Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 10, 1918, Page 5

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1918 THE: NO GOOD ROADS WITH BOND (SSUE 10 SURFACE MAIN: ARTERIES-OF STATE MOWOGATED. AS MEANS CAPITALIZE ASSETS HERE Will Also Provide Work During Big Reconstruction! Period, Declares Fred Patee in Discussion of Program to be Submitted to Legislature - fe of 4 By FRED PATEE. ow that the war is over, what are we going to do about our highways? With from four to five million soldiers and helpers returning from France does it not strike you that we should take immediate steps to bring a lot of this young, vigor- ous blood into Wyoming? Does not Wyoming-need just the kind of manhood that is coming back to be relocated—some- where—why ~not Wyoming? | foot of a perfect cement concrete. | Before I go into any recommenda, tions, tho, let me set myself right with some of our good people who have the idea that I am a good roads booster because I want to sell asa bestos for that purpose. No such thing. Asbestos has no place in road construction and I have no axe to grind except the love of the state and the wish to see it become the ‘em- pire within itself” that it will be- come if you people who live here will only let it, and will, when the occasion arises, put your shoulder to the wheel and help boost it along. When it first became known that the City Dads had made up their have the gift of vision and they can- not see the great advantage to them- selves and their neighbors, that will come thru the pavements, and that cannot come in any other way. Wait till the boys come home from France and tell you what the good roads of France have done for that country since our boys have been over there, and what such roads will do for us; but we must not wait, for then it will be too late to get a lot of those same boys; we must have, our good roads ready for them when they land; they are going to settle where the movement is on the way; they are not going to be fooled into Casper td Sait Lreek Cement Highway mass into the box and run a straight edge over the top and level it off and you have one-half of a cubic! Now measure- carefully all the cement batter that is left and you will then know just how much batter it took to fill all the voids between the stones that you first put into the! wire basket, and from this experi- ment you can order your stones, your sand and your cement for « job of! any size, whether it be to build the} O. & S. building or to concrete the! Yellowstone highway. | Cement association. Each lump of dirt makes a rotten spot just that big, and where the stones and sand are not washed, and dirt and silt are allowed to get into the mix, the whole mass is rotten in proportion to the quantity of dirt that goes in; and while we are on the subject, let me tell you that this explains why the Portland Associa- tion of America was formed. It is an association maintained by all of the cement factories in the United States. Each factory contributes so much money according to the ca- pacity of the mill, toward the main- tenance of the association, and the | duties of the association are to pro- mote the use of Portland cement, and to see that it is properly used. The cement highway work on the Salt Creek project is being done under the personal supervision of an engi- neer from the office of the Portland It is his duty to Now go back to your experimental see each batch of material that comes block, set it away to season for 30|0" the job, and to see that it is days and then saw it up into a dozen| Properly mixed. The cement com- parts. You will find it a perfect| Panies are doing this at their own piece of concrete, so homogeneous | ©XPense to protect the reputation of in its character that it will withstand Cement construction generally, and any test you may wish to apply. You | especially, cement highways, for they will find that all of the voids that|Tecognize the fact that poor work, were visible when you first put the) done by unskilled or unscrupulous stones into the wire basket have been | Contractors, will mitigate against the filled, and while the stones still rest| "S¢ Of cement, whereas good, clean, one upon another they are so care-| W¢!l made highways will last indefi- fully cemented’ together that not a| Ditely and become a lasting advertise- single void remains. It is only where) ™¢t to their business. careless, unscrupulous contractors; THE YELLOWSTONE mix sand, dirt, silt and stones, all, HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION together, that you get rotten cement. At the annual meeting of the Yel. ee eeeeeee————————— === We Installed This Hydraulic Press To Save Money For You "hae rental value of your truck is from $15 to $50 uday, depending, on its size. Every day that you lay up your truck, waiting for tires to be pressed on at the factory or in some other city, you lose $15 to $50. To save this money and to render you service in keeping, with the high standard of Firestone Truck Tires we invested in this press, It will apply ry size of Firestone Pressed-On Tire, from 32x2%4 the 42x14 tone Giant. With us, applying, pressedeon tires is a° matter of minutes instead Sf dae = P. OUT PERMANENT HIGH WAY lowstone highway association, held in| county commissioners, Laramie ¢éun-, passés, be aske? to change the name Douglas during the week of the state fair, an entirely new board of offi- cers was elected and resolutions were passed outlining a course of prog- ress to be pursued that will mean a persistent and irresistable production of results. The following officers will guide the course of progress for the coming year: Chairman, Chauncy C. Bever of the Enderly Hardware & Lumber Co., Thermopolis; Secre- tary, C. J. Williams, cashier of the National Bank of Greybull; Trustees, Warren Richardson, chairman board ty; J. 8S. Schoob, merchant, Cody; and Fred Patee, Casper. A. N. Johnson, chief consulting engineer of the Portland Cement association of America, who came from Washington City to address the meeting, has prepared a draft of a new law which the legislature will be asked to pass at the next séssion, which provides for an amendment to the constitution, permitting the state to issue bonds for permanent high- ways. It was also suggested that each city thru which the highway of the street over which the Yellow- stone highway will enter and leave the city, to the Yellowstone highway, and this suggestion has already been acted upon by two or three of the tons on the route. In Casper, the streets affected would probably be East Third street and West Second street. miliarize the citizens with the route of the Yellowstone highway, so when a tourist comes to town every man; woman or boy he asks will be able (Continued on Page. Six) O. S. Building Five Second Floor Be CHRISTMAS GIFT SALE EXQUISITE SILK BLOUSES Priced $5.75 to $35 HIGH CLASS COATS Priced $25 to $150 SMART DRESSES Priced $25 to $67.50 FURS—Capes, Coatees, Scarfs and Muffs Priced $47.50 to $275 " ; The object of this is to fa- ~ Showing the mixing and finishing gangs at work, making the first piece ef cement highway-in the State of Wyoming. The first slab in the foregréuttd is finishediand there are now two and one-half miles: The resiliency, toughness and wearin qualitieSof Firestone i unsurpassed. Come in and Jet ug prove with bur thorough: service facilities. Priced $9 to $32.50 of this highway finished and ready for use whén the road is opened in the spring. | minds to pave Center street, some of the oldest inhabitants came before them with long faces, and almost with tears in their eyes, and begged them to drop the idea. One man said: “It will cause me to lose my property.” They had all kinds of excuses to, pre- vent the street from being paved. Is there any man in Casper now who, would go back to the old’ muddy! street? . Not much, there’ isn’t; and the men who kicked the hardest have reaped great profits by having had! the paving betause of the increased values of their properties. It is a well known fact that a pavement always increases the value of abut- ting™properties. It is more notict- able in the country than in the city. There is mile after mile of ranch land along the Yellowstone highway, | yes, hundreds of miles, that will be taken qut of the ten and twenty dol- lar per acre classes when the Yel- lowstoné highway is cemented from one end to the other, and placed in the hundred dollar, the three hundred dollar, and thé five hundred dollar class. Land that would not be worth, a hundred: dollars per acre for the) next hundred years, without the cement ‘highway, will immediately jump to five hundred dollars per! acte. = All the land on the entire route will advance tremendously, and some of the very persons who might be against a bond issue for this purpose will reap the greatest benefit. Isn’t it strange that a man who owns a great body of land along thé route of a highway should object t6 an im-, provement that would mean hundreds und thousands of dallars in profit to, him? Yet such men live right here | in Wyoming, arid they are not, to blame either, for some men_do nd6b! ee a a | name Best Prices For Furs } The demand for‘taw furs this season is for another generat are the boys who act “right If they were not, the war would no’ be over. Don’t forget these boys want action, not promises, and. they are going to, get it, too. What is a good road, anyway? How! many of you know? For the bene- fit of those who do not, let me tell you what a cement concrete is, and why it will, and does stand thru cen-} turies of time. In the first place, | we will take a wire basket, one foot | square and six inches deep, with a half inch mesh, so that you can see| just what it contains. Now, we will| take a wire basket, one foot square, | so that you can see just what it con-| tains. Now, we will fill the basket with stone or pebbles about the size of a small egg, a hen’s egg, but a/ small one; when it is full and level} put a top on it so tight that it will) hold all these stones in place, then you can hold it up to the light and look at it, examine it, top and bot-! tom, and all sides. Of course, as there is nothing else in this basket but eélean, well washed stones, the} stones are resting upon each other, one stone upon another, aren’t they? | That is the first principle of good! construction. | Now you mix a batter composed of two parts of good, sharp, clean sand, and one part Portland cement; you Keep an accurate measure of just how much you mix, and when it is ready you pour the stones from this wire basket, and the cement, batter into a small mixer and let it revolve until it is thoroly mixed.| Each one of the stones will then be. covered with a film of this cement batter. Now have ready a small mould or a box“oneé foot square and sixinches déep. 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