The Utah Engineering Experiment Station was established by an Act of
the State Legislature in March 1909, as a department of the State
School of Mines, the engineering college of the University of Utah.
The station is authorized “to carry on experiments and investigation,
pertaining to any and all questions and problems that admit of
laboratory methods of study, and a solution of which would tend to
benefit the industrial interests of the State, or would be for the
public good.”
Just now in the State of Utah the problem of good roads—how to
construct and maintain them—is prominent in the public mind. As a
contribution to the discussion of this problem Professor Richard R.
Lyman of the Engineering Experiment Station staff offers the subject
matter of this bulletin. The publication and distribution of such
an article is clearly within the province of the privileges of the
station. It is hoped that this contribution will help solve the problem
of good roads in Utah.
Bulletin No. 1, now out of print, was on “Tests on Utah Brick,” and No.
2 was on “Tests of Macadam Rock.” The next bulletin to be published
will be tests on the cements on the Utah Market. So long as they last
bulletins of this Station will be sent free, upon application.