macadamize
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They exerted great influence in inducing communities to macadamize roads, for which the passing of the stage-coach and the spread of railroads had diminished the demand.
From History of the United States, Volume 6 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews
The continent was crossed, the Gulf reached, and the road indicated by the hardy pioneers, which their successors will find it comparatively easy to level and macadamize.
From Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia by William John Wills
Unless changes are made in the location of the roads in many parts of this country it would be worse than folly to macadamize them.
From The Future of Road-making in America by Archer Bulter Hulbert
In the dense forest, where sunshine never comes, rocks, mud, and fallen trees in rapid alternation macadamize the path, save where it turns up the bed of a babbling brook.
From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton
Funds were set aside by the State Highway Commission in 1917 to macadamize the 40 mile section of Old Oregon Trail from Pendleton west to the Morrow County line.
From Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 by S. Benson
The 71st joined the retreat, still encumbered with its guns, and headed along the macadamized Warrenton turnpike – now Route 29 – toward Centreville, Burgess said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2021
The 71st joined the retreat, still encumbered with its guns, and headed along the macadamized Warrenton turnpike — now Route 29 — toward Centreville, Burgess said.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2021
Princeton University historian James M. McPherson writes that before all-weather macadamized roads, it cost the same to move a ton of goods 30 miles inland as it cost to bring a ton across the Atlantic.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2018
The streets of the Anglo-Hawaiian capital are clean and all admirably macadamized, the material employed for the purpose being coral, black lava, stone, and sand.
From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou
In the mean time Columbia Street had been graded and macadamized.
From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Orange Jacobs
Work covered by the contract was for grading and macadamizing, culverts and bridges.
From Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 by S. Benson
In summary, the improvement work on the Pacific Highway in Douglas County during 1917 and 1918, including the work now under way, consisted of 39.9 miles of grading and 7.0 miles of macadamizing.
From Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 by S. Benson
It is a pity that Government should spend so much in macadamizing roads, when cutcher-roads answer just as well for all the wants of native traffic.
From A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home by Laurence Oliphant
The steamer gives you an hour in which to drift about in the sunshine and meditate upon the inferiority of any material other than water for the macadamizing of roads.
From A Wanderer in Venice by Harry Morley
Her equestrian experience previously had been limited to steady macadamizing on the roads.
From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
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