PARK AND CEMETERY. 
356 
COST DATA ON 
Queen Victoria Park, Niagara Falls, 
Ont., has completed some interesting road 
building work and Superintendent John H. 
Jackson in his annual report gives some 
interesting figures of the methods and 
costs of this work. 
BITUMINOUS ROAD, NIAGARA RIVER BOULEVARD, QUEEN VICTORIA, NIAGARA FALLS PARK. 
RESURFACING MACADAM ROADS 
oil applied hot to this surface the road 
was satisfactory for traffic all during the 
season. 
In the fall of 1911 an experiment was 
tried with very heavy asphalt running to 
90%, remaining as a residuum after the 
THE LIGHT RESURFACING WATER BOUND 
MACADAM ROADWAY. 
Time — August 5th, 1913, to October 21st. 
Average length of haul — 3.4 miles from M.C.R. 
siding, Chippewa. 
Area treated — Length 14,i625'=2.77 miles; width 
18'=29,250 sq. yards. 
The maintenance of the macadamized 
roadways is entailing a large item of ex- 
penditure, particularly from the heavy 
teaming caused by power company con- 
struction. The usual treatments of asphalt 
were completed early in the season and 
blinded in with fine limestone and in 
some cases gravel, but with the heavy 
traffic this was found to cut through in 
places, and a rutted condition was the 
result. To properly repair this a new 
method was adopted last year, namely, to 
apply the rocmac process to each separate 
depression and rut. The worn area was 
carefully picked out to a depth of about 
three inches, and limestone screenings 
mixed with the rocmac solution placed in 
the bottom. Two-inch limestone was then 
added, and the whole rolled and consoli- 
dated to form a new crown to conform to 
the section of the original roadway. This 
method has been particularly successful 
on the main drive, which has perhaps the 
largest and heaviest traffic of any road 
on the park system. With the asphaltic 
distillation of the lighter oils from natural 
asphaltic products. The manner of this 
construction was to lay two-inch stone 
upon a consolidated subgrade and pour 
in the asphalt heated to about two hundred 
degrees, and then to roll the metal thor- 
oughly after blinding in with fine lime- 
stone. This plan proved successful in con- 
solidating the road metal, and but for a 
small area that was constructed in cold, 
wet weather, where a proper bond could 
not be obtained, the roadway was very 
satisfactory for traffic, and entirely shed 
water without allowing it to pentrate 
through. 
In finishing up a five-mile stretch of 
Niagara River Boulevard a detailed table 
of cost data was kept. Part of the mileage 
required a light resurfacing, and another 
portion required the entire reconstruction 
of the top courses. For these two opera- 
tions the following figures will show in 
detail the amounts that were spent per 
square yard : 
LABOR. 
Per 
Total 
. Sq. Y<1. 
Loadng 2" Stone and Screening 
s. .$232.50 
S cts. 
Hauling 
. . . 442.95 
1.51 
Pumping and Watering 
. . 45.29 
.15 
Repairing Roadway 
.94 
Rolling and Spiking 
. . . 97.29 
.33 
$1,093.27 
3.73 cts. 
MATERIAL. 
2" Stone — 205.5 tons at $1.25. 
. . .$256.88 
.SS cts. 
Screenings — 150.2 tons at $1.00. 
. . . 150.20 
.51 
$407. OS 1.39 cts. 
Total $1,500.35 5.12 cts. 
Remarks: 207 cubic yards of Stone and Screenings 
were placed on 29,250 square yards. 
1 cubic yard of Stone and Screenings was placed 
on 9S.5 square yards. 
Ratio o<f 2" stone to screenings used — 1 to .731. 
Ton-mile cost of hauling materials — 36.2 cts. 
Wage rates: — Teams, 55c per hour: laborers, 22c 
per hour; foremen, 30c per hour. Cost per mile, 
$540.00. 
THE HPUVY RESURFACING WATER BOUND 
MACADAM ROADWAY. 
Time — A gust 1st, 1913, to December 15th. 
Average length of haul — 1.98 miles from Black 
Creek siding. 
Area treated — Length 14,467'=2.74 miles; width 
18'=28,934 square yards. 
