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CONCRETE ON THE ROADS. * CONCRETE FOR BRIDGES. Full Particulars of a Most Welcome Innovation, as supplied in a Pamphlet issued byWilson's Portland Cement Co. Auckland. (Continued from last week and to be continued weekly). AMERICAN EXAMPLES. Mr Hines' address will, we are sure prove intensely interesting, and will serve to show hosv America has progressed in permanent road-building, the activities of this single county being a g«od indication of the energy now being displayed right throughout the country. The Concrete Road System of Wayj^e County, Mich,, u.s.a. Address by Edward 'N. Hines, Chairman Board of County Road Commissioners, Wayne County, Michigan, before the National Conferen3e on Concrete Road Building, Chicago, 1914 :— '" The laws of the State of, Michigan provide a county system and a state reward system for the building of quod roads. The county system is essentially the application of the home rule doctrine, and no county can go into the building of good roads in Michigan under the county system without first adopting that system in that particular county. There are 83 counties in the State, and of this number 58 are now under the systeai. Wayue was the twentyseventh county. At the time the county road system was up for adoption there were two methods whereby a county could signify its wisnes on the county system—one by means of the initial action of a majority of the board of supervisors, and the other by means of obtaining the signatures of 10 freeholders in each of the several townships, villages and cities. For a number of years Wayne County was unable to get the sanction of a majority of the Board of Supervisors, nor could the county get the necessary 10 signatures from all the townships. It was not until 1906 that the necessary 10 signatures of freeholder* could be secured. Finally, however, enough men were won over to the cause to put the system up |for adoption, and the system was adop ted by a..vote of approximately 40,000 for the 7000 against. The vote showed the real spntiments of the road question, but when a board of county road com* missionets was appointed, a legal struggle ensue 1, and the commission was rejected. However, a new commission was appointed, and the "real worK of concrete roads was begun. The first contracts accepted by the County Koads Commission of Wayne County called for a bituminous type of road. After a year's experience, however, that commission, of which I was a member, found, ju9t as roadbuilders are finding everywhere, that where the traffic is ? mixed, the bituminous type of road or. the waterbound type does not stand up without excessive cost for maintenance aad repairing, so we began to look for a new type of road construction, because we did not believe it was advisable to continue the building of types of road that were failures. We had observed the action of concrete under traffic in cross walics, in bridge floors and in other places ; we figared that if concrete would withstand th.c wear of traffic in thos.6 places, it would probably stand up, as a, rpa.d. if it were properly designed and properly built to meet the requirements. We devised specifications for concrete roads and began to build them, We started WQrk in April) 1909, an.d openod ou^ rqa^ainJune of tb.e same year, TUess first concrete rqa4s are now ift the fifth year, and wiU aqqn, gtftrt Ujggfe tb**' sixth. Qu,t \m&% V- . 7 11' »p§etedta»>- ;■■ -^ b?V u--e^. -*nost every road-building -^crt in the country." and the roads speak for themselves. '' ' j Wayne County is flat to a very | large exteut, with a sub-grade composed very largely of clay. The county is in a valley, and here and j i there are found occasional stretches of deep sand. When we adopted the county road system there was t not a single mile of good road in the whole county. There are 1,379 miles of road in the county outside of the villages and cities, of which, about 150 miles are now improved. CURE FOR RHEUMATISM. I This is not a patent medicine, it is a prescription of an eminent English specialist. For years I have been a sufferer from chronic rheumatism. One year ago I consulted one of the leading specialists of the Dominion (now deceased^. On receipt of postage stamps, money order, or postal notes for 4s 6d, I will post twelve doses of the remedy, which this specialist declared to bs the only thing known to science as a cure for this paintul disease. F. Greville, Editor N.Z. Dairyman, Box 502, Wellington.—Advt.