March, 1911 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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Presert/es Roads 
Prevents Dust ~ 
A Tarviated 
State Road 
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The above illustration shows the State 
has been the means of driving trade away 
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road at Pekin, Ill., recently built under 
from the city.” 
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the supervision of the Illinois Highway 
The Tarvia used in this construction 
Commission and financed by the City of Pe- 
forms a tough, elastic matrix around the 
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kin and its merchants. In describing this 
stone, protecting it against water, and also 
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road, the Municipal Journal and Engineer, 
acts as an additional binder, thereby adding 
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in the August 24th issue, states: “Eleven 
greatly to the life of the macadam. 
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inches of crushed rock, with two layers of 
A road bonded with Tarvia X will keep 
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Tarvia, followed by a fine screened coating of 
its contour long after the ordinary water- 
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rock, go to make up the road. The heavy 
bonded macadam has been ruined by traffic, 
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ballast is securely anchored by shoulders at 
and the reduction in maintenance is so great 
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either side of the roadway, and it will take 
as to more than compensate for the slight 
tie Illinois River’s mightiest effort to work 
increase in cost. 
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destruction to the improvement, as was the 
Other grades of Tarvia are Tarvia A, for 
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case during the record high water of 1904. 
surface coating old roads and Tarvia B, a 
The road, which handles the entire travel 
lighter grade for dust prevention. 
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into the city from the West, has been im- 
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