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Show THE : SPOILING ROADS it t -- i ib cdm-missio- h to coyer every cbncrfete r6ad both old and hew, with a skin-thiccovering of tarvia and sand screenings. In fact, the first two concrete roads to be built in the state; between the Si alt Lake-Davi- s county lihd and Bountiful, have already been so covered. ,W6rk has also commenced oh. the beautiful stretch of concrete highway between Kaysviile and Lay-tobuilt three years ago. The cost of covering the concrete roads in this fasion is costing just of about $2,000 per mile, per width. Such a thin covering, under normal traffic conditions, cannot last over five years the average life being about four years. California has practically adopted such construction, but its climatic conditions are considerably more favorable than they are here. Reports from people who have returned from California and who have made a study of roads in that state would indicate that this skin-thiccovering of tar and sand has a tendency to wear out quickly, in patches. If we assume five years to be the maximum life of this covering of tar, and its first cost $2,000 per mile, per of width, there will result an annual maintenance cost of $400 per mile, per year. On the other hand, from available data and practically every state highway department in the country has been heard from in the matter the average cost of maintaining the concrete roads in the usual fashion has in practically no case exceeded $100 per mile, per year. In other words,, the Utah state road commission, by planning to cover the concrete roads as they are now doing, would Increase the maintenance cost at least four-fold- . That the normal maintenance cost of concrete is about $100 per mile is indicated by the following figures: Average Cost of Maintenance $23.63 State of Connecticut 10.00 State of Delaware 42.00 State of Illinois 131.42 State of Maryland State of Michigan, Wayne Co. 37.00 100.00 State of New Jersey 140.00 State of New York 73.92 t ate of Wisconsin 85.00 State of Washington In most cases the above costs include the cost of maintaining the side ditches and shoulders, and therefore the complete costs of represent k . n, , 18-fo- ot k 18-fo- 15 Oil afid screenings Offered a tractive resistance Of 49.2 pounds pdr ton; while the unsurfaced concrete road showed but an average of 283 pounds. Ifi other woi'ds, a load which required but one horse on the surfaced concrete would require two horses on the One Surfaced with tar, Covering of the concrete roads with tar will increase .the danger of drivvehiing either motor or' horse-draw- n cles. A bituminous Surface when wet is very slippery; a concrete surface is gritty and offers a safe foothold for horses, a good traction for rubber-tire- d vehicles. Did you ever notice a team ot horses drawing a heavy load up a relatively steep hill where there was an asphaltic or other bituminous form of pavement on either side of a street car track right of way, and a hard surface such as granite block of conThe crete, in the right of way? horses will take to the hard surface in every case. Is there nothing else the Utah State Road commission can do with the coal tar products of the state than to waste them by transforming our modern, hard surface concrete roads into obsolete soft surfaces? Modem traffic demands hard surfaced highways. phaltic the intention of the road CITIZEN I PARAMOUNT -- EMPRESS I Watch the big electric sign, Comer Main and Second South. 5 ATTRACTIONS WEEK SEPTEMBER maintenance. A skin covering of Tarvia and sand will increase the tractive resistance of the road surface, and therefore materially detract from the efficiency or the highway. How Much Does In a bulletin, Your Team Pull? issued by the State Automobile association in 1917, which is a report of tesis made by that organization in conjunction with the University of California to determine the tractive resistance of various road surfaces, it was determined that a concrete highway surinch pf as- faced .by. tbrqe-ighth- s - Cal-dfc'orii- ia That plants eat and drink in their own way through the soil :s a well known fact. But in South America is a species of orchid which takes a drink whenever it feels thirsty simply by letting down a tube into the water. When not in use, the tube is coiled up on the top of the plant. In Mexico there is a plant that likes to change its attire three times a day just like any fastidious person it is white in the morning, red at noon, and blue in the evening. At times it gives out a very strong perfume and at other times it is absolutely odorless. There is another odd Mexican plant the odor or which causes people to lose rneir way anu makes their sense of direction nil until the smell ceases. Central India owns a tree whose leaves are heavily charged with electricity and merely to touch them gives a person a distinct shock. In Brazil similar electric power is put to lighting purposes. Within the immediate vicinity of such a plant a per-- ' son can see well enough to read the finest print and another is so luminous that it can be piamiy distinguished in the darkest nights for a. distance of more than a mile. But the most wonderfully constituted plant of Brazil is the one. It is a small fungus about th size of a pea which projects a bait to a distance of several Inches with a distinctly audible report. E 14-2- 0. 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