Engineering and Contracting . stribution of the asphalt, but this hasbeen overcome by requiring the contractors to use amechanical sprayer, which so far has proved very satis-factory, and also is an economical proposition for the con-tractor. Ray Seeley is county engineer and surveyor of LakeCounty. ENGINEERINGAND CONTRACTING leased or loaned to the various townships under suchrules and regulations as the Road and Bridge Committeemay devise. Prior to this time, a campaign had been conducted bythe Road and Bridge Committee of the County Board andthe County Superintendent of Highways to show the
Engineering and Contracting . stribution of the asphalt, but this hasbeen overcome by requiring the contractors to use amechanical sprayer, which so far has proved very satis-factory, and also is an economical proposition for the con-tractor. Ray Seeley is county engineer and surveyor of LakeCounty. ENGINEERINGAND CONTRACTING leased or loaned to the various townships under suchrules and regulations as the Road and Bridge Committeemay devise. Prior to this time, a campaign had been conducted bythe Road and Bridge Committee of the County Board andthe County Superintendent of Highways to show the ad-vantage to the road improvement throughout the county,of owning and operating such machinery. Early in theyear the County Superintendent of Highways recom-mended this step to the Road and Bridge Committee, withwhom the scheme at once met with hearty the March, 1915, meeting of the Supervisors he ap-peared before the whole board and outlined the polfcy tothem. A short time later the Road and Bridge Committee. Kane County Road Construction With White Motor Trucks. CUTTING HAULAGE COST IN ROAD WORK TOSEVEN CENTS PER TON-MILE.* By G. N. Lamb, County Superintendent of Highways,Kane County, Illinois. The Forty-ninth General Assembly passed a law ap-proved June 29, 1915, authorizing the County Boards ofSupervisors to purchase machinery to enable counties toassist the respective townships in improving, repairingand maintaining township or district roads. Twenty-fourdays after this date the Supervisors of Kane County madean appropriation of $20,000 for the purchase and nec-essary supervision of machinery for the building of town-ship roads, the said machinery to operate under the direc-tion of the County Superintendent of Highways and to be •Contributed by Ihe White Cleveland. Ohio. made a trip to Indiana to look at some road constructionby machinery such as was being considered suitable forthe Kane County work. It was next decided to build ademonstration half
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