Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-29
CELEBRATION SET
FOR COTTON |. | R
Highway Officials Pleased
With Program for Start
ing New Scheme
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir Walter HOte

| - RalelRn, July. ZS.-OIIlcldlS OF the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission are watching with great
interest the preparations being made
for the celebration to be held Tues
day, August 3, of the completion of
| the cotton road between FaisOn and
Clinton, and in which both Goldsboro
and Mount Olive will participate. Not
only will this celebration focus at
tention. all over the State upon new
and better engineering practices be-
ing employed by the highway depart
ment and tend to make the State
more conscious of it's highways, but
it may also lead to the popularization
of a new type of highway that will
eventually help the farmers, it was
pointed out.
| eve are glad to see the people OF
Wayne, Duplin and Sampson coun-
ties hold this celebration calling at
tention to the new cotton road. be-
tween Faison and Clinton, because it
means they are taking a greater in
terest in the State highway system
and the type of highways we are now
building and planning to build" Chair
man Frank L. Dunlap said today. ut
also is calling attention all over the
country to the efforts of the North
Carolina highway commission to keep
ahead of the rest of the country in
I developing new and better types of
| highways. If these cotton roads are
successful, of course, they will be the
| means of developing a tremendous
new market for cotton and thus help
! the cotton farmers. So we regard this
celebration next week as being very
significant
This particular stretch of cotton
road" between Faison and Clinton is
approximately II IL miles long and
was built as an experimental project
by the State Highway Commission
and the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads,
it was pointed out today by w. Vance
Baise, chief highway engineer. Cotton
fabric is not used throughout the en-
| tire length of the road, since some
sections were purposely built without
any fabric so that the highway en-
| gineers may compare these with the
sections on which the fabric was used.
| to see which sections stand up bet
ter. So while 1O1,850 square yards of
cotton fabric were used in the con-
struction of the road as a binder be-
tween the sand clay base and the sur
| face treatment of bituminous surfac-
| ing and crushed stone, some 7O,755
square yards of the roadway were paw
| ed without the use of any of the cot
| ton fabric, Baise pointed out. In adj
dition to the cotton fabric used, some
| 215. 900 gallons of bituminous surfac-
! ing and $500 tons of crushed stone
was used in the construction of the
road. while approximately $4,000 cubic
yards of sand and clay were used in
| the base.
Holding Up Well.
While this particular cotton road"
has not been constructed long enough
| to be of much value from an expert
mental standpoint, it is holding up
well under the heavy traffic that is
going over it every day, according to
T. V. Fahnstock, bituminous engineer
for the highway commission and un-
der whose supervision all bituminous
| and cotton roads have been and
| are being constructed. None. of these
roads have been down FOR more than
a year in North Carolina. with. the re-
| suit that it is still too early to COM
| pare the manner in which they are
| standing up under traffic with the
| bituminous surfaced roads built with
| out the cotton binder. But in other
states where the cotton fabric binder
| has been used, especially in South
| Carolina. the cotton roads" have
stood up better and lasted longer than
those built without the cotton fabric,
Of NnIV does the
| cotton binder tend to hold the sand
clay base together better and prevent
water from seeping into it, but it
| gives greater elasticity to the surface
and tend to keep it frcm cracking
ard breaking. .. $50.
Like Auto Tire.
"Our observations have been that
the cotton fabric in highway acts
very much like the cord fabric in an
automobile tire, in that it permits tie
surface to give and stretch without
breaking Fahnstock sod.
The "Cotton Road" celebration in
which Governor Clyde r. Hoey will
participate and be the principal speak
err at Clinton, will start with motor
cade from Goldsboro which will leave
there at 9:3O Tuesday morning, FOL
lowing a program that will start at
$50. The motorcade will arrive IN
Mount Olive at 10 o'clock and stay
until 1O:45, then proceed on to Faison.
where it is scheduled to arrive at
1855 and remain until 11:55 during
which time a program of speaking
and a watermelon feast will be en-
loved. The motorcade is scheduled to
arrive in Clinton at 1915, where Gov