DOWN WITH DUST

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12751, 6 January 1936, Page 3

DOWN WITH DUST

INTERESTING EXPER-IM EN TS -MADE IN AMERICA.

Local bodies which have to suffer each summer a barrage of complaints from ratepayers about the dust nuisance, will he interested .in the following report of experiments that have been made in Canada and TJ.S.A. with salt and clay. “A mixture of day and common salt is being used in the new formula with which Ontario’s Department of Highways is experimenting for the surfacing of gravel roads. Successful salt highway construction has been reported from New York, Michigan, Vermont, Maryland and other parts of the United States, where it is claimed that the salted roadways provide a hard, non-skid, dustless surface at a much lower cost than asphalt or concrete. The new surfacing is being, tested on a few miles of the Sehomborg-Al-landale road, while in northern Ontario it is also being used to see how it will stand tffe .severe winter in the north. Salt or calcium chloride is used in proper proportion to the amount of elay and gravel to keep the surface moist, and this damp clay maintains a uniformly hard surface. It is suggested that these salt roads may eliminate the deep holes and ruts which develop in gravel roads.

“Salt is used rather than calcium chloride becauso of the difference in cost.”