Cotton mill, commercial features. A text-book for the use of textile schools and investors (1899)
Tompkins, Daniel Augustus, 1851-1914 · Charlotte, N.C., The author · leaf 247
top dress-ing of about two inches. Each of the three layers is rolledas laid. OriginLlly the county roads were constructed by round-ing up the road bed, cutting drain ditches on either side,excavating the centre to a width of twelve feet—nineinches in depth, and then filling in the excavated… … Road with Macadam in Centre. graded, becoming practically new roads. The aboveengraving shows a cross section of a road bed, as originallyconstructed. Experience, however, taught the road authorities that,when the roads were dry, the clay-bed was preferred by alldrivers, and the location of the…
Cotton manufacture
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