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ROAD WORK IN ENGLAND. Method of Maintaining Highways and Filling Up Soft Spots. <>F INTEREST To FAEMERS AMP M: < H ’ • A DOUBLE COMBINATION ♦ ♦ . TREASURE BOX. I It may interest many to learn 'how' + + Government Bureau's Sound Ad- road maintenance is carried out in + «b + 4* + * + + + + + + * + + * + + + Great Britain uud Ireland. All roads 3y ELBERT T. BENTLEY. vioc on Road Drainage. and bridges are unAer the direct j (Copyright, 1809, by American Press Asso ciation.] charge of the county surveyor, who is REMOVE ALL WATER QUICKLY. lu all cases a quulifled civil engineer, "There’s a letter for you in the box. with assistants under him to see to Billy.” said the farmer. "Somepln 1m- the detail work. He divides the roads I portant, 1 reckon.’’ That on 8urfaoo and Underground as of the county into sections, as seems Billy Andrews, a young farm hand, Wall—Center of Highway Should Ba best to him. for maintenance purposes. threw down a pitchfork with which Raised—Siao of Tiles and Laying These several sectious are advertised he had been tossing hay on to a wag- Thom Matters of Importance. locally in the newspaper« and by oth [ on, went to a rural delivery box on er means, and blds are invited for their the road and took out a letter. The The United Staten office of public maintenance for six or twelve months, printing referred to was the firm name roads In Washington sent out the fol says James Johnston of Douglas coun i and address of (’leaver. Cuttie & lowing bulletin regarding the proper ty. Neb., in the Breeder's Gazette of i Crane, attorneys at inw. Tlie letter manner of road drainage: Chicago. These bids are opeued on a | stated that William Henderson. Billy’s With an average of 27.000 tons of certain day by a board of county com uncle, had died and liefore his death water falling In the form of rain on missioners. assisted by the county sur had executed an Instrument giving his each mile of public road In the United veyor. The lowest bidder gets the nephew, who had been named for him. States annually, it is scarcely to Is* work, but no bld is accepted until the a farm worth $10,000. The deed was successful bidder puts up a bond deposit comps marveled at that the ten command signed by two solvent sureties tiiat the deposited in a safety ny’s vault in the city. The key to the ments of the road builder can be sum work will be performed. Should tin* box was at the attorneys’ office, and med up succinctly In the word "drain contractor fail to do the work the Billy could have it by calling for it the age.** The saying luts truth for a county surveyor can have it done and next day at 3 p. m. basis, as good drainage is the primary sue the bondsmen for the work and Obtaining leave to go to the city at requisite for all roads. Even in sand costs. All bidders for this work have the appointed time, Billy put on bis roads this holds true, for there "good specifications of tlie work to be dont store suit, took a train and in an hour drainage*’ means such as will safely on the several sections of road. IIow was in the office of Cleaver, Cuttle & long the section is, how many tons of remove the storm water without ero metal are to be broken and put on, Crane. Mr. Crane received him and read him the document by which the sion or gullying and still retain the cleaning, keeping the water tables farm was conveyed. It was a very surface moisture. clear and the grass off the road—all singular paper. The box at the de To obtain good drainage one must these are specified, so that he knows posit company was one usually rented take Into consideration both the sur exactly what he has to do. The mat- to business partners. It had a double face water and the underground wa ter of putting on the metal Is looked combination lock, one half of the com ter. The surface water must be re after very closely indeed, The con- bination beiug known to one partner moved quickly and completely and tractor has to put all the material on and the other half to the other, so without subjecting the road to excess the roadside. The surveyor or his as that ft could only be opened when ive Bcour or erosion. For this reason sistant conies and measures it and both were present. Mr. Henderson bad the center of the road should be raised, then marks it with slaked lime, so Ki ven $10,0(10 in bonds to another per and the slope towurd the side ditches that it cannot be interferred with un son, and, for the sake of economy, so should be from one-half to one inch til it is put on the road, Farmers are said the instrument, had deposited the to each foot dlstauce, or so that the always the contractors for this work, deed and the bonds together in one of water will run freely to the side I The roads everywhere are always in these double combination boxes. It ditehes and not flow down the road or good condition. There are many soft was specified that either party should remain in puddles on the roadway. spots over there—bog and low lands, go at the other’s call bo assist in open The side ditches should be of ample with rain every day and sometimes ing the box. Mr. Crane had notified size to care for the severest storms, twenty-four hours at a time but the the other party to be at the deposit with a fall of not less than six inches heaviest autos can spin along tlie bog company’s vaults at 4 o’clock that day. to each hundred feet. Frequent, am roads and hi tlie rainiest weather with This economical arrangement was ple cross drains should be constructed no damage to the road. certainly very well devised, though They have no difficulty with the soft Mr. Henderson had not been a money and every opportunity taken to get the water away from tlie road as quickly bottoms in Ireland. They simply throw saver, nnd it seemed singular that he as possible. Any road along which you in rock, and tlie softer the spot the should so suddenly have shown such a see water standing lu the side ditches bigger'the rocks, until they make it a disposition. Mr. Crane sent a clerk or on which puddles of water have hard spot nnd then put the small stuff with Billy to the vaults, and the young collected or which has been badly gul on top. A mistake will surely- be farmer was shown into a parlor and lied and eroded by the rains has poor made If bricks are thrown into soft asked to wait a few minutes. He drainage and is iu need of Immediate spots. They are simply no good for spent them wondering what tlie “other fellow" looked like—if he were a farm attention. In fact, earth roads nearly the purpose intended. It is to be hoped that the people of er or a city chap. While he was con always require a little attention after the United States will stop spending lecturing the door opened and the cus each rain. The split log drag is essentially a time and wasting money in shoveling todian ushered In as pretty a country tool to maintain good drainage on our dirt into the soft spots, but will go to girl of eighteen or thereabouts as Billy work like men of business and build had ever seen. She was Lucy Miller, roads. the owner of the bonds. “I will take you two,’’ said the cus NEW KIND OF ROAD MATERIAL todian. "to your box and show you the process of opening it." Opening several doors composed of Salt and Alkali Scale From Boilers steel bars and several more of solid Used In Parts of Kansas. The farmers in central Kansas as metal, he took them into a place well as the people in the towns have where boxes were ranged in profusion. been interested in good roads for sev Turning a key in the lock of their box, eral years, and iu Ellsworth and its the custodian opened a small, thick door and exposed a knob. He gave ▲ HOAD THAT DRAINAGE WOULD IMPROVE, vicinity one can see almost any kind BilJy a series of numbers a id showed of a made road. earth roads and should be used after At one or two places in Ellsworth him bow to turn the knob. Then he each rain. On a heavy clay or gumbo county there are short roads where supplied Miss Miller with similar in soil the drag when properly used tends treatment lias been given similar to the formation. The joint owners of the to puddle the road surface, keep it free pavement on Douglas avenue in Ells box were occupied casting sly glances from ruts, dense, smooth and hard, worth. Here there are two blocks that at each other, and it required several thus securing the best surface drain fool four fift hs of the visitors to the lessons to enable them to get at their age possible. town. Tlie treatment of this street respective treasures. When the box But in many places the underground was commenced about two or three was dually opened each took a look at water is too near the surface umi years ago. consisting of coarse and the contents. They expressed them must be removed before a good road fine cinders in layers, then a covering selves satisfied, exchanged addresses will be possible. This means that surface of salt and alkali scale. and departed. some form of subdrainage must be In a couple of days Lucy Miller re The water in this country is very resorted to, usually tile tintins or clay hard, and in all the steam boilers at ceived a note from Billy saying the or concrete. Water from whatever the salt mills and other factories a sort, whole matter had been such a surprise source must be got rid of effectively of alkali forms which must be remov to him that he had not even thought ▲s water lu freezing expands one- ed frequently, and this, with the salt to notice the location of his farm. eighth its volume, the road heaves out and alkali scale that forms in the salt Wogpl she mind meeting him again at df shape, and wheu the lee melts the pans, is used on Douglas avenue. It an appointed time? Of course she con road disappears beneutb the rising tide forms a bard crust and makes a most sented she was obliged to consent - of mad constantly fed by rains, melt excellent street. It is a success on and four days after the first opening ing snows and underground springs. the most busy thoroughfare of Ells there was a second one. Then Lucy In seepy and boggy places the sub1 worth. and If the supply was not so wrote that some one had asked her if drainage in order to be fully effective limited the farmers would use it Tor her bonds were “registered” or “cou should lower the water level to not the rural roads and more of the streets pon." and she didn’t know. She would less than three feet below the road of Ellsworth would be paved with It. like him to help her unlock the box. During the second week of the joint surface, if tiles are used they should The salt and alkali crust on Douglas be carefully laid, true to grade. Most aveuue is now about three inches ownership' the box was opened four failures in tile drainage can be at thick, and this lies on three inches of times. On the fourth Billy told the tributed to carelessness in laying or coarse cinders and three inches of tine custodian that he needn't trouble him too flat grade. Tile less than four cinders. It. makes a pretty street, in self to come with them to t'he box inches in diameter should rarely is* appearance being like an asphalt pave since they now understood the opening process perfectly. The custodian smiled used, nor should a grade of less than ment before it becomes dirty. and reminded Billy that he had cer six inches to the hundred feet Is? used tain unlocking to do himself. When unless absolutely nece^ugry in a very Cost of Oiling Roads. they left the office Billy looked wist dense sol) it is always advisable to A recently published wport of the fully at a leather covered sofa in the cover the tile to at least s depth of six to twelve inches with a coarse sand Boston park commission is Interesting. parlor, wishing he and Lucy could sit In 1906 twelve miles of road were there awhile together, but tlie deposit or flue gravel. Care should always Is* treated with oil to keep down the company was a place of business and taken to procure a free outlet for the dust, and the result was so satisfac nothing else. However, when Lucy drains and to protect the outlet with tory that in 1907 the whole extent of a concrete bulkhead or catch basin, more than forty miles was treated in wished to cut her coupons Killy- was which can always be kept clean and this way. Mr. Putnam, the engineer, permitted to go into a little 4 by 6 compartment with her while she did the outlet free has carefully calculated the cost, and the clipping. The kind of tlie to be used depends he says that the annual cost of sprin Billy wished to take [KMsession of on local conditions. Concrete tile if kling a thirty foot roadway was $-IS9 his farm, but had no money for live properly made Is‘quite as good ns clay a mile, whereas the cost of oiling the tile. Which kind to use is entirely a same roadway thirty feet wide was stock <>r farming Implements. This local questiou of dollars and cents. If $375. In addition to laying the dust, suggested Lm y's bonds. He couldn’t concrete tile cun tie made more cheap Jhe asphaltum in the oil had a binding steal them if tie wanted to. which he ly than clay tile can be iiad. use con effect on the surface of the road and didn't, for both Lncy and the custo dian were present when they were crete: if not. use clay tile. very materially lessened the cost for open to Idin. Besides, what would he repairs. The oil is put on In an emul do on the farm alone? He wouldn’t Convict Labor In Building of Roads. sion in which fifteen pounds of soap think of running It without woman's At a recent meeting of the national diMolved in flft.v gallons of water are help. good roads board, held In New York mixed with a hundred gallons of crude One day Billy got a note from the city. Senator C. T. I.asslter of Virginia oil. the whole being agitated to the manager of the deposit company that outlined the method of building roads proper point of emulsion, and then 150 the partnership box had been rented with convicts in the Old Dominion. gallons of this are mixed with 450 gal for only throe mon I ha and the term C. Gordon Neff, the chairman of the lons of water nnd sprinkled on the was alMHit t«> expire. Billy and Lu , board, has deckled to make a canvass mads. The plan has given the very rould not have it for another term of the eutire United States to find out best satisfaction In Boston and might for the reason that their visits to theta which states employ convicts In the l>e trhnl elsewhere with eorres|M>ndtug- box were so frequent that it took up building of roads. This will be fol ly satisfactory results. too much of the custodian's time lowed up later with an effort to get On receipt of this letter Billy went other states to use convict labor In A Move For Good Roads. to the addn*>s Lucy Miller had riven road building There is a general Nearly LOdO.oot) voters of Pennsyl him. ami before he left her they wore movement to abolish convict labor in vania have signed petitions asking the married nod went to live on Billy's lines of the Industry where It Ipter state legislature to start the movement farm fares with orguidzed labor, but In no which In 11*13 wfll give a bond issue of ••What a slide feller ole Bill Hender •action of ttoe country dyes organized SnO.tklO.UOO for building good roads. son was!" -«id a neighbor. “TIow he tabor object to the use of convicts In The sum of f.Vtinn.Otai will lie asked did plfly it on them two chicks he th« building of <<.s4 road« for tv begin Immediate sori wanted b> bring together!*’ X 1'..Ifliers ami tueebnnic- fu qo. 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