The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-10-20

do. Water in the sub grade of the
macadam road causes a bulge in the
road. The building of the ,nacadarl
road with a tar binder offers a great
deal of competition for the construc-
ton Of the parts of the road.
1.-THE automobiles is what killed out
macadam roads. These pictures show
you how they tear them UP, even the
| slow machines taking the country
roads at slow speed.
| I'VE find that the best way for build
ing macadam roads is to make the
properly kind of sub grade, place the
| foundation of three sizes of stone on
top of the sub grade and over this
place two coats of a tar or asphalt
binder with a coat of sand between
| them. In some places the nacadam
and binder Is mixed before going on
the street and satisfactory results are
secured in this way and the method
does not infringe upon any patents
thereby saving the cities royalty.
San Francisco has a new pavement
which is giving fine results. 1t has
concrete base and then quarter inch
coat Of asphalt and sand Below 1t
| gives the wearing qualities of stone and
above the fine quality Of the asphalt.
which has proven to be much better
paving for the business districts than
the creosoted blocks
1.-THE department Of good roads does
not feel it wants to advocate the use
of any bituminus macadam roads un-
til they have been tried. However, ]
would advise you to try some Of the
experiments and with two blocks each
) put in square Of each Of these kinds
. Of bituminus paving.
Right here / want to say some
thing about the width Of streets in III,
residence district. They are general
| ~ thirty feet and can be made smaller
In many of the residence districts al
over the country they run this Width
or less.
'. "The brick pavement is the idea
pavement. 1t will last longer. If prop
> erly placed. It is perfectly sanitar.
and aside from the noise. it is tn
best He then explained the metho,
: of building the brick as was told ii
yesterdays issue Of The Forum in al
interview with Mr.. Burrell.
II have some figures here for pawn
in Cass county for 1904. These sho1
that then you had 1850 miles of pub
8 lie highway in Cass county. Th
d amount OF road tax collected then wa
q 800, 900. Now how many men her
f believe that you had that much none
d put into your roads? am strongly i
favor Of road supervisor, headed b
o the county commissioners, who wi
n look after the roads Of your count
s and see that they are handled properly
IL The engineer should be a man VIII
J. understands his business and PAL
e enough to keep him there. The com
Z missioners should have nothing to j
ri with these roads except the getting {
10 the money and the expenditures, til
10 engineer doing the rest as 1t is an en-
J. cheering question.
le II think that you could get you
bituminus filler put In here on you
" streets for about 80 cents yard TIL
+ does not include the concrete, white
Is / understand can be laid down at
Is reasonable charge.
IF there is proper demand mad
9. for brick paving in this country va
ID can get 1t cheap. understand TIL.
j. there is brick plant In the state tn.
n will spend $4,000 in installing ii
proper machinery for the manufactul
IL Of paving brick. II given the prop,
Is encoura cement. The was asked IL
s. was the Hebron plant and he gave 3
= affirmative reply.) With this bril-
made in~your own state 1t could |