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Show 'DODGE ADDRESSES THE CONVENTION Good Roads Delegates Listen to a Most Instructive Talk by the Gov-eminent Gov-eminent Superintendent of Road Construction Meeting This Evening in Carnegie Library Lecture Room, After the Trip Over the Cutoff. ' ' ("mobile Club of Utah, an opnrtun-Ity opnrtun-Ity to deliver an addTees on the "Relation "Re-lation of the Automobile to Good Roads," Meeting This Evening. The prossalc subject of roads nnd road building was agreeably broken with two solos rendered by XI Ism Maud Bcinap, accompanied on the organ or-gan by S. F. Whltakcr Miss Pxinap's vocal efforts were welcomed by the delegates with much Hpplausc. A. T. Mltchelson, district engineer, I'nlted States forestry service, was not present and the meeting was adjourned ad-journed without any other business being transacted. The meeting of this evening will be called to order at 7'.",0 Sn the lecture room ol the Carnegie library. Judge Howell, in announcing the evening session, stated thut the greater por-llou por-llou of the time will be taken up In hearing the reports of the delegates from the various counties. Ton mln-n mln-n ies will be given to Mr. Podge In which to discuss the width of reads. The secon.l day of the Good Roads tonventlon which opened this inoni-In inoni-In In the Tabernacle at about 10;. 10, shows a laiK'T number 01 d legates lroient. The addresses given at the morning session were more to the Toint and of a more practical nature th;iu those of yesterday. The principal prin-cipal talk was made by J D. Dodge of Ohio. nup't Intendent of road construction construc-tion In tho office of public roads. Washington, IX C. This ntiornoon tho delegate made the excursion to Mid-lake, Mid-lake, through the courtesy of the Souhern Pacific railroad. Mr. Dodge Is a man thoroughly familiar fa-miliar with all forms of road building build-ing and he Id also a sneaker with the ability to put the technic of the process pro-cess Into simple an.1 Interesting language. lan-guage. His speech was in many ways ft revelation In the art of road construct con-struct Ion, and was listened to with rupt attention by every delegate. Excellent Address. "I will not tell you how vo get the money to build good roads,' he said, in opening bis uddross. "Thvre are many different methods of obtaining money to make roads. You might se-cure se-cure aid from the federal government, i from the Mate, from the county or ' from ;iny other source, and It would all amount to the sam? In the end. It would be tho people who paid the bill. It Is lor thU reason that I will not concern myself with tb method of procuring funds. I believe you can hnst handle that yourselves, for you know more about the financial resources re-sources ol your particular localities. And obtaining money is not a matter to generalize upon; it requires specific action, and I leae It to you. "'! will talk flrrt of macadamized roads. This form of road bulldi i? takes It-s name from Macadam, and according ac-cording to this premier road builder It meant making a roadway out of broken pieces cf stone placed upon a driveway, to the depth of twelve or eighteen Inches. In fact eighteen Inches of broken rock was necessary In order to make a solid surface, as the stone packed down to a twelve Inch thickness. Mncadan said that as a gaii-e for the size of the rock pieces h would use a man's month. That would seem like a very iincer-tnnl iincer-tnnl gauce but he meant that the pieces of stone should be about two Inches in diameter He used no filler fill-er with which to Interlock the fragments frag-ments of slrne and he had In his tlino no steam rollers. He had to place hip broken rock on the road and then wait until the narrow wheels of vehicles vehi-cles smoothed the surfac". There were always ruts cut Into the road while It was .being 'Tolletr In this way anj the making of ouch a road required many months. Many Good Materials. "Macadam never realized the ad vantage of some gooj filler to help weld together his broken rock and he never realized that, there were many different kinds of material which were equally as good as rock lor the making mak-ing of roads. Today we make good roads which are commonly called macadamized roads out of arlous materials Good roads are made In b. nie parts of the country out of oyster shells and in other districts from the tdag or waste product of mines and smelters Rnd steel mills. "I bellee that slag with a binder of tar Is the very best material with which to make a road. Hut sand, clay, asphalt and a number of other materials may lx? used a-s a binder with slag end good resuHa obtained. The macadamized road is destroyed from the surface and It is absolutely esentlal that the surface be well mado and well roller!. The steam roller i to the road builder what the trowel is to tho maxon and it must be used with the snme care. No Guess-Work Necessary, "I wih to especially caution every road builder against taking any chance with his material. It is no longer necessary to assume anv risks as to the value of material. Any one can send a simple of road building material ma-terial to the office of public roads at Washington. D C, and it will be ther? analyzed and Its exact value as to durability ascertained and reiorted to the sender." The speaker told of the effect on good roads made by the advent of the automobile and predicted that the nutomoblle wouM finally supersede 1ho horse In almost every line where the horso Is still u.-.ed. He gave the ruitomobile movement much credit for the impetus which the good roads movement Is now receiving in many parts of the country. Mr Dodge was forced to cut his talk short la order to give W. D Rlchel. o fSalt Iake City, manager of tho Au- |