Deseret Evening News | 1891-07-25 | Page 4 | Drainage of a Grevet Road

Drlns of )rtl llo.d. Too much stress canuot bu i luced on tho proper dratnago of i gra el road. As A sutxeuf ul Canadian engineer an 1 con tructtr says of railroads thironrotwo things nociuiary to the LmlMltU of a trrarel rouli the first Is to drain It, tho soc-t soc-t ud Is to drain It, tho third-well, that 1 to drain It, too. livery foot of gravtl ruad sbould U supplied with kulllcitint dralusgo fadhtl?s to uirry olT at once all water that uuyrom to it, and leau liothlrg to sink Into tho ril beil to of,-r;anl dlslntt jruita It 'Itiodltcheu on itteep gradna noi often iuelal ation tlon, eiM)t tally hi thyey aoils, to pis-tent pis-tent unJtio cutting away aud deepening &f dltuhes and sabviueutly Injury to road bed.