Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-12-12 | Page 31 | Jack Frost is Hard on Roads

JACK FROST IS UDONK Joined With4 Merry Sunshine. Their Pranks Ruin Good Highways Jack FY OS I and Merry Sunshine are; wrinkling the brows of highway en-1 glneers and cOn trad tore. Their pranks, i.r ruining expensive hard -surfaced i and paved highways. During the winter months, frost penetrates deep under the road sur- i face, freezing and re-freexlng .the sub- i soil numerous times, Then, just like freezing water breaks the water pipe, the auh-boil bulge up and erueks the surface of the highway. Kalu and slush seep through these cracks. Pre see again, and tin- process of destruction de-struction goo- merrily on. When spring conies. the final touches are put on the breaking up of the road The spring lains rush through the yawning cracks and wab aWfly the BUb-SOil, leaving hollow shell. The warm sunshine aids in the destruction, drying the surface and making 11 brittle It's no time then until the mad crumbles away under the heavy traffic impacts. Highway engineers declare that rapidly Increasing highway travel is focuolng the attention of road building build-ing experts to this underlying cause I of highway destruction. They say that governmental and private agtn- I cles have, in the past ten years, lost sin.it of adequate sub-grade soil treat- 1 ment In their eagerness to produce bard. w ar-reslstihg surface for highways. Men prominent In highway development, develop-ment, say "experts, now reiognl'.e the urgent need of spending the necessary time and money to build proper road foundations and drainages before expensive ex-pensive stretches of highway are constructed. con-structed. Searching study and analysis analy-sis of sub-soils will figure more prominently prom-inently In future road building than I any other phase of the work, they say.