Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1914 — Road Construction. [ARTICLE]

Road Construction.

A fe w suggestions; about the proper construction of a roadbed may not b« amiss, To begin with the surface sbould be made very crowning, for it immediately begins to flatten by .use, and will Continue to grow more and more so all the time if nothing is done to prevent it. But R ean .be held it good shape by occasional scraping. The scraping will also do a great deal.towards filling up the small depressions, which are the real beginning of all trouble. But some new material must be carefully put in by hand where needed—not too " much, as that will create two holes, where before thdre was but one. Use more brains and less stone! A good road cannot be made without hard thinking. Keep in mind all the time tnat you are fighting water! You will notice that the roads always remain in the best condition on the grades where the tyater can easily run away, and you will also observe that they always -grow bad first in the valleys afi’d level paces, and that it is because the roadbeds, are flat, or perhaps even holowing with little dams of sod on the' l sides so that the water stands there until it soaks in or dries up, instead of running away quickly, as it should,- and w;ould If tie surface was kept crowding and the Dinows kept f:om forming, wlifcph act as canals to cqjpduct the vater down into the lowest part of the road, where mud and destruction join hands in tljei: evil work.