Show Water Mixing System Improves County Asphalt A new method of watering at the Uintah Uintah Uin Uin- tah County Asphalt Ill HI ige asphalt plant has increased ed product on and Improved the quality of the popular oil sand road surfacing material produced at the plantA plant A FOUR inch one mile long water waterline waterline waterline line has been constructed by the county to the asphalt mine pit The line lacked sufficient pressure to flow Clow up the grade during the period of greatest demand by Vernal City so a pressure pump was Installed installed in In- stalled to insure a steady sui supply ly to the plant By continuously soaking the native asphalt with water oyster it breaks up into finer particles as it is strip mined by dozers with rippers and discs The watered water ed material cools the heating healing effect of the ripper teeth as they turn up the asphalt Before using the water method a rip ripper cr tooth would burn up In one hour of constant use now they last much longer reported the County Com missioners THE ASPHALT is first dug up and loosened and then broken up in small I pieces with a disc then it is bulldozed ed with a mixture of sand and pushed over a ledge into waiting trucks The goes directly onto road surfaces sur sur- ur faces without any other treatment The asphalt has very little overburden den and has been core drilled to feet until the material became so 60 oil saturated it would collapse The material material ma ma- seems to get richer the deeper the excavation g goes es reported retried mine work work- men mm The material is mined exclusively by bythe bythe bythe the county and sold bold to Vernal City and private contractors It Is sold to for 2 50 per yard at the mine last year over yards of asphalt were produced THE COMMISSIONERS reported that since the new method of increasing the water soaking of the as asphalt halt the roads apt appear ear much smoother and are arc easier to lay Almost l all of the county roads have been surfaced with asphalt over tho the years giving the county the reputation of having more of Its roads paved than any other county in the state Private driveways and parking areas throughout the county have been surfaced with the native product at a very nominal cost |