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Show ASPHALT ASSOCIATION M TESTS ROAD SURFACES Hon with other interest! contemplat- JH Ing testing road surface In an effort I H to discover the type or' road which will cause the least amount of wear SJBJBJJ on automobile Ures and reduce the present $1,000,000,000 annual tire bill. An average annual outlay of $125 oni ot eight million of elghl million automoldles un1 1 , trucks for thirty-two million tires M makes a total cost for tires J1.000.- H 000.000. This s far is excess of the amount 1 ; of money expended on highways each BH per cent could be effected. It would re-, re-, suit in a sum which capitalized at i per cent would equal J 000, 000,0 00. 1 Motor Life. |