. City of Minneapolis. A review of her growing industries and commercial development, historical and descriptive .. . stern, withwhich he has a contract of aboutone hundred thousand dollars. Hehas been for two years and a halflatterly doing some work for theChicago & Northwestern and theChicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, under Langdon & Co. He has proved himself throughout to be aclear-headed business man, besides being a bridge builder of the highest ability. He has somebeautiful photographs of some of the wooden structures put in by himself MINNEAPOLIS ASPHALT PA VEMENT CO., 309 National Bank of
. City of Minneapolis. A review of her growing industries and commercial development, historical and descriptive .. . stern, withwhich he has a contract of aboutone hundred thousand dollars. Hehas been for two years and a halflatterly doing some work for theChicago & Northwestern and theChicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, under Langdon & Co. He has proved himself throughout to be aclear-headed business man, besides being a bridge builder of the highest ability. He has somebeautiful photographs of some of the wooden structures put in by himself MINNEAPOLIS ASPHALT PA VEMENT CO., 309 National Bank of Commerce Building—The officers of this company are Mr. A. S. Sampson, President, and Mr. C. M. Carpenter, Secretaryand Treasurer. They manufacture a pavement for driveways, sidewalks, alleys, crossings, washways,floors for stables, mills, elevators, warehouses, stores, depots, laundries, steamer and engine houses,dwelling house yards, areas and cellars, from asphalt, which it is claimed is more durable than any kindof stone. There is one thing quite certain about this kind of pavement, viz. : That. makes the 84 RESOURCES OF MINNESOTA. smoothest and most compact roadway of any known material. There is another very imi)ortant featurein it: Being elastic, it reduces the jar on horses hoofs and legs, and they are enabled to travel over itwithout any of the bad results that follow from continued travel over a stone road. It is also the quiet-est material that can be used; this is partly owing to its elasticity and partly to the smoothness of thesurface, and is a great advantage, as it does away with the distressing rattle that is observable more orless in every other kind of pavement. The material from which the pavement is made comes from thecelebrated pitch lake in the Island of Trinidad, and is a formation from vegetable matter similar to thatwhich, in a temperate climate, would result in the formation of coal. This kind of pavement has onlylately been introduced here, but in
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