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a little over six cents per acre per year. For a 200-acre farm it is 

 $13.20 per year. Many of these men, interested in good roads, have 

 been donating more than this amount every year before the bond 

 issue, and had no roads, either. The board of commissioners of 

 the district early employed a competent engineer for supervisor, 

 and put him in charge of the field work. All bills and accounts are 

 approved by the engineer, then passed upon by the board and paid 

 by warrants, except contracts, which, after the work is accepted 

 and approved by the engineer, are paid by checks. 



The roads have been kept dragged, but the bulk of the work 

 has been, upon concrete crossings, no other kind being put in, and 

 upon grading and rocking the road surface. All the crossings, cul- 

 verts and bridges on all the main roads have been made of good 

 substantial concrete at a contract price of from seven to nine dol- 

 lars per cubic yard. 



A well-dragged earth street in Salisbury. Note that the roadway sortion is not wide, thus 

 making maintenance easier and better, and by leaving a parking on each side 

 between the ditch and sidewalk, makes the street attractive. 



The roadbeds are graded 32 feet wide and the rock sections 

 are 16 feet wide. The rock sections are class A roads, with a 

 sledge base 6 inches deep and a crushed rock surface 4 inches at 

 the center and 3 inches at the sides. Six and four-tenths miles of 

 the Higginsville road has been graded. The excavation amounted 

 to 30,600 cubic yards of earth, at a contract cost of $7,340, or 24 

 cents per yard, $1,150 per mile. 



Six miles of the Columbus road has been completed. This in- 

 cludes 3,910 cubic yards of earth excavation per mile, at a contract 

 cost of $702, or 18 cents per yard. The rock, shipped by rail about 



