The Newtown bee., 1892-07-08

$500. Should run the foau sIralgh1, cutting into bank a little. Am in favor of low grades when they can be had. My estimates calculate straight cut at 2l feet, Mir Scofield followed present highway, longer road than l estimated. Abundant material in my road for all filling. Would have gutters each side IF inches deep. In actual work, cut would be deeper than stated in engineers map. Have allowed for no culverts. Rock swells about 60 per, cent, dirt shrlnks about in filling. Road bed ought to have eight or 10 inches of dirt on it. Built roads in Saugatuck, Westport, Southport, Wilton, Easton and Weston. Employ 10 to 50 men all the while. Would be ready to go to work July II, or before, if could get the contract. Can furnish bondsmen. If should have to blast out place wider than 2l feet, it would increase cost. Could blast with out carting, for 60 to 65c yard.
 Thomas Riley of Bridgeport has groc- cry and liquor store. run by his son. Has been blasting at Park avenue, 36O feet long, 26 deep, for seven years, on private property. Thinks rock could be moved and road made for $1 yard. Thinks lay out boulders, clay and spongy.
 Frank N. Higgins, farmer of North avenue, has made town and city roads for 9 years. Layout at upper end wet and springy, on side hill, boulders ana ledges. Sounded with bar all down hill- side. Thinks there are more than boul- ders there; shallow ledge. New layout would be very soft road; one wheel up on rock, other on soft ground. Breast wall on lower side only thing to ensure good road permanently. Two culverts, $50 each, should be built; $l15 cattle pass. At old road, fill of 2O5O yards !; would be very good road. Would build only one sewer, just above cut. With or dinary gutters, all trouble from water would be avoided. Would excavate and put road in order easy for $l yard for rock, 4Oc for dirt. Good country road, hard bottom and hard surface. For heavy loads, give me ll-foot grade, hard bottom all the year. In dry times and with light loads should like layout. Nev- CT built road of character of these; built road with three or four feet of rock cut Can't make layout good road without rock bottom. Good ditches and plenty of culverts wouldn't do it. Have to be practically macadam road. Six culverts ought to properly drain it.
 NF uIx hol milo cnnfh of Monroe Center. Average to use DanleFs Farm road at least once week. To Bridgeport weekly to sell butter. Never troubled with ice on hill; not often much snow there, generally blows away. Think common convenience better satis- fled with old hill graded off. Have bet ter road. Think team pull short, sharp pull better than long pull. Think it feas- ible to cut off top of hill. Should judge layout soft and springy at upper end ;re- quire more attention to make it passible. Water at top of hill would be obviated by making ditch. Prefer old hill cut down because shortest. Come by DaniePs Farm road to Trumbull, then by the pa per mill, as have brother living on that road. Talked with no one about my tes- timony to-day.
 F. w. Wheeler lives half mile north of Monroe Center. First selectman five years, town clerk seven years, now rep resentative. Use Daniels Farm road of- ten. Never embarrassed by ice or snow on hill. Judge layout would be soft. Decided improvement to lower top of hill. Old road would make first class road; better than layout. In Spring and Fall, Daniels Farm road above Edwards Beach's is muddy; hard pan all through. Favor less grades, if obtained for reason able sum. Passable road could be made by good deal expensive draining. Have hill in Monroe sleeper than this. Theory of road making that road is drained to depth of ditches.
 Morse D. Mallett of Trumbull has been assessor, selectman, justice of peace, rep resentative. Layout cuts Beach lots all out of shape. POP acres cut out of a mans farm worth more than farm taken as whole. MT Beach ought to be paid $500 to $60O. Lots now fenced with good stone walls. Temporary fence talk ed of would be down in dozen years. Hill is hard and don't blame Daniels Farm for wanting it made better. Would blow top of hill off and put it into the bottom. No need of new road. Lots of hills IA, 15 and 16 feet. Tashua hill to Trumbull bad. Ought to be stone wall beside lay out costing $2 to $3 rod. Lower side need railing to protect travellers; upper side nice place to catch snow. Old road would fill up with snow sometimes.
 THURSDAYS HEARING.
 Morse Mallett's testimony was finish ed and that of Legrand G. Beers, Homer E. Clarke, Wesley B. Coan taken; Engi- neer D. s. Brinsmade was recalled.
 Morse Mallett has always favored grading old road instead of layout. No need of new road, even if old is to re- main as it is, because Trumbull has good many hills as bad as this. Rather town would take all the farm from my hands, if they were to make road around there. Land would be left in ir- regular shapes. Don't think layout would benefit this farm in any way. Or road from Bridgeport to Tashua by l Chestnut Hill, one hill both steep and crooked. Have seen teams set there. Generally take macadamized road now l LeGrand G. Beers selectman twice constable, assessor, treasurer, justice o1 peace; had experience as appraiser First lot of layout springy. Rye Winter killed. Impossible to make good roat
 without macadamizing or stone ballast