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After the work of forming the roadbed has been completed, a great deal may- 

 be done toward levelling the sides, seeding, planting trees, etc., and not until 

 the road allowance between the fences is brought to a right condition, should 

 the road be considered finished. No investment offers better returns than the 

 building of good roads. 



Fig. 1020.— East Strekt, St. Thomas. 



The roadway is twenty-two feet wide, curbed with 3 x lo cedar and made of crushed stone ten 

 inches in depth at the centre and seven at the curb after consolidation with a heavy road roller. 

 The sidewalks are four feet wide of pine. The street was improved in 1895, and the above photo- 

 graph taken May, 1896. 



Residential Streets of Towns. 



The principles of roadraaking which have been discussed, draining, rolling, 

 metalling, etc., are all applicable to town and city streets, but in carrying them 

 into effect they must be modified so as to add to the appearance of the finished 

 roadway in a greater degree. The value of well-built roads in adding to the 

 desirability of a town as a place of residence and thereby increasing the value of 

 property, is greatly underestimated. So much is this the case that, while most 

 country roads are not what they should be the streets of towns and cities are 

 very much worse in proportion to the shorter road mileage and the ability 

 of the citizens to pay for suitable pavements. In every town are to be found 

 streets bordered on each side by handsome private residences and beautiful 



