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The equipment consisted of a rooter plow, horse roller, grader, and wagon. 

 The total cost of the road was $913, which is $0.1116 per square yard. The 

 principal items of cost were as follows : Excavation at $0.23 per cubic yard, 

 $562.86; shaping at $0.0044 per square yard, $18; labor on culverts, $11.50; 

 end walls, $2.75; loading and hauling sand at $0.2469 per cubic yard, $169.10; 

 spreading sand at $0.0284 per cubic yard, $19.32 ; rolling at $0.0007 per square 

 yard, $2.75 ; loading, hauling, and spreading cinders at $0.590S per cubic yard, 

 $S7.43 ; loading and hauling stone, $4.S0 ; ditching, $14.69 ; mixing sand and 

 clay, $9.90 ; general expenses, $6.30 ; cement, $3.60. The above costs are based 

 upon a labor cost of $1 and a cost for teams of $3 per day of 10 hours. 



Bee County, Beeville, Tex. — Work was begun on an adobe and sand-clay 

 road extending west from Beeville toward Oakville on March 17, 1914, and 

 completed on April 20, 1914, with a loss of one day on account of rain. The 

 surrounding country is rolling and hilly. The nature of the soil is as follows : 

 Station 0+00 to station 4+00, sandy; 4+00 to 6+00, adobe rock; 6+00 to 

 17+50, sandy loam; 17+50 to 20+00, adobe rock; 20+00 to 22+00, sandy; 

 22+00 to 27+00, adobe; 27+00 to 40+00, sandy loam underlaid with red sand- 

 clay; 40+00 to 52+80, adobe rock. The road was graded 22 feet wide in cuts 

 and fills for a distance of 5,280 feet. The maximum grade on the old road 

 of 5.5 per cent was reduced to 4.5 per cent. For 4,2S0 feet the road was sur- 

 faced for the full width of 22 feet with either sand-clay or adobe obtained 

 from the right of way, and on two sections totaling 1,000 feet it was surfaced 

 for a width of 15 feet, making a total surfaced area of 12,017 square yards. 



One 6 by 2 foot reinforced-concrete slab culvert 20 feet long was built. 

 A 3-inch plain concrete floor was laid between footings to prevent scour. The 

 end and abutment walls were also plain concrete. The total cost of the culvert 

 was $254.53. The principal items of cost are : Excavation and backfill, 20 cubic 

 yards at $0,525 per cubic yard, $10.50; hauling materials an average of 3 miles, 

 $72.60; building forms, $5; mixing aud placing 16.4 cubic yards of concrete at 

 $2.4S per cubic yard, $40.75 ; cutting and placing 320 feet of steel at $0,026 per 

 linear foot, $S.30; cement, 16 barrels at $2.35 per barrel, $37.60; creek sand 

 ready for use, not including .hauling, 2 cubic yards at $1.65 per cubic yard, 

 $3.30; gravel ready for use, 12 cubic yards at $1.85 per cubic yard, $22.20; 

 crushed stone, 2 cubic yards at $2.75 per cubic yard, $5.50 ; lumber for forms, 

 914 feet b. m. at $0,033 per foot, $29.82; steel reinforcing rods, 523 pounds at 

 $0,035 per pound, $18.31; nails, $0.40; wire, $0.25; making a total of $137.15 

 for labor and $117.38 for material. 



The equipment used was 2 grading plows, 2 rooter plows, 8 No. 2 wheel 

 scrapers, 5 slip scrapers, 1 road machine, 1 road drag, and necessary picks, 

 shovels, etc. The total cost of the work, excluding the concrete culvert, was 

 $1,056.70, or $0.0SS per square yard. Labor was $1.50 per day and teams $4.50 

 per day. 



Freestone County, Teague, Tex. — The work of constructing a sand-clay road 

 east from Teague toward Dew was begun on April 2, 1914, and completed 

 April 18, 1914. No time was lost on account of bad weather or other causes. 

 The surrounding country is rolling. The top soil is sand. From 6 to 60 inches 

 below the surface clay is found. 



The road was graded 24 feet wide for a distance of 5,330 feet. The maximum 

 grade of 3.3 per cent was changed to 2.9 per cent. The maximum cut was 6 

 inches and the maximum fill 7 inches. About 3,755 feet of the road had previ- 

 ously been surfaced with clay, and on this portion the work consisted in mixing 

 sand in with the clay surface and reshaping the road. It was necessary to build 

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