Show new way for making roads something new in road ng Is reported from california and becom mended for adoption in the east it Is a method of converting dusty roads into smooth and excellent pathways tor vehicles by the simple process of aprin sprin kling them with petroleum and won ders are said to be accomplished by it recently some of the railways in the eastern states have been improving their road beds by a similar use of mineral oil which being applied with a sprinkler twice a year or oftener serves not only to hold down the dust thus diminishing the disagreeableness nesa of travel by rail but acts as a cement fastening the particles together and making a hard and firm surface sixty barrels forty two gallons each dis tributes tri buted in a fine spray by means of a machine on a cart resembling a street sprinkler will as has been found sut flee tor one mile at first says the sa arday evening post afterward two more applications ot twenty barrels to the mile are made and the road 1 beautifully macadamized to all intents and purposes with a surface as bard as to be dust tree the oil costs only 95 cents a barrel so that the expense for material employed Is but 95 a mile a very moderate price tor transform ing dusty roads into highways smooth and hard as city streets petroleum of the kind known in the east has paraffin as its base but the mineral oil pro deuced in california has for a base as so that it serves particularly well tor the purpose described the roads treated being in a manner paved with asphalt |