Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1917 — Wood-Block Pavement [ARTICLE]

Wood-Block Pavement

An official Inspection of wood-block pavement laid in Minneapolis during 1906 shows that in only two out of 13 sections were more than 5 per cent of the blocks depressed asunuch as onehalf inch below the general level of the street. The two exceptions were in the heaviest traffic districts of the ~ctiyrgnd one of them showed 13*5 per cent of the blocks depressed as compared with 16.5 per cent in the other made with long-leafed pine and birch showed only 2 per cent of the blocks depressed after ten years’ service.