. Water & sewage works . in 20 years from date ofissue of first installment. The thirdsource of revenue is the state, and is basedupon the acceptance of a road built ac-cording to a standard set by the statehighway department. This state rewardis paid irrespective of original cost, andamounts to $1,000 per mile on concreteand macadam roads: $750 a mile on gravel-stone roads, and $500 per mile on gravelroads. Wayne county is building roadsof a much higher standard than that setby the state. Heavy traffic conditionsand freedom from excessive maintenancecharges fully warrant the higher standardof
. Water & sewage works . in 20 years from date ofissue of first installment. The thirdsource of revenue is the state, and is basedupon the acceptance of a road built ac-cording to a standard set by the statehighway department. This state rewardis paid irrespective of original cost, andamounts to $1,000 per mile on concreteand macadam roads: $750 a mile on gravel-stone roads, and $500 per mile on gravelroads. Wayne county is building roadsof a much higher standard than that setby the state. Heavy traffic conditionsand freedom from excessive maintenancecharges fully warrant the higher standardof construction, and mean an ultimatelower cost than that attained by manyother counties in Michigan. Auinist. MACHINERY AND SUPPLIES 181 In the construction of our concreteroads the first work is, of course, to prop-erly grade and prepare the sub-grade. This is done with Port Huron steamhauling engines, spreading dump cars androad rollers. When grades are unusually steep andhauls very short, road scrapers are PORT roliir luiuliiKj Kcan/itr. We sometimes find it necessary to userooter plows. For breaking up old roadbeds, for reconstruction. Port Huronscarifiers are employed. Chimney Withstood Severe WindStrain By Roy F. Wilcox of J. F. Wilcox & Sons,Council Bluffs. Iowa. Our attention has been called to yourmention of the fact that our concretechimney withstood the recent cyclonewhich swept this section, March 23, may be of interest to you to know thatthis storm swept everything in its path,that it did great damage to our plant,which, in fact, was right in the center ofthe storm. Our buildings were practi-cally destroyed. One of the large brickbuildings, near our chimney, was crum- pled into a pile, but the chimney is asstraight and in as perfect condition aswhen first erected. It stood the storm bet-tor than any structure on the place andas far as we can determine was not dam-aged in the least. This chimney waserected for us by the Weber ChimneyCompan
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