730 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The total cost of the rond to the coninuinity was $311.20. which is at the rate 

 of 3.31 I'onts per sqiiiire yard for the liuished surface, or $311.20 per mile. 

 Prison labor cost (>0 cents per 10-hour day per man, and teams cost $1 per day. 

 The work comprised 0,400 square yard.s. 



MoREHEAD City, N. C. — Work bepan at Morehead City on June 12, 1911, and 

 was completed on June 25. 1911. The road is the Mansfield Road running west 

 towai'd Newhern and extends through level country with a very sandy sub- 

 soil. A total of 1,200 feet was graded 30 feet wide and surfaced with sand 

 clay 14 feet wide with 8-foot shoulders. The maximum grade was reduced 

 from 1 per cent to 0.5 i)er cent, and the work was done with a 2-horse road 

 machine, carts, and small tools. The charge for this grading is included in the 

 surfacing of the subgrade, which cost $3G.20. Three hundred and eleven cubic 

 yards of clay were hauled from a pit for an average of two-thirds of a mile, and 

 ^•ere spread to a depth of G inches. The road was linished with a crown three- 

 fourths inch to the foot. The unit cofjts of the clay wore: Loading, 11 cents 

 per cubic yard; hauling, 19.3 cents; spreading, 2.1 cents; and stripping the 

 clay pit and constructing the approach. $23.20. 



The total cost of the work was $223.45, which is at the rate of 11.9 cents per 

 square yard, or $982.08 per mile. The work comprised 1.866 square yards. 



WiLLiAMSTON. N. C. — This work v.as begun on April 17, 1011, and was finished 

 on May 24. 1011. The improvement is a section of the Hamilton Road run- 

 ning northwest and lies in a rolling country witli a soft, sandy subsoil. A 

 distance of 4,000 feet was graded, 3,000 feet of which were surfaced with sand 

 clay to a width of 16 feet, and finished with 4-foot shoulders. It was necessary 

 to excavate 3,471.2 cubic yards at a cost of 23.1 cents per cubic yard. This 

 work was done with a grader and five drag slips. One rein forced-concrete 

 culvert, 2 feet 2 inches by 2 feet 6 inches by 20 feet, was built at a cost of 

 $100.31. Brick abutments for a wooden deck culvert cost $227.56. Two vit- 

 rified-clay pipe culverts of 18-inch pipe, 25 feet long, and a 12-inch pipe, 26 

 feet long, cost $50.77. The pipe culverts were finished with brick end walls. 

 There were 622 cubic yards of surface material hauled at a cost of 39.4 cents 

 per -cubic j-ard and spread for 1.6 cents per cubic yard; shaping the subgrade 

 cost $32.75; and the total cost of the road was $1,468.81. which is 27.5 cents per 

 square yard, or at the rate of $2,.584 per mile. These figures apply both to the 

 5,333 square yards surfaced and to 1,000 feet of unsurfaced grading. They 

 are based on labor at $1 per day of 10 hours, and teams, without drivers, at 

 $2.50 per day. 



Wilson, N. C. — Work began at Wilson, N. C, on May 17, 1911, and was com- 

 pleted on June 23. 1911. The road is the Raleigh Road running west through 

 comparatively level country and underlaid with clay. Four thousand three 

 hundred feet were graded to a width of 34 feet in the cuts and 26 feet in the 

 fills, and surfaced with 16 feet of sand-clay mixture and 5-foot shoulders. A 

 2-horse grader was used for this work. Three tile culverts were required, 

 two 12 inches and one 15 inches in size. These culverts were finished with 

 brick end walls and, in addition, 1 culvert was repaired, lengthened with 6 

 feet of 15-inch tile, and brick end walls were built; 1,387 cubic yards of earth 

 were excavated, of which 420 cubic yards were hauled an average distance of 

 510 feet. The excavation cost 15.7 cents per cubic yard or a total of $218.68. 

 The grade was reduced 0.5 per cent from a maximum of 5 per cent. The sur- 

 facing material was obtained from a pit li miles from the road, and cost as 

 follows: Stripping and loading, 13.3 cents per cubic yard; hauling, 49.1 cents 

 per cubic yard; and spreading, 0.8 cent per cubic yard. This material was 

 mixed with a disk harrow to a depth of 8 inches at a cost of $29.65. Additional 

 items of cost on this road were as follows: Preparing the subgrade, $835; 

 final shaping and incidentals, $27.56; drainage ditches, $18.97; end walls for 

 the culverts, $33.02; culvert pir>e, $97.40; and labor for this, $3.29. 



The total cost of the road to the community was $1,228.29, which is at the 

 rate of 16 cents per square yard, or $1,508 per mile. Prison labor cost GO cents 

 per 10-hour day; 1-horse teams, owned by the county, 60 cents; 2-horse teams, 

 •$4 ; and 4-horse teams, $8 per day. The work comprised 7,644 square yards. 



Carnegie, Okla. — The road runs north toward Alfalfa, through rolling coun- 

 try for a distance of 9,800 feet, and the subsoil is alternately sand, loam, clay, 

 and mixtures of these in varying proportions. The work was commenced on 

 March 6, 1911, and was completed on April 28, 1911. The entire job was let to a 

 contractor on a unit price basis. The road was graded to a width of 24 feet and 



