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Show EXPERIMENT WITH OILING ROADS The city administration may be Induced In-duced to make a test treatment by the application of oil on a block or two of macadam road. Other cities have successfully used oil. The Seattle Post Intelligencer rays there is no question about tho claim that fast-going automobiles auto-mobiles injure public highways. Experiments Ex-periments made by the federal authorities au-thorities on some of the highways leading lead-ing out from the national capital, and the studies imd experiences of good roads experts in every part of the country, have conclusively shown thai the rapid driving of tho heavier -luto-mobiles over highways results In sell-ons sell-ons injury lt the roads. Oil will tend to protect roads against much of the injury thus caused, and will at tho fame time minimize the dust evil on the highways during tho dry seasou. Properly surfaced with crude oil cf the 1 jgh quaMty, the binder of public ro.uls would not be so apt to loosen unier rbe piejeure of excessive speeding, speed-ing, and the county should at least try this method of preventing injury' to the highways Ai. intelligent experiment with oil might lead to a considerable stviug in the cost of maintenance. |