Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-11-14

half what other pavements cost and
due to outlast any two pavements In
general use today.
However, let me tip OF to you
here the big secret in the paving
game. The reason we have had
brick and asphalt and Sarco and
| Bitulithic and creosoted blocks and
a dozen other patented and special
forms Of street paving is because
somebody has something to sell and
he puts salesman behind 1t. Sand
| is a local product, Cement goes in
| to any kind OF pavement. hence
THE cement companies win no matter
what pavement is used. The sales
Imen with a pavement to sell pro-
mote movement for street paving
and the average city council buys
what is offered without knowing
anything about paving In general.
Nobody is financially interested in
all concrete pavements. SO they have
only lately been generally discover
ed.
But do not get the idea that thel
| all concrete street pavement is eith-
er new or untried. At least two
firms have patented formulate fof
mixing all concrete pavements and
by controlling the patented process
they could get price high enough
to cover cost of promotion or selling
cost, hence you will find Hassam
concrete block all through the big
cities Of the East, such as Lynn, Sa-
lem and Worcester. Mass, Troy and
Utica, N. Y, St. Joseph and Spring
field, Mo-, Portland, Me-, and Port
land, Oregon, and you will find
Granitoid around the big plants OF
the Western Electric Company. Ar
mour & Company and Sears Roe
buck & Company in Chicago, lots OF
lit in the steel trusts model city Of
Gary, Ind. and more or less of 1T
lin Knoxville, Tenn, New Orleans,
Kansas City, Washington, d. c., and
many other places. I have inves.t-
gated nearly every one of these con-
crete pavements by correspondence
with disinterested persons on the
ground or personally and have yet
to find one Of them failing to wear.
But the patented concrete is some
thing to beware. For instance, when
X was fighting monopolized price
on Granitoid in Marshalltown ] OBJ
tanned the patent papers from
Washington and employed a lawyer
tc tell me just what was patented.
Granitoid has concrete base 8 h
inches thick, mixed 1884 OF cement,
sand and stone, with concrete
wearing surface IL inches thick
mixed one of cement to 1k OF gran
lite chips, with no sand, and the
granite chips were sized half OF 4
inch, 80 per cent of " inch and
20 per cent Of 1-16 inch. The pat
emit covered the principle Of mixing
granite chips Of varying sizes with
cement to make concrete. ] discoy-
cred from the lawyer that we could
evade the Granitoid patent by using
| the same base and mixing the top
one OF cement, one of sand and one
Of granite chips.
| The mayor Of Bohemian, Montana,
wrote me that he evaded the Gran
itoid patent by using top & ono
part cement, one of sand and one OF
crushed gravel. Fort Dodge now
has pavement with the 1:1:1 top
and it is an excellent concrete, but
the use Of granite chips in the top
| is a useless expense. Mason City has
| Just as good a pavement for 35 cents
per square yard less cost. Her wear
ing surface Is two inches thick IL.
The same can be said Of the Has
sam concrete. It is fine and dur
able, but note this: When / was
fighting the monopoly price of Gran
itoid In Marshalltown encouraged
the Hassam people to butt in. When
the salesman found that had the
cost figures Of concrete In every
form and knew all about the patents
he frankly told me that the margin
of profit would be too close to inter-
est him and he Immediately took the
next train out Of town. He was
looking for clear field and a
chance to cover the cost OF promo
ton. The Hassam concrete is a
grouting method. Instead OF mix
ing cement, sand and stone together
the stone is laid on the street ana
rolled, then the sand and cement are
poured on to fill the voids. The top
is the 1:1:1 mixture with the stone
rolled dry and cement and SAND
motar grouted in. Hassam, howeve-,
can be had for s1.65 where Gram
told usually costs $500 or over.