Show I How Is State Road t to be he Built taken As some discussion has place regarding the type of road to b be constructed from Pigeon HoH Hollow w to Manti Mariti during the coming summer Mr Wilson of the thc portland Cement association has contributed the thc following data rega regarding ding concrete high high- ways During the During the past year the state of Utah contracted fort for the con construction of 25 miles of faced concrete roads as against only miles miJe of f other othe types of hard surfaced construction These were state highways over which heavy and unrestricted traffic was to be operated and I does not include certain certai other milage within city limits Utah is not alone lonc in its preference for this type of construction however for the great states of New w York I Illinois California Pennsy Pennsylvania Michigan Indiana Wisconsin Maryland Marylan I l. l Deleware Washing- Washing West Virginia Colorado and a number humber of others building concrete concrete concrete con con- crete roads in approximately the same ratio for tor instance instance in in- stance contracted six hundred and nine forty miles of pavement pavement pavement pave pave- ment during the past year five hundred miles of which was str straight i ht con concrete r te tew w while every foot of the remaining milage was was put upon a concrete base Loads are becoming heavier heavier hea hea- vier every everyday day and as as s a conse onse- consequence conse- conse quence must b be built to carry them Certain people are suggesting a loose rock base with a two vo inch bituminous asphalt asphalt asphalt as as- as- as covering for fog the state road through Sanpete county This was suggested also for Utah County but state officials chang changed ed the specific specifications and are now building a standard un un concrete road 18 f feet et wide all the way through she Jie county Ephraim has the proof of the aground efficiency of concrete roads In two strips now in use upon her Main Street These strips h have ve been down for something something something some some- some some- thing like six years They have never never as yet had one cent expended expended expended ex ex- ex- ex upon them for care care are or maintenance and are are comparatively iv ly in first class condition to to- to day The he un surfaced concrete road require less for maintenance than any of the so bo call called d hard haicl surfaced types type It io it a perpetual asset inasmuch s us s aft alter after r it has j served a as ay a wearing surface for Twenty years or more more it serves is s s a base or f foundation for any manner ot of resurfacing that m may maye y Ie e un All this is being deman demonstrated right here in your own front yard you dont don't have to take any anyone's ones one's word for it you it-you you have the proof There is one ne hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred and fifty-eight fifty million square yards of this pavement in iii the United States to-day to and acid fifty two fifty two million of this was placed only last year practically half as much as all other types pavement combined A |