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The road was graded 19 feet wide in both cuts and fills for a distance of 
1,980 feet through the entire length for a width of 14 feet, or an area of 3,080 
square yards. This was surfaced as follows: Eight inches of crusher-run field 
stone was laid in one course and rolled. Owing to a deficiency of binder in the 
crusher-run stone, sand was added; this was coated by hand sprinkler with 
about one-third gallon to the square yard of bituminous material and again 
covered with sand. 
One 4 by 38 foot stone culvert 22 feet long was laid. 
The funds were raised one-half by private subscription and one-half by the 
State. The total cost of the work was $2,551.45, or $0.829 per square yard. 
MACADAM ROAD. 
ARLINGTON, VT.—Work was begun on a macadam road extending west from 
East Arlington toward the Arlington Depot on the East Road on August 
4, 1918, and completed on October 29, 1918. Fifteen days were lost from 
various causes. The adjacent land is Swampy on the south and hilly on the 
north, with a natural soil of clay and loam. 
The road was graded 22 feet wide in both cuts and fills for a distance of 
2,004 feet. The maximum cut was 0.75 foot, the maximum fill 2 feet, and the 
Maximum grade on the old road of 4 per cent was reduced to 3 per cent on the 
new road. A macadam surface 18 feet wide, making an area of 4,008 square 
yards, was laid with a first course of 9 inches of crushed local stone and a 
depth of 3 inches loose gravel surface. No roller was used. 
One thousand six hundred feet of side drain, an equal amount on either side, 
was constructed, using screened gravel and tailings from the crusher. 
The total cost of the work was $2,603.01, or $0.650 per square yard. 
STAMFORD, VT.—Work was begun on a macadam section of the Village Road 
extending east from Stamford toward Readsboro on June 9, 1918, and com- 
pleted on October 25, 1918, with 72 days’ loss of time from various causes. 
The adjacent land is hilly and the natural soil sandy. The road was graded 21 
feet wide in both cuts and fills for 1,500 feet. The maximum cut was 1 foot 
and the maximum fill 2 feet. The maximum grade of 3 per cent was reduced 
to 2 per cent. 
A surface of unrolled macadam was laid for 1,500 feet, 14 feet wide, making 
2.333 square yards. Crushed field stone was used as a surfacing material, 
and this was laid loose 6 inches thick and then covered with a coating of pit 
gravel. Three 12-inch and one 14-inch metal pipe culverts were placed at a 
-eost of $1138.94. 
The total cost of the road, exclusive of drainage structures, was $801.98, 
which is at the rate of $0.344 per square yard, or $2,822.97 per mile. 
GRAVEL ROADS. 
ARLINGTON, VT. (No. 1).—Work was begun on a gravel road extending south 
from Arlington toward Shaftsbury on the south road on July 7, 1918, and com- 
pleted on September 20, 1913, with 24 days lost from various causes. The 
adjacent land is swampy on the east, mountainous on the west, and the natural 
soil is sandy and saturated by underground springs feeding into the lowlands. 
This greund is unstable and subject to frost action. 
—The road was graded 21 feet wide in both cuts and fills for a distance of 
4,150 feet. This was then surfaced 16 feet wide, making an area of 7,378 
square yards, with 8 inches of gravel of good quality hauled 1,000 feet. 
