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Show I ADOPT MARYLAND'S POLICY ON ROADS The California state highway department de-partment has begun a systematic widening wid-ening of state highways in many parts of the state and has adopted the Maryland policy of surfacing some r.f its concrete roads with asphalt. California has also begun work on a considerable mileage of bituminous macadam. In Glenn county three and one-half miles of road will be of bituminous macadam. five inches thick and 20 feet wide. Five miles of concrete road in Placer county will be surfaced with three inches oi asphalt. The same treatment will be accorded three miles between Fairfield Fair-field and Vacavllle in Solano county In Sonoma county, three miles north and one and one-quarter miles south from the Petaluma city limits, a total distance of four and one-half miles of concrete road will be widened to 20 feet and surfaced with asphalt. Four and one-half miles of concrete road in Santa Clara county, near Tarn i-dero, i-dero, will also be surfaced with asphalt. as-phalt. Similar treatment will b gl n sixteen miles of i oncrete roadfl in Merced, Madera and Kern counties. |