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application of it, they use it in its high- 
est condition of refinement and, as near 
as I can learn, it costs between five 
and six dollars per ton to secure this 
stage of crystallization or granulation, 
and then costs about three dollars and 
fifty cents more per ton to pack it in 
the steel drums which they use and 
which are destr.03-ed after initial use, 
thus entailing a first cost of eight to 
nine dollars per ton merely to get it 
into a convenient form for shipping 
when it must be brought back into its 
original liquid state before it is of any 
value as a dust layer or road binder. 
It seems to me that these initial wastes 
are unnecessary and inexcusable. My 
method is to ship the original liquor in 
as near its crude condition as it may 
be profitably shipped and do its work 
on the road, and to ship in tank cars 
which are returned without charge, 
and so you have no waste in package. 
This application is made by the ordi- 
nary water sprinkling cart. The only 
thing needed for results is a volume of 
chemical retained in this solution that 
will give the requisite action. When 
put on in this liquid form the assim- 
ilation and attachment is almost instan- 
taneous, while if the granulated chem- 
ical is used, 36 to 48 hours is required 
for it to dissolve with air absorbed 
moisture, and while it is going through 
this process of absorption and attach- 
ment, it will be picked up and carried 
on foot or wheel, and so it is desira- 
ble to close a street during this satura- 
tion if you want to be sure your chem- 
ical is to stajr and do service as de- 
signed, and not be wasted or tracked. 
Again, the Solvay Process circular 
says to just spread this chemical on 
and let Nature do the rest, but my ex- 
perience has been that in some cases 
Nature will do its part altogether too 
well. These deliquescent chlorides, 
magnesium, calcium and sodium, all 
capable of abstracting and absorbing 
moisture from the air (they have this 
property in varying degrees from much 
to little in the order named) are vir- 
tually chemical sponges. They will ab- 
sorb moisture rapidly, but also, like the 
sponge, with little moisture in the air 
they will dry out, and when dry will 
be of little value as a dust-layer or 
road-binder. You can readily under- 
stand that with the chemical spread and 
left right on the surface, this drying- 
out process will go on very much faster 
than if it is incorporated well within 
the top surface of the roadway — my 
method. This incorporation will inter- 
fere but little with the moisture absorp- 
tion, but it will retard in a very large 
degree the rapid drying out of same, 
and so keep your roads in a good and 
dustless condition very much longer 
than the surface application will. But 
don't forget that when this chemical 
does dry out it needs an artificial wet- 
ting if you want to maintain perfect 
conditions at all times. Yet, if not 
convenient to give this artificial water- 
ing, if the chemical is properly spread 
and incorporated, your roads will be 
kept in good condition after each 
shower or rain ten times as long as 
they would remain so without treat- 
ment, so that in any case you will be 
assured of that ratio of benefit by the 
proper use of these delinquescent 
chlorides. 
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