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Materials Largely Employed. A Year of Progress in High- way Construction.

The completion this year

of eleven miles of paved

‘ iroad, using all local mater- ial with the exception of as- rphalt. and cement, marks a

y 'great forward advance in M-the road-making history of the Province. The following

‘I interesting description ofthe

work done has been furnish- - - V ' ' ~ ' ' ‘ ' ', ' ' ~ - ed by the Provincial Depart- - TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY . TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY, BORDEN TOiCARLETON CORNER

ment of Public works to ac- Carleton Comer west _ ' “math Pava.“ p ~ ‘company the illustrations ~ Bithulithic Pavement _ _ on this and the followin

page: .

' Y. In the development oi’ motor Jraffic, the greatest problem that ..confronted the country has been the construction oi.’ roads suitable to the need and within the econ-

xnic possibilities. This pmblem must be solved by scientiﬁc re- search into the types of material

.. . available in the different provinces, end by experimental and demon-

._ itrational work. -

, It was generally understood that there was no material in this pro- _yince suitable for the construction of paved roads, and it was just as generally known that our greatest

y problem was dust and mud. This could only be eliminated by some type of paved surface. With that end in view, there wen carried on

_-_in the province this year emperi- ments in different types of road

_ ~ surfacing.

‘.3.’ In laboratory tests of our road soil a most unique discovery was

made. viz, that our soil had no

‘éapillary attraction, being practic- ally self-draining, thus eliminating

. . the danger of frost boils which do

...|uch serious damazﬂ in countries

. that experience winters such as

.. ours.

Most oi the main roads o! this province have been in use ior a. century or more, thus giving us n. j _ _ - , - perfect base’ for a pavement. With _ _ t v I I I 4 _ .\ v the propamattfnmn p?! side drain- -" . , -- ‘ v I - -

- age and a m ect formda- . , ' ‘ " = Alon, there is no doubt that a much SANDASPHALT PAVEMENT ' i y y ’ ' TnAnkcA-NADA HIGHWAY

~~thinner and less expensive ve- . ' ' " -

. ment than is required in Digest _ North River Road ‘ y M011“??? HlEhWW-‘muml

places wouidbe sufficient lo: our i y ~

~- needs.

The Gasoline ‘h:

‘The paving of roads today under our system 0t gasoline taxation must not be considered in the some light as formerly. The motor vo- ’ ‘hicle owners in this province have " from about $7,000,000 to $8,000,000 invested in motor vehicles, 5nd in 1933 they pB-ld thereon a tax of $259,000. In addition to this there was a road tax of $49,000. making n total road tax oi’ $03,000. The total amount paid in ma for land tax, personal property tax and income tax was $113,000. and for nsessments ‘by the- rural school district-s for educational purposes - a tn-x of $114,000. ‘Hie roadjames exceed the combined amount of these taxes by over $80,000. When nil this is considered our motor car owners are certainly entitled to serious consideration as far as our highways are concerned. The total bonded debt of can- lda carried by the provinces for ‘their highways is $438,000,000, which, figured on the per capita. basis is $41.00 per head, the per caplts debt for this province be- ing the lowest of any, figuring at $16.00 per head, which clearly demonstrates that the road prob- lems of Prince Edward Island have been handled with caution and imnonw’ Thbelavniiotgldaanufl iililitélli‘ ‘ TRANS AN i est on our e e or - . . ways is 064,625. when you nidd to 9 a , I C ADA HIGHWAY i111» W375 1°? I #103118 ""4 "i '. - ‘ Concrete Pavement at Borden leaves, available for highway _ " _. _ . maintenance over $150,000. The BB‘ cumulated sinking fund against our - bonded debt amounts now to i6 per cent. thereof.

l worm AT somus

A stretch of sand-asphalt pave- ~ment was built across the sand ~beach at Souris West. ‘Ihis is one

of the most dlﬂlcult places in the Mspnrvince on which to build a

, . pavement. In tho cﬁnstruction oi !.A\Tth1s project it was found neeusary to spread and consolidate about

400 yards of clay over the sand snheach before the work could be commenced, and for the making

“o; Qiypsvement there was used

of. shore sand and

I the excgption oi the

.. 1ﬂ¢0fF3lIPhl»'" ‘mmyrzralom! men. This is the ﬂrlt ,,,,,,,plece of work of this nature that ,1»; been undertaken like!» prov- vmce, and while not en rel’ stil- ';"'1';¢tory, ‘is a ruirly smooth. dustflI ~llﬂlbﬂ and will iron out 1106c

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