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Show r ySciEXTIFICALLY BUILT fie state of New Jersey now con ! six miles of raodway said to Ik .finest stretch of transcontinental ;t 1 between New York Sity and San rancisco. it is the most recently Jmpleted section of the Lincolr highway, and carries the heaviesi dyadic of any part of the 3,300 milt jute. I Tli is stretch of road is 29 feel Vide. Most of it has a base nine inch-g inch-g thick and an asphalt surfacing &o inches thick, Tourists are learning a good deal Jese summer days about compare-t.-e road construction in different V-tes. Some motorists go from com-fmities com-fmities where the roads are nar-'he nar-'he paving poor and constantly fueed of repairing, into a state fell is a network of good highways I only near its big cities, but fai I in woods and mountains and the Bing lands. When they get back je again, they are likely to start tiring as to the cause of bad roads heir own state. Wyoming State 'nine. he eleven inch pavement such as t in New Jersey is too- expensive uncessary for the long stretches jnarcely settled country in West-I West-I states where roads are being r She principle adopted on this niod- J i envy traffic, New Jersey road, ever, is the same that has been ng satisfactory results and sav-f sav-f the taxpayers not only in first V of road construction but in the Itenance costs. has been demonstrated beyond fite that a road base or surface wis nonresiiient, non shock ab-Vig ab-Vig and unable to cushion the ft of traffic will crystalize and g;rate long before it should, foments by the U S. govern-five govern-five shown that 7750 pounds $Vheel of a truck traveling at f per hour.Hlelivers a blow of Jnunds in a drop of one inch. p" "lfliny wonder that scientific road construction requires a shock absorbing absorb-ing base or wearing surface in pavement pave-ment construction. |