Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1914 — Large Traction Engines Damage Concrete Culverts. [ARTICLE]

Large Traction Engines Damage Concrete Culverts.

Goodlaud Herald. Township Supt Louis A. Spaulding, of the Grainy township roads, inforanjs us that the large twenty and twenty-four ton rood engines received here this week by Evans, Van/Natha a/nd 00. are too large and heavy to travel over the cement bridges and culverts in the township. These large engines in passing aver the bridges are sure to loosen the eyebeams and /this greatly weakens them and in a few yearns they go down. Geo. Gilman, who is connected with the company, states that the bridges and culverts being built now are not re-Lnforced strong enough to stand the weight of the engines. The company is building several roads in this section and they have equipped themselves to handle the work as quick as possible. The large gnavd pit over in G/aJ'boa township is being equipped With the latest machinery to load the ten ton gravel cars hauled by the engines. When they complete the road building here they expect to do work in the northeastern part of the State and over in Illinois,where the great road building movement is under way? -