant Engineer.
The road 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. If in the spring it
has been established that this 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 a never-falllng
market will have been created for blast
furnace waste.
Besides this activity in Stag expert
ments. the Public Roads Office is also
busy at Newton, Massachusetts, with
a special asphalt preparation, never be-
fore tried, which the Director and his
lieutenants hope may prove efficacious
as dus. binding surface material
More unique than this, however, the
Office is preparing at the same place to
Law stretch of what facetious writer's
are almost certain to label Candy
Road In all fights of fancy it IS
probable that nobody except scientist
would go so far afisld in research as to
adopt molasses as .. road building ma
terial. but that is exactly what has
been done here, and Assistant Chemist
Provost Hubbard of Director Pages
scientific corps il leveling half mile
stretch of road near Newton, and in
few DAYS will be in active supervision
of the laying of the first molasses road
of history This molassss is the al
most useless by-product of the great
cane sugar refineries of the South, and
the beet sugar refneries of the West
and Southwest. 1t is sickishly sweet,
yearly as black and as thick as tar,
and almost as powerful as binder.
Having always been . waste product,
it can be bought at a lower price than
coal tar and in greater quantities.
When the quantity aad the sticky
consistency of this material was called
to the attention of Director Page,
number Of months ago, he conceived