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DALLAS, Texas. May 24 (4'. A process similar to carpet-laying will be used in building a two -mile stretch of experimental cot ton road in the northern part of Dallas County soon. Thick rolls of cotton fabric resembling the ma terial used for sacking will be unfurled longitudinally in over lapping strips on the road case previously treated with a priming coat of asphalt. The strips will be tacked down at the overlap. A coat of hot asphalt then will be spread over the fabric and pea gravel scattered while the asphalt is warm. R. H. Clinger, county engineer, has been informed the cotton fab ric will cost $700 a mile. The addi tional labor and ssphalt will cost another $300. Single asphalt sur facing costs from $1,200 to $1,560 a mile, including material and labor. Advocates of cotton roads claim the fabric prevents cracking, raveling of the edges of the as phalt surfaces and failure of the asphalt to stick to the base in spots, which causes holes. H. V. Patton, county engineer of Shelby County, Tenn.,wrote Clinger that one-half mile of cot ton fabric road built there in 1987 has given excellent service. “The addition of the cotton fab ric properly laid will prolong the life of the surface from three to five years and prevent the forma tion of pot holes which develop in similar surfaces laid without the fabric,” said Patton. “The price of the 'fabric’is more than offset by the longer life of the serfece.”
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Del Rio Evening News
Del Rio, Texas, US
Wed, May 24, 1939
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