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Austin, Texas.—State Highway en gineers are watching with interest the experiment near Gonzales on Highway 3 in which cotton fabric was used for binding purposes. The ex perimental road is 468 feet long and was laid in October, 1929. Gibb Gilchrist, State Highway En gineer, was over the road recently and said that it was holding up well The cost of laying the stretch was $374, which would make the mileage cost of a road built with the cotton fabric slightly more than $4000. The cotton in the highway, accord ing to Gilchrist, performs the same duty as cotton in cord tires. It acts as a binder to hold the base to the surfacing material and is said to be instrumental in preventing creeping The highway was constructed with a crushed flint clay and gravel base After the rolling and shaping, the road was opened to traffic for 30 days to pack the base after which all de pressions were removed and the base carefuly swept to remove all dust. Light tar was then applied, follow ed by a coating of penetration asphalt. Seventeen hours later the cotton fabric was laid, the asphalt and tar applications still being stick. The cotton was covered with penetra tion asphalt. The whole surface next was covered with from three-quar ters to one-quarter of an inch crush ed limestone and rolled. The weight of the cotton used was three ounces to the square yard. Gilchrist stated that if the road near Gonzales, which has been sub jected to fairly heavy traffic, holds up, more experiments along this line will be conducted.
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Sikeston Standard
Sikeston, Missouri, US
Tue, Nov 04, 1930
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