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which was 75 cents per day, and the cost of feeding the teams, which was $1 per day. 

 The total cost of the road to the community was $1,628.40, which is at the rate of 17 

 cents per square yard, or $1,969.32 per mile. 



Pal.\tk.\, Yla.. — The work at Palatka, Fla., consisted of grading and surfacing a sec- 

 tion, 5,000 feet in length, of the Bostwick road. The adjacent country is low and level 

 and the soil sandy. Since the road was a new one which had been laid out through a 

 forest, it was necessary to grub more than 400 trees and stumps, and this was done at a 

 cost of $239.11. To secure proper drainage, 580 cubic yards of earth were moved at a 

 cost of $116.75, or 20.1 cents per cubic yard. Fifteen hundred cubic yards of clay were 

 hauled an average distance of 1 mile, and for a width of 14 feet were spread upon the road 

 to a depth of 8 inches at the center and 6 inches at the sides, at a cost of $1,167.48. With 

 labor at $1.25 per day and teams at $4 per day the total cost of the road to the community 

 was $1,646.35, which is at the rate of $1,738.53 per mile. 



Albany, Ga. — The work at Albany, Ga., consisted of surfacing a road 5,775 feet in 

 length with a natural sand-clay mixture for a width of 20 feet. The surrounding coun- 

 try is level and the soil in the road is quite sandy. Earth to the amount of 3,722 cubic 

 yards was excavated at a cost of $345.20, or 9.27 cents per cubic yard. The natural 

 eand-clay mixture was hauled an average distance of 1,200 feet and spread 8 inches 

 thick. The cost of loading was 6.5 cents, of hauling 7.3 cents, and oi spreading 1.4 

 cents per cubic yard. The labor used was convict, which is estimated at 50 cents per 

 day, with county teams at $1 per day. The total cost of the road to the community 

 was $838.30, which is at the rate of $766.45 per mile. Work was begun on March 26, 

 1910, and thie road was entirely completed on May 3, 1910. 



A.MERicu.s, Ga. — The work at Americus, Ga., consisted in demonstrating the proper 

 method of building a sand-clay road. A section of clay road 528 feet in length was 

 graded ready for the demonstration. One hundred and ninety-five cubic yards of sand 

 were hauled a distance of 3 miles and spread upon the road with shovels. The sand 

 and clay wcn^ mixed witli plows and harrows, and the road was shaped with a road drag. 

 The work was done by the county convict road gang. With labor at 60 cents and teams 

 at the cost of subsistence, that is, $1 per day, the total cost of the improvement was $92, 

 which is at the rate of $920 per mile. Work was begun on August 26, 1909, and com- 

 pleted on September 1, 1909. 



Blakely, Ga.- — The construction of a sand-clay road at Blakely, Ga.,'was begun on 

 January 25, 1910, and completed on March 5, 1910. A section of the Gordon road, 

 5,300 feet in length, was graded for a width of 30 feet. The surface of the old road was 

 gray sand untlerlaid, at a depth of a foot or two, with clay, and, in grading the road, 

 about half of the material excavated was used for surfacing. Seventeen hundred and 

 thirty-two cubic yards of edrth were excavated at a cost of $145.11, and 1,005 cubic 

 yards of clay were loaded and hauled in wagons an average distance of one-half mile 

 at a cost of $162.35. ("ross drains, 20 feet in length, with concrete end walls, were con- 

 structed, at a cost of $120.37, as follows: One 12-inch and one 15-inch vitrified clay tile 

 and two concrete Ixixes with wal(Tways 1 by 2 feet. The total cost of the road to the 

 community was $731.77, or $611 not including the cost of the cidverts. The work was 

 done by the county convict road gang, and the cost of labor and teams was the cost of 

 guarding and feeding the convicts, and feeding the teams, which was 45 cents per day 

 for labor and $1.60 per day for teams. 



Brunswick, Ga. — A very sandy road, 1.200 feet in length, at Brunswick, Ga., was 

 surfaced, for a width of 12 feet, with a sand-clay mixture. Work was begun on April 

 7, 1910, and completed on April 26, 1910. Th(? grade and shape of the road were satis- 

 factory and the work consisted only of surfacing. Clay could be secured only from a 

 marsh, which was covered with water at high tide. It was wheeled out of the pit in 

 wheelbarrows and dumped on a platform, from which it was loaded into one-horse carts 

 of about one-third cubic yard capacity, hauled an average distance of one-half mile, 

 spread upon the road to a depth of 10 inches, and mixed m ilh the sand with a jjlow and 

 disk harrow. Labor cost 85 cents per day and one-liorse carts $3 per day. The cost of 

 the road to the community was $470.14, which is at the rate of $2,068.62 per mile. 



Colquitt, Ga. — The work at Colquitt, Ga., consisted of grading one-half mile of 

 earth road and surfacing with a sand-clay mixture a section of very sandy road, 800 

 feet in length. The clay, of which 1 10 cubic yards were needed for the sand-clay mix- 

 ture, wa.s obtained by trenching along the roadside and was mixed with the sand with 

 a plow and road grader. Tlu; cost of moving 800 cubic yards of earth with a road grader 

 was $24.45, or 3 cents percubic yard. All work was done by the county convict road 

 gang, at a cost of 50 cents per day for labor and $1 .20 per day for teams. The total cost 

 of the road to the commimity was $66.73, which is at the rate of $133.46 per mile. 

 Work was begun on March 10, 1910, and entirely completed on March 16, 1910. 



