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MEMPHIS, Tenn., is making a striking advance in local improvements and is conducting its public works in a thorough-going and scientific spirit.

Its new macadam is no longer built in the old-fashioned way with the prospect of quick deterioration, but is bonded firmly with Tarvia to preserve it against automobile traffic.

Mr. George C. Love, Memphis Commissioner of Streets, writes as follows:

Gentlemen:-During the season of 1910 the City of Memphis let contracts for fourteen miles of tar macadam pavement, and during the season of 1911, we let contracts for eight miles of tar macadam pavement.

In the above work, Tarvia X was used as binder material almost exclusively in the two-gallon treatment. The streets as a whole are very satisfactory and we expect to do a great deal more during 1912. In addition to the above work, the City laid with their own forces about 20,000 sq. yards of tar macadam with a 1 3/4 gallon treatment using Tarvia X. The property owners who pay the front foot assessment seem to be very much pleased with this form of construction.

There are three kinds of Tarvia: "Tarvia-X" used in road construction as above, "Tarvia-A" for surface work and "Tarvia-B" for dust suppression.

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