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Show TH!M ROADS ARE EXPENSIVE Ordinary Rock Surface Undor Motor 7 raffic" Coming in ,lcxt Few Years. MacAdam was years ahead of his age and years behind this one. The builders of the Appiau Way knew more about building a road for'u motortruck mo-tortruck than MacAdam. strange as it amy appear. It is Ihe general op'nion inning road builders an opinion ..really quickened and altered by the .car thai the light stone road, he it surfaced or oil treated in what way you will, is not the road to build in the face of an avalanche of m tor-trucks tor-trucks that is coining in the next few yisirs. The motorcar brought oil to the road as a necessity. The water bond, which worked so well with iron tires and iron shod hoofs, is useless against the suction of the pneumatic tire, lint the oiled stone road that holds the :i.()iH)-iour.d car with ease will not carry the five-loo truck and 'list. The railroad builders have found dm: for heavy trafiV pays to use the heaviest steel rails, the finest wood for ties and the r.est broken sione. and plenty of It, for ballast. |