The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-27
soME SIGNIFICANT FIGURES.
They Are Wei Worth the Attention
of Our city and County AuthOrities.

They Are Well Worth the Attention
of Our city and County Authorities.
Savannah, Feb 23.-Editor Morning
News. Sir: In my letter last week I con-
trasted the striking differences. in cost Of
the citys and countys road paving with
tile same kind Of materials as appears
from the reports of Mr.. Willink and Mr.
Chaplin, respectively on Bay street ex-
tended and the Ogeechee road.
Bringing both to the same basis the com
parison showed, according to their reports,
the cost for paving to have been seeming
ly at the following rates:
Mr.. Mr..
Wiilink. Chaplin.
Per cubic yard ...-,...$ Ass 1872
Per square yard 49,. 1145 .4lS
Per running foot -. 2.672 .975
Per mile ...........s.....$ 14, $40 $5,14S00
On the assumption that the width of the
paving was made twenty-one feet, the
thickness nine inches, and that the aver
age haul of material was 1900 feet.
We learn from the Morning News, Feb.
=, 1895, that the county contracted for
crushed stone and screenings at the rate of
$l.5o per ton f. o. b. in Savannah Now
ton of crushed granite, road metal, meas
ures twenty-one or twenty-five cubic feet,
therefore cubic yard weighs about one
and one-fourth tons, and the cost was say,
$l.94 But by reference to the comparative
tables above, II appears from the deduc-
tons from Mr.. Chaplin's report that Gu
bic yard put down on the road in COM
pleted paving cost only $1.672 or about q
cents less than the contract price for de-
livery of the material on the cars in Sa-
Vannah 4A1
For the sake of further comparison, I
will venture to make the following as an
approximate estimate-subject to correc-
tion-of the cost OF the paving;
Material f. o. b. in Savannah per
CUBIC yaFd ........-...........,...Sl. "a
Transfer to c. & S. railway cross
ing, per cubic yard .................. 1919
Unloading, per cubic yard.......... 05
Carriage or haul, per cubic yard. 62A
Spreading, sprinkling and rolling,
per CUBIC yard ....,................ 26
Cost of completed paving per cubic
ydfd $1,000. ~. SO 90
Let us compare this estimate first with
the deductions from Mir. Chaplin's re-
Running foot lis .g1 IT'S
LIST. Mr.. Chaplin Mr.. Chaplin
Cubic yard $500 $l.672 81 RS
Square yard :. 70 4lS 1889
Mile ....,......$9240 90 $514S 90 1902 90
1t appears that the estimate is about
80 per cent. in excess of what Mr.. Chap
lin makes the cost of the work.
Compared with the deductions from Mr..
Wiilink' report, it is as follows
Mr., Less than Mr..
Willink. Estimate WiIlink.
Cubic yard A.5S $500 A5S
Square yard $l.145 rs 995
Running foot 2.672 LIS .922
Mile .......$l4 1906 10 $4,000 $4,S66 40
in which the estimate makes the cost
about SO per cent. less than Mr.. Willink
1t Is probable that there are some items
of cost not shown in Mr. Willinks con-
densed report which have not taken into
consideration, but I cannot see how the es-
innate can be made less than the above
with a paving twenty-oue feet wide and
nine inches thick under all the other condi-
lions.
Mr. Chaplin says In his report sit will
cost SI1a cents per running foot for road
bed twenty-one feet in width for surfacing
our public roads with crushed stone" He
must have meant this to apply only to the
part of the Ogeechee road then finished
where the average hau. was only about
1000 feet-though he does not say so. AS
SAID IN my previous article, the cart
age or haul Is a very large item of ex-
pense In roadvbuilding, and every addi-
| tional hundred feet runs it UP. On the
| Ogeechee road for the first "a miles from
the city limits owing to the convenient
crossings OF the Charleston and Savannah
and the Florida Central and Peninsular
railways, the average hau. may not have
been over 1900 feet and the cost probably
not more per cubic yard than is shown in
the tables, but beyond the
Florida Central and Peninsular railway
crossing the road was improved for a dis
| lance of about three miles, and on this
part the average haul was about one
and one-half miles Now with this aver
age haul it would be a big days work
for cart to load, haul and dump six
loads OF crushed stone. If we assume
thessize Of load at one-fourth of a cubic
yard (Which is large load, and the cost
per day OF the cart, etc, to be $3.50 then
the cost of hauling each load would be
about ~ cents. Now a running foot Of
paving twenty-one feet wide (nine inches
thicD would require two and one third
loads and would cost about 9715 cents for
hauling alone. or as much as Mr. Chap
lain reported the completed paving to
| have cost.
The analysis and, comparison might be
carried further, but sufficient has been
said, think, 10 show that from the pub
| lished reports and statements we do not
really know what the road work is act
| ually costing
In the foregoing / have only discussed
| the cost of paving and have not touched
on the other items of cost in road build
| ing. In making up our estimates of to-
tai cost we must not neglect to add the
items of the foundation work of grading,
culverts etc. According to Mr.. Chap
lain's report for the first 1850 feet of the
Ogeechee road these aggregated at the
rate of about 81, y per mile. In tive or
six miles the additional sum makes a
considerable item. Inquirer.
SCARLET FEVER CASES