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Show h j; u I liisres - I li ' sometlam f r ii aisom IMem J . ,( U - j K package l-'J T M KAtJJ S't' i If HAIR'S1 Your Prde i -. vvr . I i Sold 7Vr?r j Z. C. M. I. Drug Co., Special Agent Uiinrlaced and Non-Reinforced Endorsed --"by -the Nation9s Best Authorities Read the Following Three Letters -From Three Bi .Commtieities STATE OF WISCONSIN; COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, and WAYNE COUNTY, MICHIGAN WISCONSIN HIGHWAY COMMISSION COOK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS MADISON -. May l7,1919. 325 Courthouse, V tah Manufacturers ' Association, t.vn Reams Building, iSalt Lake City, Utah. VnlCagO Gentlemen: . ilay 15, 1919- i in rcplv to. vour letter of May S, will state that of the tvpes mentioned WE ARE BUILDING PRACTICALLY NONE Mr- ;Th" S- Earley, Executive Secretary, . i EXCEPT THE CONCRETE Utah Manufacturers' Association, I Kcgardinsj concrete, would state as follows: "We have no base under it other than the soil that happens to be there. bait Lake City, Utah. For thickness we are now using in general seven inches at the side and eight inches at the center. For width we are using Dear Sir-either Sir-either sixteen or eighteen feet as a general practice. For road purposes we aro not using reinforcement. - e Wc have been building concrete roads in this state since 1912, and are building an ever-increasing amount of them. The In reply to your letter of May 9, in which you ask questions concerning cost of building and cost of maintenance or reason for this is that wo are plentifully supplied witli materials, and a brick road cannot compete with a concrete road. various types of roads: However, wo believe a brick road would be entirely satisfactory. m, , ., , . , . , , . . , ; . SEVERAL OF THE KINDS YOU MENTION ARE PATENTED PAVEMENTS, AND WE WILL NOT BUILD A PAT- The cost per mile for concrete road pavement tins year runs from about $1.95 to J2.0o per square yard This is for ENTED PAVEMENT IN OUR ST 4.TE Portland cement concrete road, 1-2-3 V2 mix, seven inches thick at the edge and eight inches thick at the center, and eignteen Regarding our opinion on the "various types, I believe that we might well combine several .of them, in that Topeka is foet wide. built in one coursc without reinforcement and without joints, really a bituminous concrete, while Tarvia is a bituminous macsdam or bituminous concrete, depending on how you lay it. Portland cement costs approximately $2.03 net per barrell, f . o. b. railroad. Bitulithie is a patented bituminous concrete. Topeka mix, which is a very close approximation of bit u 1 it hie, though not pat- . ented, is a very satisfactory pavement under many conditions, as is the Tarvia, although we believe neither of them is as sat- Sand costs approximately $1.30 per cubic yard, f. 0. b. railroad. OUfe CONCRETE EOADS ARE COSTING US ANYWHERE FROM $10.00 TO $80.00 PER MILE FOR THE MAINTE- GraVCl 01 StDe CStS 'ard' ' NANCE OF THE ROAD ITSELF, with some additional expense for shoulders and ditch work, which would be about the THIS TYPE OF ROAD IS BUILT ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY IN THIS COUNTY, OF PLAIN CONCRETE in one-course same as for any other typo of read. construction, without joints and WITHOUT REINFORCING, with the exception of places where local conditions demand it, Very truly yours, such as over sewer excavations or other special conditions. ' . - WISCONSIN HIGHWAY COMMISSION. NO PATENTED PAVEMENT, SUCH AS BITULITHIC, HAS BEEN LAID BY COOK COUNTY. HJK-KOG By (Signed) H. J. Kuelling, Asst. Engineer. From yQur question concerning Tarvia road I presume you mean Tar-Macadam. One or two miles of tar-bound macadam roads have been built in the county and have proved totally inadequate to bear the heavy traffic. The road in question had , . seven-inch waterbound macadam base, with a three-inch wearing course, bound with approximately two gallons of tar per square yard. It cost about $1.75 per square yard. B0AP..D OF Topeka Mix and Bituminous Concrete, both on macadam base and on concrete base, have been laid in this county. C Ol J1MTY RDAn POMMmTO'MFlr? Today bituminous concrete two and one-half inches thick, on macadam base eight inches thick, costs practically as much ,ss 1 i olWHiJkJlVnJLJli- n9 a con(,'rete road, and, we ieel, is somewhat inadequate for the excessively heavy traffic which is developing on our roads ; WAYNE COUNTY in the vicinity of Chicago. r I . Edward N. nines, Detroit (Chairman) John S. Haggcrty, Detroit William F. Butler, Trenton Two inches of bituminous concrete on a seven-inch concrete base costs this year in the neighborhood of $2.45 to $2.5j per square yard. This road will undoubtedly sustain any traffic we have, but is. rather high in first cost. tahR r"1-1' li' "'jr-CrS ' VtSLak C't U h Detroit, Mich., May 16, 1919 This county does not lay any bituminous macadam or any more bituminous concrete on macadam base. earns ji 1 mg, a a -1, 1 , ta lumil red fifty miles of roads have been paved in this county in the last five years, mostly on roads radiating outward Gentlemen: from Chicago. Several of these roads have extremely heavy truvk traffic anil a large volume of lighter traffic. On two roads traffic counts show approximately 7000 vehicles per dav. Nearly all our traffic is rubber-tired traffic. BEEN BUILdUg ''CONCRETE OUR CONCRETE ROADS SEEM VERY DURABLE AND SHOW PRACTICALLY NO WEAR. Numerous cracks aPn Fol THE NDLING ol JuR VY ?OToT TRUCKING 10. 0 mneof een but if these are kept properly tilled with tar or asphalt, aside from the appearance, no damage seems to be done to including grading, drainage structures and the pavement, -inis varied between $3U,00U and $35,000 per mile. Five years ago the road. ... same type of road could have been built for $ 15.000 to $i,000 jt mile. Bituminous concrete on a concrete base seems to stand the traffic equally as well as a concrete road. We lav nothing les than an eight eeu-l'nnt euiierete roadwav. with a thickness of seven inches at the edges and nine inches Bituminous concrete on a macadam base, however, is undoubtedly inadequate to accommodate our traffic, at the center. KxpaiiMon join is are placed every forty feet, consisting of a one-half inch tar felt placed vertically and at right THE COST OF UPKEEP OF THE PAVEMENT ON A CONCRETE ROAD IS APPROXIMATELY $30.00 PER MILE ""'THE 'COST" OF 'mAINTEJT ANCE'FOR THE CONCRETE PAVEMENT ITSELF VARIES FROM $50 TO $100 PER FER YEAR. THE COST OF DUS SJEm EIGHTEEN FOOT CONCRETE MILE DEPENDING UPON THE TRAFFIC ' 1S mv opinion that IT IS ABSOLUTELY; UNNECESSARY TO REINFORCE AN EIGHTEx.N-1 OOi juaixu" For your further informal ion v. e are sending you under separate cover a copy of our last annual report. ROAD except for some especially bad subgrade condition. Vours truiv. Yours vcrv trulv, " BOARD OF.COL'XTY ROAD COMMISSIONERS, (Signed) - B. P. BARKER, VEII-Ai: (Signed) Leroy C. Smith, Engineer -Manager. BDB-IIS , Acting Superintendent of Highways. : CEMENT IMDU STil OF UTAH ' t |