Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-10-16

nov Good Highway. May Ne Made very
theapiy.

uow Good Highways May ne Made Very
Cheariy.
Talking TO Mr William Hufter. Of
Maryland, who has been building roads
between Baltimore and the upper Poto.
me, he gave mo the following inforna-
aon'
The latest thing isa road grader drawn
by six horses. which cxcayatos fills holes
and makes In general the grade conior.
nation OF your road. It does tho work Of
about forty men. and men who work on
roads require some competition Of this
kind. especially when thcpolit.cians con.
troll the roads The best machine Of this
kind IL made AZ an obscure town In Penn.
sylyania and costs 500 10 500 Counties
aro procuring the machines, which ate
especially effective Tor regarding old
roads aud opening new roads OF course
they will not pull out stump nor 40
through solid rock. but yon can dispense
with many cart and horse and wheel.
barrow with such a machine.
have recently been making a turn
pike about dS miles long from little
village called Dowusvilist to Hngcrltown.
public spirit came FROM men Of that surly.
gossiping elias Of neighb1rs who would
rather smile at your failure than zee you
help the community Sometimes we
could not got enough persons to under.
take to do anything. we had too many
Observation-Disclosures therefore wofc
required 10 have seven for quorum.
seven directors are plenty, and you can
often get four mon together when 1t
would BIO impossible 10 got seven Tho
want OF public spirit Is painfully visible
In old states like ours, especially In tho
old German parts, whcrc money and
greed are the animating principles SIN.
ypcrcvcruncc, We got our road through,
and 70 will those who work much aud
wait a very little. Ia our part Of tho
country we have Limestone, but have 10
send Il half a milo to milo and some.
times longer than that. from the quarry
limestone makes rad which quickly
crushcs, but has 90 DO rcplonishcd moro
often than harder stone roads The com.
mon mountain sandstone or even ilut,
win make u good road In time. and 1t
will wear long.
10 mako a cheap road prescribe rs
follows Raise the middle 81 tho road
ak inches nboyo the grade level. make
your rUadbcd sixteen foot wido, 20 that
heavy teams can get past, break your
stone 10 that IL will pass through 81
Inch ring pat ak inches above tho limo
Ia the middle and sixteen inches below
tho horizontal line. and thus tho average
OF your broken Stone will boz about lOt
inches. this will spread three feet on
either side by travel, making your road
finally twenty-five feet wide Stone
ought to DO broken aud computed by tho
perch or rod, namely, q pile lGi foot
long, ! foot high and u foct wido. in
our example II ms cost thirty cents to
quarry this stone, fifteen cents TO haul
aud twenty-five cents 10 break II per
perch. OF seventy cents per perch.
In a rock country 1t ought not 10 cost
more than twenty-five 10 thirty cents to
get the stone on the road S2t pcrches OF
stone will make 100 feet Of road 10 feet
wide and i0i inches thick. II will take.
therefore, about $500 pcrch1s to tho
mile, and suppose you get much OF this
NJ thirty cents to deliver tho stone aud
twenty-five cents TO break II, or fifty.iyo
cents for road favornbly situated to-
ward stone. With $500 pcrchos to the
mile, at ffty.iivo cents, tho cost will be
| $3.50 10 the mile You must add to thi.
about 500 TO grade tho mile. This In.
cludes taking the rocks out Of the road.
which arc afterward used and broken
upon It. Il pays to use these stones In
every cnso that have found You mus,
grade them six inches high at the center.
and thon you begin the stone. By pas5-
ing the rake over the top you eau grade
the ground we'll enough, generally speak.
ing.
As to breaks in tho road which are
used ia this part Of tho country to run
the water Oh without underneath drains.
II Is still tho cheapest TO pass tho water
across the road top. and 1 suggest that
you make these breaks about fifteen 20
eighteen feet long 80 that your wagon
need not DO thrown Violently against the
opposite bank. In some cases Il Is hes,
10 pass tho water undor tho road, and
tho cheapest way TO do this Il by boards
/ fAilSaN 9NA A'fN 0RtA EAkAiA NNNAAl
two feet wide, made Of e.inch planki
at ~ cents foot, Il will cost you
perhaps fyo dollars apiece for each Of
these gutters They can DO made
however, out Of tho rough stone nj
little moro expense The tToubl,
about underneath cutters Is that thcy
ill up, unless you mako them wild,
enough for somebody to so In and clear
them out.
Persons who build roads ought not :,
pRy more than twenty. cents per
perch to break stone; ono man with q
ring hammer, finding his own hammer
which costs him scyenty-tvc cents per
haps, can break from four 20 six peruhes
u day aud thus make his dollar or more
according 10 his industry They ought
to break the stone sitting down; they
can 10 II much inster In that way thar
by standing up over II. 10 break rocl
on the road into large stones ten pount
tledge Is big enough. -Gath IN Cincin
natl Enquirer,
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