The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on October 15, 1926:
Minnesota’s highway department the first of this week completed the task of oiling and resurfacing with gravel the two-mile stretch of trunk highway No. 6, between the Kniss avenue paving and state road No. 8 north of this city. Oil was heated and put on under pressure by an especially designed machine, and the oil was covered with a thin coating of gravel. While this work was under way the road was closed to travel, the detour being by way of Blue Mounds avenue north to No. 8.
The applying of the oil on this two-mile stretch is one of many being done by the Minnesota Highway department for experimental purposes, for which numerous preparations are being given a trial. Tarvia has been applied to a section of No. 6 near Pipestone.
Re-gravelling trunk highway No. 9 between this city and Magnolia was started the fore part of this week by Contractor J. B. Deuel, of Worthington, who is using from fifteen to twenty motor trucks for hauling. It is expected that this job will be far advanced by the end of the present week.
Gravel for the first three miles east of this city is being taken from the Ford gravel pit in the city, and the remainder of the gravel needed will be hauled from the Thompson pit at Magnolia. The truck loads average about two and a fourth cubic yards of gravel, and close to 700 cubic yards is being spread on the road during each day.
The work of replenishing stock piles for No. 8 and re-gravelling patches of this road that needed such attention, which was done by the county, was finished last week by Mr. Deuel. Gravel for this contract was hauled from the Ward pit northeast of this city. Six stock piles, each containing about two hundred cubic yards of gravel, were stored up along the highway. This and the re-gravelling found necessary, required the hauling of 2,300 cubic yards of gravel.
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