Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1910 — OILED STREETS. [ARTICLE]

OILED STREETS.

People of Goodland Think Them “The Stuff”—Others Think Too. Goodland’s experiment with oiled streets is proving very popular there and the business men are a unit in saying that they believe they have solved the dust problem satisfactorily in every way. Newton street, nearly a mile in length, has already been covered and Union and Jasper streets will also be oiled. The oil has only been spread on’ the main street about ten days, and it was scarcely dry last Sunday when there was quite .a number of visitors in Goodland from other towns, but everyone expressed themselves as believing that the oil method was the economical and effective way of handling the dust problem, besides greatly preserving the streets on which it is used.

Of course there is quite an odor for a few days from the crude oil, and a little common sense has to be used about tracking it, but it will soon soak in thoroughly and there is no more trouble about dusty streets. One good application does the work for a season, and the cost is but a trifle compared with water sprinkling. The Democrat would like very much to see this method used on the business streets of Rensselaer, feeling confident that betiter results would be obtained and at one-fifth the money now /expended.