Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1912 — STREETS WILL BE OILED. [ARTICLE]

STREETS WILL BE OILED.

Advantages of Dust Laying Product Seen by Hammond Board of Public Works. At a mass meeting of property owners with the board of public works, the city engineer and the ctity attorney, in the superior court house, last night, a resolution was passed instructing the board to advertise for bids for oil sprinkling only, as advocated by the Times for the past four years. The meeting was not as large as it should have been, the weather and social attractions having been a deterrent to a tenge gathering. City attorney John A. Gavit presided as chairman. There was not a single advocate for the water sprinkling. The sentiment generally was so overwhelmingly against water that it was taken for. granted by many people who did hot go to the meeting last night that oil would be selected. The board of public works will let the contract next Monday, and will in all . probability give it to John Probl, having received the lowest bid from him. Mr. Prohl’s bid was >33 for each 10,000 square feet, the specifications providing one-half gallon of road oil for each square yard of pavement for the first application, and one-third of a gallon for the second application. The price bld provides for two applications la •season.—Hammond Times.