The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1915-05-27
How Your Roads Should
Be Built.

| to put down 16 feet Of gravel. w
I, do not think there would be yer,
much mileage of this kind. Their
are parts Of our read where 4 inch
es of Tishomingo gravel prorerl.
rolled would answer. There ar
other parts where s inches o
gravel would be necessary.
Last Saturday l was out ovel
the Shiloh pike, which has beer
under heavy use for over two
years. l was out aversthis road
right after a very hard rain, and
found it in perfect condition
the gravel on this road is 5 to
inches thick. 1t would not take
over 15ssloads of gravcl to make II
in thorough rep ir. 8 inches of
gravel 8 feet wild, takes 1000 yds
to the mile, l6 fe wide 2C00 yds.
to the mile. 4 in aes deep, 8 feet
wide. 500 yds. to The mile; 4 in.
deep Is #. wide, 100 yds. to the
mile. This grave can be hauled
from good mary local points.
A small amount of it, it will pay
to ship by cars, shipping by cars
only where saving can be ef-
fected in a haul by wagon. For
instance, building road across
Yellow Greek bottom,, it would be
better to ship to Burnsvilie, max
ing that delivery point, then
taking.it from local pits. AT this
time these roads should be laid out
giving a sight distance of not less
than 200 feet. Our lands are not
so valuable but what we can do
this, thus assuring perfect safety
from fast teams and automobiles
on our roads.
This manner of road will be
very easily maintained, the cost
of maintenance being practically
nothing. 1t is proper that a road
grader should be run over the road
on the side Of the gravel. IA couple
of times a year to properly shape
up the road bed, keeping all the
ruts out of it, which insures a
smooth road and also gives the
water a chance to Immediately
flow off of the road bed. 1t is also
very important that the bitches
and drains be kept open and free.
Below we show a letter from DR..
S. F. Carr, of Clarksdale, Miss,
Chancery Clerk of Coahoma Coun-
ty, this being the first county in
the state to build hard roads out
of Tishomingo gravel. These
roads we're built over IA years
ago and you can see that the
maintenance has beeu practically
nothing.
Clarksdale Miss, May IL. 1915
Allen Gravel Co..
Iuka, Miss,
Dear Sirs:
In reply to your letter of
the 18th inst. beg to say that
Coahoma County has used great
deal of the Tishomingo gravel in
the last fourteen years and it has
given (where properly put DOWN
absolute satisfaction. We have
mile of road that we put dewn
by private subscription CATER ex-
periments with every known mode
or method known to us Of building
good roads had failed, until we
used Tishomingo grayel) and this
road is now perfect at all times of
the year and with all kinds of
weather and today is as good and
perfect as is possible for a road
to be, and has cost less than five
dollars per mile to maintain it in
this condition for the last fourteen
years. In my opinion and the
experience we have had with it in
Coahoma County, there is no ma
terial that / know of that can
equal it. Yours truly,
S. Carr
Chancery Clerk and Ex-
Oficio County Auditor
Coahoma County, Miss.
Corinth. Miss. gravcled their
streets about Is years ago and
they have spent practically moth
l:~. =. +ha+ +;,,,a With these kinds