. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . BROCKTON AVENUE. RIVERSIDE. FOUR INCH MACADAM BASE, A GAL. OF OIL TOTHE SQUARE YARD. TWO YEARS OLD. PHOTOGRAPHED h NORTH ORANGE AVENUE. RIVERSIDE. OILED TWO YEARS AGO. PHOTOGRAPHED 1906. REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF 11 Hill WAYS. 17 lereenings. Wherever there is a tendency for oil to collect on the sur-face cover it with more screenings. In all instances where oil is applied beneath the real surface of theroadway, there is a tendency for it to rise and not to penetrate do


. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . BROCKTON AVENUE. RIVERSIDE. FOUR INCH MACADAM BASE, A GAL. OF OIL TOTHE SQUARE YARD. TWO YEARS OLD. PHOTOGRAPHED h NORTH ORANGE AVENUE. RIVERSIDE. OILED TWO YEARS AGO. PHOTOGRAPHED 1906. REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF 11 Hill WAYS. 17 lereenings. Wherever there is a tendency for oil to collect on the sur-face cover it with more screenings. In all instances where oil is applied beneath the real surface of theroadway, there is a tendency for it to rise and not to penetrate down-ward in direction to any great extent. This is due to the weight aboveforcing the material down, and the oil ascends, filling the is my firm belief that this plan, if properly followed out, will giveexceedingly gratifying results. If the top rock is hard the oil willextend its wearing life very materially by acting as a lubricant in pre-vention of the grinding process, and by having a depth of oil. say fourinches, in the road gives an elastic binding which takes up the weightand shocks of travel, reducing the wear and the raveling of the ordinarymacadam road. REPAIRS TO OILED ROADS. Whenever a weak spot or rut shows


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