The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-09-22
TAX ON GASOLINE
WOULD LAY DUST
ON STATE ROADS
Calcium Chloride Eliminates One
of the Worst Traffic Evils
PREVENTS WASHBOARDING
Adds to Health and Comfort of
Motorists and Rural
Residents

ms year has brought into sight a
practical method Of doing away with
the dust on Vermont's motor travelled
roads. With relief at hand at a
price the State can pay, all the peo-
pie who use the principal roads or
live along them, realize no price in
reason is too high for eliminating the
unhealthy, dangerous and very costly
dust.
Dust Is costly in many ways, First
il represents throwing off road ma.
terial, put on at great cost, in some
places faster than 1t can be put on.
Highway dust cannot fill the eyes,
nostriis and lungs of thousands daily,
without starting many colds and
spreading the injecting germs of doz
ems OF diseases.
On week ends and holidays during
pleasant weather, so many cars are
used the dust never clears on the
main roads. This has driven all eX.
perienced motorists who can ride at
other times to keep Off the roads on
these occasions. The number who
may select their own time to ride is
small. Most car owners who ride for
recreation, must attend to business
and can ride at no other time except
on days when most all are out to.
gether Lunch by the roadside is un-
peasant and unhealthy with clouds
OF dust blowing over and all the
roadside vegetation covered thickly.
Dust causes dozens of accidents.
Drivers of cars who will follow each
other peachably over dustless roads.
without an idea of racing, getting a
good supply of grit between their
teeth on dusty road, will fight like
fiends for the lead under conditions
dangerous enough to scare to Jelly,
the most experienced racing driver
Residents along a much used dus,
ty road are irritated to desperation
by the conditions; the house may
have a moss OF dust all over IT.. Fly.
ing dust has an amazing power Of
penetration 1t will get into every
room on the exposed side of a house
A porch is useless and one often
wishes he had built the front of the
house at the back. Going down the
road a way to a friends for supper
one should take clean clothes in an
air tight case and battle and dress af
ter arriving If the supper is cooked
and served in the cellar on the back
side of the house, there may not be
any dust in the food if the house is
we'll back from the road has double
windows and is back p,astereG.
Last summer and this season an
increasing number of gaps in the run
of the dust eating gauntlet have been
furnished by state and privately
treated stretches of road, upon which
an application of ca.cium chloride
has been made The low cost OF this
material, the ease with which it may
be applied and its freedom from the
unpleasant and dirty features OF the
oil process have made it very pOpu.
lar Few progressive farmers who
have learned of its features and have
been able to purchase this calcium
chloride have failed to make an ap-
plication in front of their residence.
Calcium chloride in white flakes or
crystals has an extreme affinity for
moisture. When spread on the road,
ii at first appears like a light fall OF
snow it settles into the road surface
very promptly and the moisture II abb
serbs from the atmosphere keeps the
road slightly damp. The effect pro.
duced is like some Vermonts famous
shaded Gulf Roads" in Williams
town, Roxbury or Granville. The
road is held together, it packs firmly
but not hard. The honing treatment
may be applied at any time Patrol
work on such a road is much simpler
than on an oiled road, more in line
with the training Of Vermont patrol
men and more likely to be correctly
done.
A gravel road kept we'll treated with
calcium chloride, will not wa3hboard
or go to pieces except the road be IN
a location where traffic is so heavy
no road but high grade cement or
btuminous macadam could stand A
chloride treated road is not slippery
after a shower as is thoroughly
oiled gravel road.
Two applications of calcium chlor-
ide, each much less expensive than an
application of oil, will keep good
gravel road dustless for a long sea
son. During the application process,
there is no dangerous or disagreeable
period. The road need not be closed
while the material is being applied
Patrolmen can easily use the materi.
al as they work, adding where need
ed and applying a light coat where
they resurface a section.
1t is said by Vermont road authori'
t es that a tax of one cent gallon
on gasoline will amply provide for the
chloride treatment of all Vermont's
main roads. Who would say no!
The driver of a fliyyer? Never. The
man in the big Sedan? Never. The
family living by the road? Never
The tourist? Never Well, bring II
on and quickly.