Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 10, 1918, Page 6

JOND ISSUE TO SURFACE MAIN. ARTERIES OF STATE ADVOCATED AS MEANS CAPITALIZE ASSETS HERE sere: 5 5 5 ° . ! b lished with > I have al: ad th he | Nill Also Provide Work During Big Reconstruction witt bring people who will never come| people, oF at least To ner ‘cent of; Period Dedaiés Fred Patee 7 Diaaieson of to Wyoming for any other reason) the people who made California fam- 7 Program to be Submitted to Legislature | At the last election the state of Ill | Rois voted a $60,000,00 bond issue for the building of permanent roads, |and the state of Pennsylvania voted a $50,000,000 bond issue for the| same purpose. | WHO BUILT STATE LAPS AUNT AN ees he New Oakland ensible Six Ran way and see for themselves the great | money there, and made it possible ' beauties. of this wonderful state with-| for them to build and maintain such out having to endure the hardships a wonderful string of hotels as they RAM than to ride over this wonderful high- ous as a resort, and who spent their | (Continued From Page Five) o direct him to the street leading mut of town on his route. Some ‘ities on the Lincoln highway are ising illuminated signs on each street orner, so that a tourist may drive hru a town at night as well as in he day time, without having to ask single question as to his route. CHE STRENGTH 2F CONCRETE Very few persons, even among the vest engineers who are using cement oncrete for all sorts of construction ‘very day in the year, have any real dea of the actual strength of a well ured concrete slab. About a year wo there was occasion in the city of Shicago to wreck a modern concrete viulding that had been up for 10 rears, and before it was destroyed vy dynamite the engineers in charge hot they would apply a real test as o strength of the floors which were lesigned to carry 250 pounds per quare foot. In order to get at an ictual sett they had the floor of the econd story covered with pig iron intil they had 900 pounds per square ‘oot heaped upon it, before they sould detect the slightest deflection, ind after they had loaded 1,250 sounds per square foot there was a leflection of about one inch in the The renter of the floor. ic test and photographs of it were orinted in many scientific magazines. Even after this floor was deflected one inch, from the terrific load, there was no signs of a crack, or even janger that it might give way under che load. It was a test which showed shat the factor of safety allowed by she engineer who designed the build- ng was far greater than was neces- sary for the job; and it is a well snown fact that a 30-foot concrete slab designed for a highway, if it is well anchored at each end, will still varry all the traffic even after all e bank that it rested upon has been zarried away by a flood. A good roads magazine called Con- crete Roads, prints a photo of a string of three trucks carrying 52 tons of crushed stone in one train, over one of the concrete roads in Wayne county Michigan. Just think of carrying 52 tons on three trucks; then couple them all together and put that load all in one short space on a modern highway, of any other material than concrete, and see what would happen to it. The Concrete Highway Magazine, in the November issue, shows a photo of a railway collision, at Provo, Utah, where an engine weighing 65 tons jumped the track and cut across a wide stretch of concrete paving, run- ning into a 29-ton interurban coach and knocking it off the track onto the concrete pavement on the other side of where it stood, and then shows photos of the pavement after the wreck was cleared; and beyond the bare marks of the flanges—of the locomotive wheels, you could not see that any wreck had occurred at all. There was not a crack nor a blemish of any kind in the pavement. LARGEST AND TALLEST SMOKESTACK CONCRETE When one gets to reciting what | can be done with Portland cement concrete there is almost no end to the story, but I am only trying to show the people who have not studied the subject, that it is the only first class material with which to build highways, and all of these} other stories only tend to show its wonderful strength. The Standard Oil company has 15 smokestacks here in| Casper, built of cement concrete. They would not. build their stacks of this material unless they were thoroly | satisfied that they could stand the wether conditions of Casper, would they? here at home have tried te make it appear that cement concrete will not stand the weather conditions Wyoming. concrete. It was built by a Chinese firm at Saganoseki, Japan, and is _'570 feet high—higher than the ‘Washington monument, and it must joe quite large too, for it is 26 feet it. Morrison E Jenver, Colo. This highway is laid across a natural Bogg where noth- ng but a cement concrete could endure. rears, without any repairs being needed. This was a pub-| Some of our enginevrs right | of | The largest and tallest | stack in the world is built of cement} 3 inches in diameter at the top. The Standard stacks in Casper are 150 feet high, and it would take six or eight of them to make one stack at Saganoseki. Big business concerns do not spend their money unless they are thoroly satisfied that the ma- terial will make good, and it always} does. RIGHT NOW IS THE TIME | Get behind the movement for the improvement of the Yellowstone high- | way and make it a permanent all-/ year-round artery for the movement | of troops, supplies, farm produce, | and freights of all kinds and char- acter. The government is just about to take over the highways thruout/ the entire United States that are of | strategic value as military highways, and that will at the same time serve the people of the country as main| arteries for the transportation of all kinds of commerce. The following item from ‘“Con- crete” tells of a bill just introduced | in congress for this purpose. Now is! the time to act, and bring the value | of Wyoming's highways prominently before the country. “A Bill to Creat a System of Mili- try Roads—A bil! to provide for the taking over, improvement, relocation, | It has been in service five construction, and maintenance of a system of national highways and state highways, designed to facilitate the movement of troops, equipment, mu- nitions and supplies, and to promote the general welfare of: the people of the United States, was introduced in the senate October 17 by Senator Chamberlain. It gives’ the secretary of war the right to take over and establish those highways that will be of greatest military value to the country, and develop them with a view to their use as postal roads and for industrial as well as military uses.”” 3 WILL BECOME GREATEST ATTRACTION IN WYOMING Wyoming does not possess any one feature of interest that will attract the people of the world to Wyoming as will the cement highway over the route of the Yellowstone high- way. We already have the scenic beauties of nature that are unsur- passed in the entire world, and all we need is to capitalize this scenery | thru advertising. The cement high- of rough and impassable roads. These people will leave missions of dollars in the stdte every year.| automobile roads that make the rich} Hon. Robert Carey said in a speech|of the east ship their automobiles! before the Yellowtone Highway asso-' out there by express so they will not | ee a aE The South Golden Road, from ciation at Douglas that it would cost twelve million dollars to pave the Yellowstone highway. Suppose it does cost twelve million dollars to! pave it, if it will bring twelve mil- lion dollars of new money into the! state each year, why worry about the cost? It will have the people of the state twelve million dollars each year from the standpoint of economic transpor- tation, and will bring. twelve million dollars of new money into the state from outside tourists too. Won't it be a money maker? Mr. Carey is a staunch supporter of concrete, and one of the planks in the platform that he put before the people before election, was a recommendation for an amendment could issue bonds to build highways. to the constitution, so that the state| have from San Francisco to San | Diego, and to build the wonderful za) Denver, Colo., to Goiden, Lolo. be compelled to lose any time in the use of them when they step from their Pullmans at Los Angeles; have | gone right thru Wyoming without even giving it a thot. Now, I want to show you just how true that is. | The following are “‘parts of letters’’| that I have gathered, from Eastern} people who have written back to, their homefolks about the state of} Wyoming. These are bona fide let-| ters written without any thot of my! ever getting my hands on them for publication, and I can give the names/| of the persons who wrote them if anyone has any doubts as to their | genuineness. I have said more than a hundred} times in print, and I say it again, “We need the cement highway from/ (Continued on Page Seven) TT In offering this new Oakland Sensible Six to the Ameri- can public, its builders do so with what they believe is a clear understanding of the needs of the progressive auto- mobile buyer of today. Accordingly they have embodied in this car that desir- able union of hich ability, light weicht, sure comfort and low maintenance cost which is the sum of true automo- bile value, and toward which the sensible motorist in- evitably is turning. Winter Is Here And this is the season of the year when your car requires attention. We Give You Service In Every Particular Most complete Auto Mechanical Department in the State. Storage Facilities the best. Thoroly equipped Paint Shop. Drop in and inspect our perfected automatically raising and low- ering AUTO TOPS. mee ie necessity. 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