Southern good roads . uncombe county, , let contract last month for surfacing with Aztecand Texaco asphalt six miles of the Asheville-Weav-ville road. 10 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS June, 1915 Cement Clay Gravel Streets By J. c. McAllister Superintendent of Streets, Wilmington, N. C. DlKLXG the years l!)l:J aud 1914 the city of Wil-mington, North Carolina has constructed up-wards of 100,000 square yards of Cement Clay Gravelstreets supplied from the deposits at Lillington, NorthCarolina, which ai-e operated hv the Cape Fear Gravc-lCo. All of this -work has been done by the city forces un-der the di
Southern good roads . uncombe county, , let contract last month for surfacing with Aztecand Texaco asphalt six miles of the Asheville-Weav-ville road. 10 SOUTHERN GOOD ROADS June, 1915 Cement Clay Gravel Streets By J. c. McAllister Superintendent of Streets, Wilmington, N. C. DlKLXG the years l!)l:J aud 1914 the city of Wil-mington, North Carolina has constructed up-wards of 100,000 square yards of Cement Clay Gravelstreets supplied from the deposits at Lillington, NorthCarolina, which ai-e operated hv the Cape Fear Gravc-lCo. All of this -work has been done by the city forces un-der the direct supervision of the superintendent ofstreet. The city uses a ton of cement clay to cover ev-ery four square yards, and ten men with four teamshave been all the force necessary to haul and put Inplace on the street four hundred square yards of pave-ment per day. The extraordinary cheapness of thispaving material has proven a great boiuu for Wilming-ton, taking into account its tine ai^pearance and per-manent J. c McAllister Superintendent of Streets, Wilmington, N. C. Mtst of the streets were originally sand from sixto eiglit inches in depth and increased the difficultyand expense in hauling. The first cement clay gravel streets from the Lilling-ton deposit was laid in Wilmington in the year 1910,Ever since this the city has used this material. Duringthe year 1914 about yards of cement gravelstreets were completed. Renmrkable as it may seem,though some of these streets have been used for nearlylive years, no money has been expended for mainten-ance and repairs. This fact, and taking into accounttlie low cost of cement clay gravel makes for it claim that it is the cheapest paving material forthe money that can be supplied any community. Several of tlie streets have been treated with a flushcoat of tar or asphalt, which is found to adhdere asreadily to cement clay gravel as to macadam or othermaterial. The advantage of cement clay gravel over macadam,am
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