Show CRUDE OIL CIL ON DIRT ROADS II 11 to I 1 sold Is lo 10 mak disks them hard MJ 0 li and ad arre from D 4 and 1111 mad d la in the winter of 1804 1694 near grand valley a small plug was pvn forced not nut ol 01 BU all oil lino line aad a quantity of 0 oil spurted on oil the road says ay the oil city derrick alq snow wai was thoroughly saturated with oil for about cue one rod in diameter the oil visa spread over the road by the fact fi ct of hone horses and the action of sleigh runners for or tho distance die tance of abort foul rode rods tho the road roads in this valley are tire clay bottom and alry danty ill in dry mathei cud and muddy in wet aud and iti its no unusual thing to uv dust from 8 to 0 inches deep and raud mud from 10 to SO 20 inches ID in the this I 1 it of road rend and the crude oil referred to have attracted my attention ever since for when the dry weather cather re turned and dotty dusty road roads wa vats tho ball bail ic ica salutation cf every cue you mel met this particular four rodi rods if cf road were at u free from do it as a well kept brick trick pov cd street au sm I 1 after a vucu UK IN dusty ads were converted into bed beds ol 01 mud this section of roud road wan wasi its a dry 01 if it no rain bad fallen the writer bat explained the nou to man observers who were ignorant of the bisare at and after the action of ehret summers aud wi titers there is in faill to it be teen the evidence of the be pre erring erving qualifier qualities of cruda oil now accey clug the foregoing observation observations ai truth is it lot eafe safe to conclude that a hope for a sc lution of the greatest publio public questions has a en on which tc rubt a hope in the employment of crude oil foi fot good rend rondo e no change need bo be made in ito acde of construction ruction now ID in general use the roadbed read bed should bo be properly shaped with jun chinery and immediately after worling and forming and while the earth is ICOM leme and be bat adapted for iho the of p oil ci the he oil be applied after the Is manner sanner of street streets the quantity 0 of I 1 oil to the rod of road can only be determined by ex peri ments and atcas the wn er a opinion based cm on ii Is that one barrel tarrel of uil oil to each three rod rods of 0 read mad will suffice thin this if the niter hai isai not erred in figures will be oil to tb the depth of cue one third of an all inch current price of oil and cost of it applying will wil determine expense of treating a milo mile ol 01 0 road |