Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1911 — Prepare the Foundation. [ARTICLE]

Prepare the Foundation.

•All roads built upon the old without due preliminary preparation, will, .soon reach the hammer and anvil stage. Even the foundertion course of a macadam road cannot be forced into an old gravel or shell bed so that it will have a perfect bearing, with no tendency to creep. The fallacy of supposing it possible to secure adhesion between other materials lees hard and old road surfaces shop!* be apparent to all, and the practice. lnstead of being encouraged, as it A should »e denounced. —Good Roads. :— mnmK