. Good roads year book. D GRAVEL CO. jNIanufacturers of Materials forMACADAM ROADWAYS MEMPHIS. TENN. 407 The ACME Line OF Road Building Machinery ^^The Machinery of Merit OUR LINE INCLUDES: Steel Frame Rock Crushers, Elevators, Screens, Bins, Engines, Tar Heating Kettles, Oil Sprinkler, Contractors Dump and Spreading Wagons, Road Machines, Wheel and Dump Scrapers, Plows, Etc Send for New Catalogue No. 8 Acme Road Machinery Co. Frankfort, N* Y, BOSTON: 141 Milk Street BALTIMORE, MD.: 449 Equitable Building NEW YORK: 120 Liberty StreetCINCINNATI, OHIO: 303 Provident Bank Building Greensboro, N.
. Good roads year book. D GRAVEL CO. jNIanufacturers of Materials forMACADAM ROADWAYS MEMPHIS. TENN. 407 The ACME Line OF Road Building Machinery ^^The Machinery of Merit OUR LINE INCLUDES: Steel Frame Rock Crushers, Elevators, Screens, Bins, Engines, Tar Heating Kettles, Oil Sprinkler, Contractors Dump and Spreading Wagons, Road Machines, Wheel and Dump Scrapers, Plows, Etc Send for New Catalogue No. 8 Acme Road Machinery Co. Frankfort, N* Y, BOSTON: 141 Milk Street BALTIMORE, MD.: 449 Equitable Building NEW YORK: 120 Liberty StreetCINCINNATI, OHIO: 303 Provident Bank Building Greensboro, N. C. 4Un AMIESITE After years of experiment there has been placedon the market a material for a wearing surfacewhich meets with all the demands. A high class material at a moderate cost. It consists, of crushed stone, coated withoutheating, with an asphaltic cement. It is made at permanent mixing plants locatedat the quarries is shipped in gondola cars, laid;androlled cold. AMIES ROAD COMPANY DRAKE BUILDINGEASTON, PA. 409. or Bill McCracken used to say: Its a durn sight harder to git some men to do theeasy thing than it is to get em to do the thing thatsbound to keep em eternally oneasy after theyve got it done. Thats why tar is more or less used today asa road binder; the look ahead is overlooked. Cecil Nathan, a prominent road engineer,says that *tar is serving its purpose as a temporaryexpedient, but something much more permanent than theprimitive methods of tar spra\ing, or even tar macadam, is required. In common with the best informed men identified with the cause of better roads, this engineeragrees that the hope of the future is in a bituminous ROAD ASPHALT fully meets this demand for apermanent road material. Its basic ingredient is Gilsonite— percent pure bitumen. Pioneer roads are high-class roads, and aregiving satisfaction everywhere. In the Engineering Record of March 4,1911, T. Warren Allen, Engineer Member New York StateHighway Commission, say
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