The record-union., 1897-08-17
SURVEYOR BOYD'S ESTIMATE
ABOUT $4,000 TO BUILD THE
FOLSOM HIGHWAY.
Many Farms Encroach Upon the
Present Road and Curtail
It's Width.

Following is the report of County
Surveyor Boyd and Highway Commis-
sioners Price and Ashe to the Board Of
Supervisors yesterday on the Folsom
road survey:
To the Honorable Board of Supervis-
oass of Sacramento County-Gentlemen
Agreeable TO the order Of your honor
able board. passed August -, 1897, re-
guessing, firstly, a survey of the Sac
ramento and Folsom County road, TO
determine the location Of the existing
lines of said road. as defined by the
various fence lines bordering or en-
croaching thereon: and secondly, a
survey Of the said road to determine
the cost of improving the same by con-
structing a model roadway thereon, as
provided for in the Act, entitled AN
Act to provide for the construction Of
a State highway or wagon road from
Sacramento City TO Folsom, etc. ap-
proved March % 1S97-Stat. 1897, p.
239-the said estimate to be made IN
conjunction with the Honorable Depart
ment of Highways and Hon. c. A.
Luhqs. President Of the Folsom High
way Commission, I have the honor to
report thereon as follows, to wit:
Owing to the fact that it was mani
testify impossible to concentrate the
amount of work. which the order of
your honorable board naturally would
entail and which I had heretofore ad-
vised your honorable board would re-
quire at least forty or fifty days, into
less than a weeks time, then at my
command, I concluded, after consulting
with Messrs. J. r. Price and w. l..
Ashe, Commissioners Of the Department
of Highways, and with c. A. Luhrs of
the Folsom Highway Commission, to
prosecute the surveys first mentioned,
and further, that it was entirely i'm
practicable at this time to make any
attempt to survey the said proposed
road TO closely estimate the probable
cost of its construction on a basis OF
actual survey While in all works Of
this character it is absolutely neces-
sary to cause these surveys to be made,
before even a comprehensive plan can
be properly and intelligenly adopted,
Yet in order to facilitate this work, and
10 enable your honorable board to issue
the necessary proclamation Of special
election in the legal time requisite
therefor, We concluded to formulate this
estimate from the meager data at hand,
and which I believe VIII prove 10 be a
close approximation of the actual cost.
Acting ON that hypothesis, then, l
personally surveyed the county road
from Sacramento to Mayhews, TO deter
mine the matter of encrcac chm erts, and
directed my assistant to continue the
surveys to Folsom.
On August 18th a consultation was
of
Highways between MeSsrs. J. r. Price
and W. L. Ashe of the Department OF
Highways, c. A. Luhrs OF the Folsom
Highway Commission and myself, at
which meeting it was agreed that the
roadway should be uniformly 60 feet
wide, 20 feet of which should be mac
adamized to a depth Of 9 inches, meas
ured loose; 20 feet of earth road grad
ed and the remaining 70 feet to be used
for shade trees, cutters. and a bicycle
path along the north line of the said
roadway.
Section 2G43, paragraph u, statutes
Of 1897, provides, in defining the duties
Of the Board of Supervisors. that In
their discretion they may set apart, on
amy public road or highway, a strip of
land, not exceeding six feet in width,
for a side path" etc; and the use of
the same is hereby restricted to pedes-
trians and riders Of bicycles" etc. This
Act limits the bicycle path to a width
of six feet.
At that meeting, after determining
on the general plan just noted, we ar
ranged to drive to Folsom and return,
in order to closely inspect the road and
estimate the cost of it's construction.
Accordingly we left Sacramento on the
afternoon of August 18th, and returned
next day. compiling such notes and
data as presented themselves to our OBJ
servation. and then cCllated the results
in the estimate of cost herein attached.
While the plan Of this work TO some
extent must be made subseTvient to ex-
isting features, it is impracticable for
me at this time to present 10 your hon
orable board any detail plan or cross
section of the said proposed work The
estimates herewith presented. however.
are based on the general plan herein
above set forth
WIDTH OF ROADWAY.
The widthof existing roadway between
road fences. and the widths between
the power pole lines of the Sacramento o
Electric Power and Light Company,
bordering thereon, for the different sec
tions of roadway, are tabulated in the
following table, TO wit
Bet. Bet.