How would this do for Tennis Courts.

Manawatu Herald, 5 November 1895, Page 3

How would this do for Tennis Courts.

» Parhaps the oddest pavement ever laid is one just completed at Chino, Cal. It is made mostly of molasses, and if it proves all of the success claimed for it, it may point a way for the sugar planters of the South to profitably dispose of the millions of gallons of useless molasses which they are said to have on hand. The head chemist of a sugar factory at Ohino, Mr E. Turke wa3 led to make certain experiments, of which the new sidewalk, a thousand feet long, from the factory to the main street, is the result. The molasses used is a refuse product, hitherto believed to be of no value. It is simply mixed with a certain kind of sand to about the consistency of asphalt and laid like an asphalt pavement The composition dries quickly and becomes quite hard and remains so. The^pecaliar point of it is that the sun only makes it drier and harder instead of softening it, as might be expected. A block of the composition, two feet long, a foot wide, and one inch thick, was sub mitted to severe tests and stood them well. Laid with an inch or so of its edges resting on supports, it withstood repeated blows of a machine hammer without Bhowing any effects of cracking or bending.