The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-18
NOTICE THESE FIGURES.
Comparative Cost of city and County
ROnd Paving.


Savannah, Feb. 16.-Editor Morning
News: In the Morning News of Jan. 10,
last, are given extracts from an "addi-
tonal report of Commissioner of Public
Works Willink, showing the amount and
cost of the several kinds of pavement put
down in the city during the year 1896. In
the part referring to Bay street extended.
there is a most astonishing contrast in the
items of cost as compared with report
made by County Commissioner Chaplin.
chairman of roads and bridges, Dec %.
1895, on the cost of the work done on the
Ogeechee road with the same kind Of ma
terials.
To illustrate my meaning more fully, 1
quote from both reports. Commissioner
Willinks report News, Jan. 70, 1890 says:
"The following tables show the completed
work
bay street extended-material rock and
ebert. 4,977 square yards; total cost, Sc, 1925
erage cost per square yard of paving these
streets, which is the cost attached to paw
ing and not including curb or catch basins
street extended-cost Of paving, $5,Ol4. S.;
cost per square yard, $i.00S
The pavement of Bay street extended,
ebert surface of three inches on crushed
rock foundation of six inches is highly
spoken of by the commissioner. The cost
of this paving 1t will be noticed is very
moderate"
In the News of Dec. 2S, 1895. we read:
"A meeting of the county commission
ers was held yesterday afternoon for the
purpose of receiving the report of the COM
TO the paving of the portion of the Ogee-
chez road between the city limits and the
Charleston and Savannah railroad cross
''The report showed that the total cost
of paving and grading the 1850 feetaof road
between the points mentioned. was $5,060. rs
The commissioners Were all agreea bly,
surprised at the moderate cost of the
work. The report Is as follows:
THE committee on roads and bridges re-
spectfully submit the following report as
to the cost of improvement on the Ogee-
chez road:
For surfacing 1850 feet. from the
city limits, tWenty-one foot road
beu y, gig 20
FOf grazing, etc. ...................... as. lf
For building cherry drain culvert.. l2795
For building Minis drain culvert.. 25547
Total ...,............,... 5000. Is
From the above figures It viii cost s7iS
twenty-one feet in width for surfacing
our public roads with crushed stone Re
specially submitted, w. r. Chaplin
Chairman Roads and Bridges Commit
tee.
- 'The following order with ref
eronce to the continuance of the work
OF PAVING the puDltc roads was unani-
mously passed: BY Commissioner Chap
lin. ordered that the committee on roads
and bridges Is hereby authorized to sur
face the Ogeechee road with crushed stone
10 the SeVen-mile post, and that improve
ment OF a similar character be made on
Bay street extended from Schwarz ave-
nue. TO the Dundee bridge, on the Au-
gusta road.
THE committee on roads and bridges
WIS heartily thanked by the board of
commissioners for It's report, as was also
Superintendent r. j. Wade, who has so
ably conducted the work OF road building
ana repairing"
on both the city's part of Bay street ex
tended and the county's part OF the Ogee-
chee road the same kind of material was
used. Both, / am told, were paved 10 "A
with top covering of three inches OF
other material
To get az the comparative cost Of paving
per square yard we must determine the
number of square yards I'm each and the
total cost OF paving, exclusive OF other
Mr.. willink gives for Bay street ex.
paving Of S5,0l4.35, or $1.00s per square yard.
MIR. Chapman gives for the Ogeechee
road, 1850 feet In length by twenty-one
feet In breadth (two and one-third square
yards, nine inches thick. per running
fooO, a total OF $50 square yards az a
cost of paving Of $4,000, or about S04lS
per square yard. Thus we have the cost
Of paving alone per square yard. OF
Bay street extended, per Mr.. VIII
INK .sssss.s....s.ss.s.... .....s4........Si O08
ogeechee road. per Mr.. Chapman. AIS
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In favor OF ogeeche road per square
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