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VALUE OF CONCRETE
Roads Constructed of This Ma­
terial Very Serviceable.
DURABLE FOR HEAVY TRAFFIC
They Can Ba Maintained at a Consider*
ably Low Cost—Freedom From Dust
and Mud a Good F«atur«—Experi­
ment In Michigan.
In a paper read before the annual
good roads convention, held recently
at Cleveland. O.. Fid ward N. Hines,
chairman of the board of Wayne coun­
ty road coniinlssioners, expressed bls
views regarding concrete roads in the
following manner:
Concrete rond» would meet the ideal
conditions of road building because of
comparatively low first cost, durability,
low maintenance cost, ease of traction
and freedom from dust and mud.
The value of concrete roads was
shown in a recent experiment near
Detroit, Mich., where a road was made
seventeen feet eight inches wide of
concrete, with shoulders on each side
of the natural soil, making the width
twenty-six feet over all at its narrow­
est point.
The annexed specification was draft­
ed. it being the intention of the board
A WELL BUILT CONCRETE ROAD.
IFrom Good Roads Magazine, New Vork-J
to do the necessary grading, tiling,
ditching, putting In of manholes, build­
ing shoulders and. iD fact, doing all
the work but the actual concreting.
Ninety-eight cents a barrel was paid
for cement and 75 cents a yard for
sand. and the prices of limestone and
¿•rushed cobble are shown in the speci­
fication. The average haul was about
two miles. Two thicknesses of three
ply tar paper were used In the three
twenty-five foot sections, the fourth
section being made half an inch wide
■nd filled with a composition of four
parts soft pitch to one part Trinidad
asphalt, to which was added 3 per cent
of still wax. the whole heated and
poured Into the joint in a boiling state,
A strip of southern pine was also used
as an experimental Joint,
The following specifications are those
under wbiqh such a road can be con
structed:
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ORIGIN OF THE SPLIT LOG.
Great
Combination
Offer
Novel Manner In Which Farmer De­
vised Scheme For Dragging Roads.
A few yearn ago a Missouri farmer
named King became disgusted, as
many a farmer bas been before and
since that time, with the condition of
the highway tietween his farm and the
neighboring village. He studied the
situation and one day devised a rude
contrivance to smooth the rough places
and round up the surface from the
ditch to the center so as to drain ofT
the water.
It was a simple affair, made of a log
split into two equal parts, a few braces
be tween them, and a chain by which
the horses hauled the drag with him
upon it. He tried it after a rain when
the ruud was soft, and it worked so
well that its fame and the fame of the
improved road spread through the
neighborhood and thence far and wide.
That was the modest beginning, and
now the split Jog drag, which any
farmer or road commissioner can make
in a few hours, is revolutionizing the
methods of maintaining dirt roads—
methods which have always been noto­
riously expensive and ineffective. The
drag was not patented, and its in­
ventor. with nothing to sell and only
as a good roads enthusiast, has toured
the country telling gatherings of farm­
ers. road commissioners and local offi­
cials the marvelous results both in im­
mediate improvement and in the sub­
sequent cheapness of maintenance ac­
complished In the middle west, where
the drag is now in general use. In­
deed. I d one state. Iowa, its use on all
country roads is now required by leg­
islative enactment.
The great value of good roads to the
agricultural interests of the country
is appreciated everywhere. A compar­
atively small mileage of the roads can
be surfaced with crushed stone or
gravel, and in the cheap and effective
maintenance of the prevailing dirt
roads the device, primitive in appear­
ance. made from a split log and back­
ed by the energy of an Intelligent
western farmer, promises to be a most
Important agent.
PLEA FOR GOOD ROADS.
QUEER FREAK OF NATURE.
A Siberian Lake That Is Covered With
a Roof of Salt.
There is in Siberia one of the stran­
gest freaks of nature yet discovered.
Near a place called Obdorsk is a salt
lake nine miles wide and seventeen
miles long, almost a little sea. And
yet except In a few scattered places
this great body of water is covered
with a roof of salt, which is about
three feet above the surface. The
traveler who found it says that’it was
in summer time that he visited it, and
when approached it looks like a vast
plain of snow surrounded by fields of
ripening grain. This contrast makes
the sight all the more interesting. *
An old man who rememliers when
the first salt crystals formed on the
surface of the water acted as a guide
to the traveler. Every year the evapo­
ration of tiie water left more crystals,
and after awhile they became a sort
of crust covering nearly the whole sur-
j face. Several years ago the water
; found an outlet into the river Obi. and
that lowered tiie lake's surface about
three feet, leaving that -space between
the water and the salt roof.
The guide took the traveler down
through a hole in the roof Into a low
flat boat that was resting in the water
underneath. They both lay down on
their backs in the boat and moved it
here and there on the water, using the
irregularities of the roof as a means of
pushing the boat along. The effect as
the sun shone down through the crys­
tals was magically beautiful, its rays
being refracted into all the hues of the
rainbow.
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a gigantic combination offer that will
furnish them all the news of the
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If you have aDy trouble with your
stomach you should take Chamber­
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Mr. J. P. Klote of Edma, Mo., says:
“I have used a great many different
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find Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets more beneficial than
any other remedy I ever used.” For
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country in a metropolitian daily and
all the news of Bandon and vicinity in
the Recorder at a marvelous low price
The partnership heretofore exist
ing under the name of Pickett &
Hollenbeck on the first day of Jan.
A. D. 1910 dissolved bv mutual
consent, Ada Nettie Hollenbeck to
assume all debts and receive all ac­
sections properly they form the let­ counts.
ter T.
Ada Nettie Hollenbeck
Good Guessing Game.
/ E. J. Pickett.
This game has a bearing on geogra­
phy. One player selects in bls own
mind some well known city, say Bos­
ton, for example, and begins, z“I know
a place where they sell boots” (or any­
thing else beginning with “b”). The
next player then knows what letter
the place begins with and starts think­
ing what town it may be. Perhaps he
decides that it is Birmingham, in
which case he would indicate that he
thought the second letter was "I” by
saying, “1 know a place where they
sell ice” (or iron or ink). “No,” says
the first player, and the third must
then try. Site may think it is Brighton
and may say, “I know a place where
they sell rockets” (or raisins). "No,"
says the first player again, and the
trial goes around the circle.
If the right letter is not guessed be­
fore it comes around to the starter he
gives them a little light on the word
by saying, “I know a place where they
sell oranges” (or oil or oats), and so
on until the word is spelled through.
The Daily San Francisco Bulletin,
The Bandon Recorder,
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Notice of Dissolution
All cement used should be portland ce
ment of American manufacture. No more
than 8 per cent ot the cement should fail
to pass through a No. 100 sieve nor more
than 25 per cent should fail to pass
through a No. 200 sieve, and it should
stand a test of 150 pounds per square inch
tensile strain when made Into briquets
and exposed In air until final set and the
balance of twenty-four hours Immersed In
water. One day In air and six days In
water should show a tensile strength of
at least too pounds. One day in air and
twenty-seven days in water should show
a tensile strength of at least 560 pounds,
and when mixed in proportions by weight
of one of cement to three of sand and ex­
posed In air one day and In water six
days it should stand a tensile strain of at
least 150 pounds and In twenty-eight days
a strain of at least 200 pounds per square
Inch.
Sand used in making concrete should be
clean, dby, crushed quartz, trap rock,
granite or well graded bank, lake or river
sand, passing a No. 20 sieve of No. 28
wire, and be so graded as to contain tine
and coarse particles of the same grade of
material, the coarse particles to predom­
Strange Stowaways.
inate.
Among the many strange passengers
Stone for concrete can be purchased at
the following prices per ton, which prices
that come from foreign ports without
represent the actual cost of the stone laid
paying fare a flock of butterflies is the
down: Two inch. 11.80 per ton; chips, $1.90 He Will Put Down a Mile of Model
most curious. In one of the tropical
per ton; screenings. $2 per ton.
Pavement Near Tarrytown, N. Y.
In case of hard stone, weights should be
ports a cloud of butterflies hovered
computed by measurement on the basis
William Rockefeller, it was announc­ around the rigging of the ship, follow­
of 2.600 pounds per cubic vard for two ed recently, will spend $50,000 to re­
ing it out of sight of land and alight­
inch stone, 2.700 pounds ;r c. l ie yard
for chips and 2.800 pounds j r < i.blc yard pair Broadway from the North Tarry­ ing on its deck and masts. Many were
town (N. T.) village line to the south destroyed by storms, but some hid
for screenings.
Concrete for the first cours.- ho.ild con­ line of Briarcliff. The road in front of
away, and after a thirty days’ voyage
sist of one part of cement, i o i rts of
Mr. Rockefeller’s estate has been in to England they came out of their bid­
sand and live parts of broken limestone
bad condition ail summer. Mr. Rocke­ ing places and flew ashore, introduc­
and for the second course one part of ce­
ment. two parts of sand and three parts feller rides back and forth to his office ing a new species of butterfly to that
of hard stone, evenly mixed.
in New York every day in his automo­ country.
In placing the concrete in position in
the construction of the pavement the men bile and has been greatly inconven­
Cockroaches, ants, tarantulas, small
should place the concrete where directed ienced by the condition of the road.
serpents and all kinds of insects get
and so as to keep the different layers of a
The road to be repaired is more than on shipboard in tropical fruits and in
uniform thlekness. Each layer should be
Sometimes the sailors
well tamped with an approved tamper a mile long. It is proposed to build a other ways.
roadway thirty-three feet wide be­ miss provisions and other articles, and
and as directed by the Xpsineer.
The second course must be laid within tween gutters, and the central part to
then they know that there must be
twenty minutes after the first course is a width of twenty feet will be bricked
i monkeys hidden on shipboard. The
complete«! and placed and tamped same ns
with pavement blocks. On each hill monkeys may resist capture when first
the first course. And at night or at any
other time when the work is discontinued
a special block will be used. Mr. found, but they soon become very
all the work of both layers should be com­
Rockefeller thinks this road will af­ j chummy with the sailors. But they
pleted
to a common expansion Joint.
In other words, no section ot pavement ford a model that will be followed by pay for their free ride by being man's
should be allowed to be left unfinished for town authorities who are looking for slave ever after.
a longer period ot time than twenty mln
a road to stand up under the automo­
utes if work thereon has l>een started.
bile traffic. Mr. Rockefeller was the
After the second course of concrete Is
Johnnie’s Sayings.
laid and until it has thoroughly set it i first person in the county to apply oil
Johnnie
was asked to give a deflni-
should be protected from the sun by a 1 to roads, and he is the first to try this
j tlon of oxygen, and he said it was “a
canvas or other suitable covering.
kind
of
automobile
road
there.
little boy cow.”
When the concrete is sufficiently hard to
warrant, this covering should be removed
Wherf John had a small piece of pie
and the concrete covered with a layer of
Naming the Rural Highways.
put on his plate he grumbled:
sand or gravel about one inch In depth
The Garden City Telegram is advo­
“I wish cook wouldn't put so much
and sprinkled and kept damp to prevent
the surface of the concrete from drying cating a fine project in urging that the «hortenjng in this pastry.”
out too rapidly, which covering should be country roads in Kansas should be
"Where Is Hongkong. John?” asked
left on the concrete for a period of seven given
appropriate and distinctive Heacher.
days.
"I don't know, sir." answered John.
Expansion joints should be placed in i names.
said pavement every twenty-five feet by
This road naming suggestion came, 3 think he was in China last time I
actual measurement, such joints to be the Telegram believes, originally from
heard.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
made by placing In position a one-half
ihese columns, though It is by no
Inch thick strip of wood (southern pine)
The
of the same width ns the thickness of the means new outside of Kansas.
Coasting.
road metal and cut so as to conform to east, foreign countries. California and
When the snow lies hard and smooth
the finished surface of the pavement. other regions have all gone into this
'Tls coasting time, you know
Tills board should be removed after the
Happy boys and s^rls with sleds
concrete bay become set. but not until excellent course of action in the past.
To the hillside gayly go.
iwenty-four hours have elapsed after the
There is every reason for naming
Placing of the concrete on both sides ot roads.
The convenience to travelers,
Up they walk, and down they ride.
the board. Ar.d when the board Is re­
Oh. tls such exciting Joy!
the definiteness of location when di­
moved the space left by it should be tilled
the grownup who looks on
recting persons, the pride in having r And
with a filler of the following composition:
Longs to be a girl or boy.
Four parts soft pitch and one part as­
country homes designated as city
phalt (refined Trinidad), to which mixture , homes are with respect to locality and
Cheeks are red. and eyes are bright.
must be added 3 per cent ot still wax. the
Laughter rings across the land,
'he general good sense of the move­
whole to be heated and poured into the
As the sleds go gliding down
ment, should appeal to every one.
Joists In a boiling state.
With the msrry aaastlng band
ROCKEFELLER TO MEND ROAD
’T’HE RECORDER management has
Mr. Dunham, the oil expert ¿ho
spent sometime on the Bay in the '
all, has returned from California,
where he spent the holidays and
will continne his investigation of al­
A Clever Puzzle.
Cut out the queerly shaped pieces leged oil deposits in this section.
seen in the illustration, give them to
your chum and ask him to make with He expects other Californians here
soon and if they are satisfied with
the prospect, a test hole will be
sunk soon—Times.
Pennsylvania Congressman Strongly
Urges Betterment of Our Highways.
In a speech made during the cele­
bration of the surrender of Cornwallis
Congressman J. Hampton Moore plead­
ed strongly for the betterment of roads
throughout the country. He said: With
good roads and improved waterways
in the United States the Revolutionary
war could not have lasted eight years.
General Washington, he said, had in­
sisted that free and easy commercial
intercourse between the Atlantic sea­
I board and “the amazing territory to
i the westward of us" was “the beat if
I not the only cement” that could bind
the colonial states upon a permanent
basis.
Washington and his compatriots, he
pointed out, counted upon international
trade to assist in building up the col­
onies and to populate and develop the
vast country over which the grasp of
England had been released.
“Commerce and labor, capital and in­
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I dustry demand that the waterways of
I the United States, its harbors and ap­
proaches be developed now, even as
Washington and his compeers hoped
for their development.” he said.
“It is not that the railroad is failing
to give the best it can afford. It is
not that marvelous benefits, uniting
states and sections, oceans, lakes and
gulfs, have not ensued since the iron
horse began its civilization of the wil­
derness. It is simply that the popula­
tion of the country has grown more
rapidly in proportion than has the abil­
ity of the railroad to comply with the
requirements of modern transporta­
tion.”
State-wide interest is shown in
. the development congress to be held
| at Eugene February n and 12.
j Commonwealth Dav, the fifty I rst
anniversary of the admission of
Oregon as a state will be celebrated
on February 12. Questions of gen
eral interest, such as the conserva
tion of the state’s resources, exten­
sion of irrigation, country conditions,
and educational subjects w ill be
taken up.
Both papers through
this office if paid in
advance, per year
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THE COQUILLE RIVER LIN E
Sirs. Fifield & Bandon
Twin Screw, New and Fast
Presbyterian Church
Sunday school every Sunday at
10 a. m; Christian Endeavor in the
evening. Preaching every Sunday
except the fourth Sunday of the
month. Visitors, welcome.
M. E. C oen , Minister
1st Class Passage,
Up Freight,
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good service our motto
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A. F. Estabrook Co., 245 Cal. St., San Francisco
J. H. JOHNSTON, Agent, Bandon, Oregon
Butter Wrappers for sale at
office.
this
S S. ELIZABETH
Coquille River Transportation
Co.’s Schedule
Arrives
Leaves
Coquille
Bandon
8:30 a m
Coquille, / 6:00 a m
3;00 p m
j 1.00 p ru
i0:00 a m
Dispatch, 7:00 a m
4:00 p m
F avorite.
1:30 p m
Leaves
Arrives
Bandon
Coquille
7:30 a m
iO.SO a m
Favorite,
11.30 a m
3.00 a m
Coquille, ç 4.00 p id
5.30 p in
5.00 p m
Dispatch, 1.00 p n>
The Coquille connects with the
traius at Coquille for Marshfield and
Myrtle Point.
The np-river passengers can cotu-
to Bandon on the Favorite and have
three hours here in which to do their
rading and other business.
NEW STATE-ROOMS INSTALLED
Eight Day Service Between the Coquille River and
San Francisco
a First-class Passenger Fare,
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$7.50
I Freight Rates,
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$3 on Up Freight
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J. E. WALSTIIO.M. Agent, Bandon, Oregon.
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E. & E. T. Kruse, owners and managers, 24 California St., San Francisco.
Stmr. Wiliielmina
N. WAGNER, Commanding.
Coos Bay and Bandon twice a week
Connecting with Steam Ship Alliance at Marshfield.
information of
Full
J. E. WALSTROM, Agent, Bandon
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