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Show ROADS FROM SAND ASPHALT Government and State Engineers Out For Investigation. The stnte road through the I'inlnli cotintrv mid xnilh through nil Ilnst-eni Ilnst-eni I tnh mnj be paved with Mind ns nhnlt. Wnllcr X. Fnckstnd, the senior liighwn.v engineer of the t'nilcd latea bureau of public roads, Levi Muir. Jr, chief inspector for the state road coiiiiiiissioii, and J IC tillis, dmlncl nnd engiiuer nt Price, were in Vernal Ver-nal Inst week for samples of the sand nsphnlt lung just west of thnt town, to be sent to Washington, I). (' , for analysis. Incidentally they made n checkup of the use of sand n halt by Vernal eitv, both ns sidewalk nnd street Hiving nintennl. Tho Mik walks nf Vcninl were paved with sntid nsphnlt ns-phnlt nbotit twent.v-tuo mrs ngo, nnd todnv show no noticeable wear or disintegration The nttempt to ps.e n block of Main street resulted nit-sntisfactnry, nit-sntisfactnry, as the nsphnlt was not honied up first, and henco could not bo smoothed down juwpcrlv. lint the nsphnlt, though very rough nnd wavy, withstood tho wiar of henvy traffic nnd nil mniiiicr of weather conditions, mid was apparently In ns good slinpc when it was removed this summer ns it wns when first put down more limit twenty Jenra ngo. The experience of Vcrnnl city is, in the opinion nf 1'rickntnd, vcryvnltinb'e datn for the determination whether or not the Mind asphalt Is suitable for high w a v paving. The supplj of sand nsliphalt nut there is unlimited, nnd n vein of it sixty feet high nnd of unknown un-known width lies within half n mile of the stnto road nnd other deposits nre found scattered nit over Lintnh county. Another vcrj lniHirtnnt local fnctor in the stntc road paving 'nni paign was discovered that there arc unlimited quantities of hard stone ensily available for crushing, so that in enso it is deemed ndvisnhlc to adopt n crushed stone nnd clay binder tvpc of hnrdsurfneing for the present, the work enn go forwnrd nny time. The presinre of these millennia in closo proximity to tho stntc nmils may nid in the early detennlnntlon to pnvo with emshed stone for tho present pres-ent nnd Inter surfnre with wntt asphalt as-phalt The program in Uiutnli county embraces fourteen miles of pavln,' between Vernal nnd Kort Ducliesut. |