Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-04
coHRErE PAVING HERE TO STAY.

C0NRETE PAVING HERE TO STAY.
The Times Republican is in receipt
Of several inquiries regarding suitable
paving material for county seat towns
and the Times Republican remains a
confident booster for concrete paving
after the material has been thoroughly
tried and tested for street use.
Eldora, Usage, Toledo, Mason City
and Marshalltown have tried concrete
seven inches thick laid in two courses
at prices varying from $1.0S TO Sl.23
per square yard, and the people of each
of these towns would use concrete II
any more paving We're projected. SIOUX
City has demonstrated two material
facts in the use of concrete, namely,
that a pavement mixed 1-2-4 OF cement,
sand and gravel and laid ali at one
pour or in one course with the heavier
aggregate tamped so as TO settle at
the bottom is a success and that con-
crete paving on the steep grades OF
Sioux City's hilly streets is as safe a
paving for traffic as can be laid.
Concrete under the Hassam perco-
lating method has been success on
the billy streets of ST. Joseph ana
Springfield, Mo-, and concrete can be
made rougher on its surface by proper
scratching when setting than brick or
any other paving material.
Concrete paving properly laid will
prove more durable than any other
paving material. No one now quest
tions its durability in street crossings
O., the concrete paving of the crudest
kind of construction laid around the
court house square is still doing ex-
cellent service after twenty years OF
use. In Chicago the streets Of ter
riffically severe traffic around the Ar
mour packing plant and Sears, Roe
buck &. Co.'S warehouse are paved with
concrete.
There are many patented processes
|
| pavements with composition wearing
| surfaces most of which are good pave
| ments but cost much more than pialn
| concrete for the primary purpose IN
them is TO give the owner royalty
| or a monopoly upon the bidding. Prac-
/ ticaiiy ali of them use the concrete
| Scly nd mi
| proxi1nately 1-2-5. The wearing sur
| face from one and one-half to two
| inches thick is made of hitunlinous as
| phalt mixed with sand and crushed
rock. In some cases the only variation
! in specifications is in the special brand
of bitumen used. In others the nitu-
men is poured on to the rock not ano
allowed to percoiate thru the mass
while in most of them ii is thoroughly
mixed with sand and stone while hot
and rolled. Still a newer process is te
Law a concrete base with concrete
wearing surface and then coat the toI
with bitumen a quarter of an liner
thick. This is not very expensive ant
can be renewed each year. 1t soften!
the Pavement for travel and cover:
any unsiehtly checks that may come i.
he concrete. It has been used success
fully in Ann Arbor. Mich, and in Cen
trail Park, New York City.
Concrete will cost on the low;
seven-year assessment plan approx
r1atelv $50 Per year for a sixty foo
lot crontage if the street intersection!
arc pa:d out Of t:!e general fund a.
both have come down in price in com
petition with concrete and can now %
: secured at prices averaging about d
per cent more than concrete where the.
once cost twice as much, but tcr q!
cities in Iowa concrete Still remains IN
most suitable paving. 1t is maze
material which is nearly always to D
had at home and freight hau!s ar
eliminated. In it's repair neither
l special mixing plant for asphalt no
: brick paving experts are needed for IN
average sidewalk mason can repai
concrete paving Contracts, however
should be let early in the spring whel
, contra ctors are eager to bid and wnel
cement is always low in price.