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which is now so alarmingly on the
increase.
"While the ideal conditions for road
construction are very simple, they
have heretofore seemed impossible to
fully combine in any one system of
road or street work. However, it is
gratifying to note that all of the im
portant features seem to have been
in the brick wheel track road.
"A special feature of this road is
that the bricks which form these
tracks are so placed as to bring the
upper edge of each brick into con
tact with a straight edge resting upon
its neighbors. On these tracks nearly
as great a load can be hauled as on
a steel rail —in fact, it presents nearly
every advantage of the steel rail with
out its liability to rust from moisture
or warp from heat.
Horses Between Tracks.
"While the wheel tracks themselves
are somewhat slippery in icy weather,
as is the case with brick paved and
asphalted streets, the tracks are so
narrow that the horses will usually
walk between them, where good foot
ing may be found. In this respect a
most excellent combination for city
streets is secured by placing these
tracks in old cobble stone and ma
cadam streets, making in many re
spects an ideal and almost noiseless
street at trifling cost, and doing away
with the extreme cruel condition of our
slippery brick and asphalt streets in
icy weather for the helpless horses.
"If long term convicts are employed
to make brick and other road mater
ials, and short term convicts are em
ployed to make the roads, as is com
mended by the United States Office of
Public Road inquiries, the cost of con
structing brick track ways for our
country roads should not exceed $800
or $1,000 a mile, and in many cases
could be made to average less than
$600 a mile, exclusive of any necessary
grading and hauling of material. Fur
thermore, if well made they should
last for many years.
"In a recent article in the Review
of Reviews the length of the highways
of the United States, outside of incor
porated cities and villages, is esti
mated at three million miles.
"At a cost of construction of say $800
a mile, brick track roads for the en
tire country would cost less than four
times the $650,000,000 loss which It is
estimated we are now sustaining each
year on account of our bad roads.
"In other words, we are now pay
ing for the pleasure of using pur
present deplorable roads an annual
mud tax which in less than four years
would build the finest and best roads
in the world throughout the entire
country, and which would effect a sav
ing thereafter over our present con
ditions of nearly $7 each year for
every man, woman and child in this
country, to say nothing of the
pleasure, the satisfaction and the
moral benefits of driving over good
hard roads every day of the year in
stead of through a series of mud holes
or a cloud of dust.
"The proper manner of constructing
the brick track road will vary some
what in different localities, according
to the soil and climatic conditions.
Where the subsoil is naturally drained
and frost does not usually penetrate
deeply a base of two or three inches
of concrete under the brick appears
to be sufficient for ordinary roads. The
bricks are set on this concrete base.
"In localities where the soil is wet
or of a clayey nature drain tiles should
be placed lengthwise under each wheel
track, with suitable outlets, and where
the subsoil is very wet and the frost
penetrates deeply stone or other bal
last should be placed below the bricks,
with the drain tile beneath the stone
ballast.
"As nearly every form of road is
seriously damaged by the grinding ac
tion of the wagon wheels, it is at first
difficult to realize that this will not
be the case with the brick track road, I
but when we remember that the sur- \
face of the brick track is nearly as
even and uniform as the top of a steel
rail, and as it effectually obviates the
washing of hillside roads, it is difficult
to conceive how any appreciable wear
can possibly take place even in years
of ordinary use, if properly con
structed.
Good Bicycle And Footpaths.
"It is obvious that by overcoming
the wear and grind of the vehicle
wheels the dust and mud question is
largely obviated, while at the same
time satisfactory bicycle and footpaths
are provided.
"While for country roads noise is
not particularly objectionable, for city
street work it would largely do away
with the noise and din of our rough
streets and prove a great boon, es
pecially when the early sleep and rest
is habitually broken up by the noisy
milk wagon passing over the stony
streets.
"Our smaller towns and cities have
many macadam streets that are grad
ually being replaced with brick or
asphalt pavements. By placing a
brick track in these macadam streets
superior advantages are secured at a
small part of the cost of new brick or
asphalt pavements. The wagon j
wheels, being mostly carried by the
brick tracks, will do but little grinding
and forming of dust and mud of the
streets washed clean thus effectually
doing away with the mud and much
of the dust.
"In residence streets a heavy sod
can also grow directly up to to the
wheel tracks, thus making the finest
streets possible for residence purposes.
"The continued advance in the area
reached by the benefits of rural free
mail delivery under aid from the na
tional treasury indicates its deserved
popularity in the rural sections. A
steady Increase seems probable in the
area thus benefited until all of the
more densely populated parts of this
country are covered.
Bad Roads An Obstacle.
"To the rapid and economical ex
tension of rural mail delivery only one
obstacle worthy of consideration pre
sents itself, but that obstacle is of
such a nature as to greatly affect its
practicability and economy. This is
the present condition of our country
roads.
"Without question one of the first
great movements toward the economi
cal free rural delivery of the mails
should be the construction of passable
roads. This is already evident from
the fact that some of the mail delivery
routes have had to be abandoned on
account of bad roads.
"In view of these facts could not a
million or more be spent to the best
possible advantage by the national
government in constructing a section
of brick track road near each county
seat throughout the country as an ob
ject lesson in each county in the most
advanced methods of road construc
tion?" I
THE RANCH.
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