Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1910 — OILING SYSTEM [ARTICLE]

OILING SYSTEM

Used on Roads in California Does Away With Drawbacks. In regard to the editorial Saturday on oiled roads has suggested the system of oiling roads used in California, and particularly around Santa Barbara. The road is first plowed, oil is poured into the furrows, then a special road harrow is used, after which more dirt is spread, then rolled, and a second, possibly a third, sprinkling of oil is put on, if necessary. The result is a road something between asphalt and a macadam, which yields to the pressure of wheels and horses’ hoofs, making the mark of the impression, but, like a sponge, resumes its natural smoothness in a shorf time. One can drive for miles* around Santa Barbara when ram has been needed for weeks and not see a sign of dust on the roads or be bothered by an oily dust such as the suburbanites of Cincinnati must endure. Cincinnati Enquirer.-