Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1915-11-25

! by contractor named Montgomery,
 under the supervision of MT. Joyner fand is lover four years old. During
 the progress of the work, so MT. Joy
 ners saidN.oyer the telephone, the Cali
 fornia manager for Warren brothers
 cautioned MT. Joyner not to violate
 the Warren patents. As result of
 this Mr. Joyner said he had assumed
 that the pavement must be Warrenite
 MT Joyner's statements over the tel
 ephone- were so different from his tel
 egram that I decided personally to
 visit the piece of road in question. :, did so and found it in far better shape
 after. more than four years of heavy traffic than any piece Of concrete
 road I found in California;. This Gl Ibelieye should dispose of MT. JoyneF,s
 telegram It is reasonable to ;assunat
 that some of the other telegrams from
 California engineers are no more re-
 liable .,
 tqeThe specific charge has also. been
 made that, while eWafrenite; iso a fine pavement when laid on a concrete
 base, is no good when laid oa' loose
 rocks Idid not know of course wheth-
 CT this statement was otruefer not and
 immmediately upon my arrival in Cal
 ifornia set out to learn the truth for I myself In connection with this charge let me tell what found" Iiexamined
 a two-inch Warrenitet surface in Los
 Angeles on Wiltshire Boulevard that had been laid on a four or five inch
 cement concrete base. I examined
 many miles of road in Fullerton and | Orange county where four inches of | Warrenite was laid directly on the soil which is greatly similar to the | soil in Yuma valley. I examined thir- | teen miles of road at, and adjacent I to Hermosa Beach where four inches | of Warenite had been laid six or seven years ago right on the sand. also examined Orange Grove avenue in | Pasadena where nearly six years ago | two inches of Warrenite was laid on
 , four-inch loose rock base such as is proposed in Yuma county also ex-
 amined at Bryant Square, Los Angeles, l 50,0O0 yards of Wafrenite five years old; where one and one-haH inches of SVarrenite had been laid on a loose lfock base one and one-halfa inches thick, giving the entire pavement a thickness of but three inches. This work is in splendid condition and is | the most remarkable piece of pave ment I saw on the entire trip, as ac- eording to oisome of the engineers, who nave wired into Yuma, it should have disappeared into thin air the first year after it was laid.[ n.oEl r5.'f1 5s'i 10. Summing up the above,TiI will say that the finest piece of road saw l5n the trip was the two-inch Warren. ite surface laid on four inches of loose. rock. The next best was where five
 inches of Warrenite had been laid di-
 rectly on the soil at Anahefm and di,
 reetly on the shifting beach sand at
 Hermona The Anaheim pavement is
 8 part of the main Los Angeles-San
 Diego highway and withstands more
 r-af IoI ba d would stand in month This road is over eight years old and is in absolute- lyf perfect condition, not a cent ever having been spent for repairs or
 mathematics o2t -4s..9 33j I1i . aj The poorest Warrenite saw was
 where it had been laid on concrete base. In this instance the surface had not worn particle, but it had moved
 slightly on the concrete base and was
 rougher than the Warrenite laid on
 loose rock or on the sand but not
 nearly as rough as the oil surface con- crete. It was made very plain by ob-
 serVation to an unprejudiced person
 that Warrenite forms a better bond
 with loose rock or the soil itself than it does with concrete I can only re- peat that the Warrenite laid on the soil or on loose rock base was so far superior to the oil surface, cement. concrete as to be almost beyond com parison and that even the Warrenite on a concrete base was far superior to any oil surface concrete could find. I found that Warrenite ranging from 3 to years old was in perfect condition under heavy traffic and that | it required absolutely no maintenance. | could not find a single patch on the Warrenite except on one street in Pasadena where the pavement had been dug up to lay a sewer line. slaE
 It was made plain that the people are not entirely satisfied in California with tho oil c1Irfo oo ooncroto Sucb O q l