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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 cubie yard, $19.32; rolling at $0.0007 per square 
yard, $2.75; loading, hauling, and spreading cinders at $0.5908 per cubic yard, 
$87.43; loading and hauling stone, $4.80; ditching, $14.69; mixing sand and 
clay, $9.80; 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 4,280 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 38-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 and placing 16.4 cubic yards of concrete at 
$2.48 per cubic yard, $40.75; cutting and placing 320 feet of steel at $0.026 per 
linear foot, $8.30; 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 $187.15 
for labor and $117.88 for material. 
The equipment used was 2 grading plows, 2 rooter plows, 8 No. 2 wheel 
scrapers, 5 slip scrapers, 1 read machine, 1 road drag, and necessary picks, 
shovels, etc. The total cost of the work, excluding the concrete culvert, was 
$1,056.70, or $0.088 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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