Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-09-19
COST OF
MODEL
ROAD
Judge Scott Gives the Fig
ureS Under Which Roads
Can Be Built.

County Judge ]. H. Scott, who is
also president of the Oregon State
Good Roads association, has prepar-
ed a report giving the details and
showing the actual cost of the "ob-
ject lesson" road recently built by
government experts near the state
fair grounds. The report also shows
the estimated cost of building sim
liar road under ordinary circumstan-
ces According to the report a mile
of road was graded and 1880 feet
macadamized. For a distance of
1860 feet the macadam surface was
built sixteen feet wide, the balance
twelve feet. The actual cost of con-
structing the road, including the en-
tire grade, was $2,290.
Judge Scott estimates the cost of
constructing the road under ordinary
circumstances at $252S.11. While
the government "object lesson" road
was built twelve and sixteen feet
wide, he believes a macadam surface
of from nine to ten feet in width
would be sufficient for all county
highways. He also thinks It un-
necessary to put on as much mater
ial as was used by the government
experts and believes from 1900, to
1900 yards of crushed rock per mile
would be sufficient. This. he says.
would mean a considerable reduction
in the cost of construction.
The following is the text of the
report made by Judge Scott of the
expense of making the macadam
road under the direction of the gen
eral government near the state fair
grounds:
"The road was $3.50 feet in length,
of which 1860 feet was macadam-
lied sixteen feet in width and 1470
feet was macadamized twelve feet
in width. The part macadamized
sixteen feet in width was directly in
front of the state fair grounds and
it was though best to make the road
a little wider at that point than it
was made further into the country.
THE road was constructed of
three different sized stone. The first
course was composed of what is
known as No. 1 stone. ~ inches in
diameter, and was placed upon the
road seven inches in depth; after be-
ing rolled the. voids in this course
were filled with fine screened gravel
then thoroughly compacted by ten
ton roller. The second course was
composed of what is known as No. 2
stone, " inches in diameter, and
was applied four inches in depth,
thoroughly rolled and bonded with
rock screenings, requiring about one
inch of screening to do the work.
"There was mile of grade pre-
pared of stone that cost in the ag-
gregate s414.90. The road was
practically level before the grading
begun. There were two hundred
feet of fill made eighteen inches
deep, two hundred feet made twelve
inches deep and two hundred feet
made eight inches deep. Some of
the earth had TO be hauled some dis
tance, and wagons were used for the
purose.
"One corrugated iron culvent
thirty inches in diameter and thirty
two feet in length was put in at an
expense as follows:
Cost of culvert laid down
upon ground .........$ 5000
Material for concrete bulk
heads as follows:
Three yards of sand at $3.50
per yard ............. 4.5O
Seven yards of stone at s.s5
per yard ............ 5.9o
Seven barrels of cement at
s4.15 per barrel ....... 2s.95I
Carriage on cement ....... .75|
Cost or labor In constructing
same ........ ...... lz.oO
Total cost of culvert ...$l3l.7O
"The bulkheads to said culyert
were ten fet in length. one and one
half foot on the bottom. eleven inches
on the top of the eight feet in height
from base to top.
There were also two concrete
culyerts placed In said road that
were each twenty four feet in length
and fifteen inches in diameter.
These pipes were made OF broken
stone. sand and cement. We have
not placed the bulk-heads TO them