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NEW YORK.—More than 400 miles of cotton-re-enforced bituminous surfaced highways will have been completed in ten States before win ter, the Cotton Textile Institute re ported Monday after contacting State highway departments. Completion of roads for which cot ton fabric, used as a re-enforcing membrane between top surface and base, was furnished gratis to States by the Federal Government, will in sure a broad scale demonstration of the practicability of such roads un der varying extremes of winter weather and traffic. Tabulation of reports shows that 410% miles of cotton roads are com pleted as follows: New Hampshire 2 miles, Rhode Island 12, Massachus etts 4, New York 100, New Jersey 10, North Carolina 105, Alabama 120, Indiana 11, Virginia 8%, Missouri 25, Arkansas 5 and Tennessee 6 miles. Uses 8 Bales Per Mile Construction of another fifty miles originally scheduled for completion this fall in Arizona, Washington, Maine, Florida and Georgia has been postponed until next spring because of late delivery of the fabric which was purchased by the Department of Agriculture under a $1,300,000 allo cation to finance a Nation-wide dem onstration of the new construction method, counted on to open up a fu ture new market for hundreds of thousands of bales of cotton annually. Each mile of cotton road utilizes from eight to ten bales of cotton in the form of re-enforceing fabric. First employed in South Carolina in 1926 and sponsored actively since by the institute, the cotton road tech nique involves no departure from standard bituminous-surfaced road construction methods and is widely regarded by highway engineers as an almost ideal type of construction for secondary road systems. The re-en forcing membrane, preventing rip pling and raveling of the top surface and providing a waterproof seal be tween surface and base, is credited by highway department engineers in the different States with substantial economies in maintenance. Cost Is Negligible Typical of the State reports is that of New Hampshire, which reported after completing a cotton road in the town of Washington that “no diffi culty was encountered in laying the cotton and the additional cost of manipulating the cloth was so slight as to be considered practically neg ligible.” Commenting on the completion of New York's first cotton road be tween Marinville and Amsterdam, a distance of six miles, David Noonan, State Highway Commissioner in charge of maintenance, is quoted as having said that if cotton roads are “as good as they are supposed to be and are proved so under tests of two or three years, it may be that they will supplant the gravel road in this State.” Tennis originated in Wales in 1874.
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Whitewright Sun
Whitewright, Texas, US
Thu, Sep 24, 1936
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