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Charcoal Roads

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
June
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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There eeeina lo be no e:ul to iiew contfivancesand invenü'jns. A charcoal road will certatnly be a novel idea to most pcople. 1 het process of mnking such a road is thus descrioed by a writer in tbc Cleveland ïlerald: - "Timber frora six fo eigliteen inches tliro' is cut twenty four feet long) und piled up lengthwise in tho centre of tïie road obout five feet high; being nine feet uit'e at the bottoni and two at tlic top, and then covered with strnw and earth in tiio raanner of coalpits. The earth required to cover the pile, taken from either side, leaves two gaod sized áilche?f9üá tho timber althmigh not spin, ia easüy charred, nnd when charred, the-earth Í3 removed to the side of the ditchc?, thecoal raked down, to a widlh of fifteon feet, leaving it two feet thick at the centre and one at he sides, ond the road ís comp!eied. ' A Philadelphia paper etates Ihat a road of this kind is con6trucüng in tiie Cotton Wood Swamp. near Blissfield, in Michigan. The paper says;'We learn that about severïiy roda are cofnpleted, twenty of wliich' have beea used for liie last seven tnonths, and (lie balance for tliree monlh; nnd os il is on t!ie great ih'oronghfare West, and as, in addilion. on on average, Bisteen heavy loaded teams, to ond Irom an ashery, pass over it daily, H has been very well tried during the winter and spring1, and yet there is now no appea ranee of ruts but it presents an even, hard surfree. The cornpany making llie road pay th& contrnctors at the rate of $660 a mile. The road is said to becorue very compact nnd io be free i'roin nmd or diiKt. Hon. Elisha Whíttíkskt, and Mr. NuwroiT, an engineer who inspected tlie Büssfield road above tnentioned, state that ihey passed over it the mornin after a rain. "At eacl) end of the différent section of the different sections of llie coal road, the mud on the ceuseway was beily deep, wliere thero was that depth of earth; and nearly or quite half axletree deep where tAe Iog3 wero brokeD; when on the coal road, there was not the least water standing, and the impress of the feet of a horse passing rapidly over it was iike that made on knrd woshed sand, astho turf recedes on the ehore of the luke. The water is not drained Trom thcdilchea, andyct there are no ruts or inoqiíalitieá n the burfacö of the coal road, exerpt what is produccd by more compact packing on the line of travel.- Wc think it is probubl.v that coal will fully compénsate fin the deficienc of limo stons nnd gravel in mnny sections c-f the Westand where a road is to be consUucted through forest thal coal nny be used at a fourth. of ihe expense of hme stone."Q55 Mr. Bírf.t lius returned from the Eost, aml gone to Cincinnnti to the rrcat Ci'iivcn'ion tlieru. lio stopped at Cleveland several days, nnd gave two addresses in thnt cii. TílK B'ALTIjyiOBE ÍNlKTHOülStCONFEIl-' EÑCE, at iis laie meeting, rc-affinned Uá decisión in tuc case of the Uev. F. A Harding. Qf course he remnins supended from the minislry, fór rofusingto emancipatc hisslaves. Tlic sartié body deci(ioil jigaiust tlio proposition to divido tbe Cluirch on account of slavery, by a vote of 1-18 to 10.

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