Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1915 — Some Intelligent Road Repairing. [ARTICLE]

Some Intelligent Road Repairing.

The Range Line road from Remington north to the Jordan tp., line is in the best condition at present we have seen it for several years, if not the best ever. Some comparatively inexpensive repairs have lately been made—filling up the chuckholes and ruts with fine crushed rock—-and the roadway is smooth and nice. It took but little material to do this, and therefore the expense was slight. - The same system should be used on all our stone roads, when a chuck-hole or a rut appears, fill it with fine crushed stone. Dop’t put cn a wagonload where only a peck is needed, and don’t use coarse rock for the purpose by any means or go to the unnecessary expense of covering over an entire stretch of road. Keep the ruts and chuck-holes filled and we will have our stone roads in fine condition and at about one-fourth the cost of the old method. Mr. Samuels, who lives on the east side of the Range Line road, just over the south line of Jordan tp., has oiled a stretch of a few hundred feet of this road along by his house, to keep down the dust, and the road there is absolutely perfect. The Democrat believes the county commissioners should order the rest of the road oiled to Remington, as an experiment, and keep an account of the cost and the expense of repairs, for the next year on this section to ascertain if it is not a mighty good investment, It will cost but«yttle to try out and is wort| the trying. By the way, we notice that washed gravel is being used or repairs on the west half of the RemingtonGoodland road in Jasper county, and it is seemingly superior to stone. It has been used on the roads in the west part of Newton county for several years and gives fine satisfaction, we are told.