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The Colorado Experiment Station. 
TABLE NO. 5.—Poured Posts. 
Size, 5x5 inches from base to ground line, tapering to 3x4 inches at 
top. Length, 6 feet 6 inches. Cured weight, 115 to 120 pounds. Mixture, 
1 part cement, 3 parts sand, and 3 parts gravel, by measure. Cost of 
cement per post, 14 pounds, 8.4 cents; sand and gravel, 1 cubic foot, 3.7 
cents. For cost of reinforcement, see table below. 
REINFORCEMENT 
TEST 
COST 
REMARKS 
Kind of Wire 
Weight 
Per Post 
Ebs. 
Cost 
Per 
Post 
Final 
Break 
in Ebs. 
Eocation of 
Break Above 
or Below 
Ground Eine 
Cost of 
Materials 
in Post 
New Wire is Fig¬ 
ured at 4c per 
Eb. and Old Wire 
at 2c per Lb. 
4 strands of 2 
wires twisted 
No. 10_ 
214 
10.0c 
218 
Ground line 
Ground line 
4 in. below 
22.1c 
Wires broke on 2 
and mixture 
broke on one 
4 long and 2 
short twisted 
strands No.10 
3 
12.0c 
330 
4 in. above 
12 in. above 
4 in. below 
24.1c 
Wires broke 
4 long strands 
old barbed 
wire-- — -- 
3.3c 
110 
Ground line 
Ground line 
Ground line 
15.4c 
Wires broke 
4 long and 2 
short old 
barbed wire. 
2 
4.0c 
118 
20 in. above 
24 in. above 
15 in. above 
16.1c 
Wires broke, 
not well 
placed 
4 long strands 
new barbed 
wire- 
1^3 
6.6c 
143 
4 in. below 
Ground line 
Ground line 
18.7c 
Wires broke 
4 long and 2 
short new 
barbed wire. 
2 
8.0c 
123 
Ground line 
3 in. above 
10 in. above 
20.1c 
Wires broke 
4 long strands 
of 3 twisted 
wires, No. 14 
m 
6.6c 
123 
Ground line 
27 in. above 
Ground line 
18.7c 
Wires broke 
4 long, 2 short 
strands of 3 
twisted No. 14 
2 
8.0c 
143 
Ground line 
7 in. below 
4 in. below 
20.1c 
Mixture broke on 
two and wires 
broke on one 
