The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-05
COMPARATIVE ROAD OUTLAY.


The alleged planned outlay of between $4,000 $4,000 for
bridge five miles of Oahu contract belt road would de
Quoted comparative showing leave the mile at about
$4,000 as against less than $4,000 the island of Kauai We cannot
say bridge cuve work included the Kauai estimate
but add much the aggregate cost of the latter work as
be taken from the estimate here maXmum of S2OOOO then the d
ference of favor OF Kauai is STILL in round numbers about
There is considerable bridge grading work Kauai the
Count" dsss TSse ' masadGE was
the small wooden bridges f We're replaced og SuOo ~
crete new aoor f %a f@ on q the Ta S5 se
%" 4 new 46,oo wooden bridge on
built between Ke5aha and Waiewa ,,o wac o,cad bv
new fleet higher ,,u, Wa. ron,,ooo NV
large SonGre5 S eQyeI w Tso9 Ta empoa nature IN"
Now the Kauai highways and bridges matter OF pride to the
the need If not park they sound substantial smooth
altogether competent maadamzed rural highways good enough
bridge COSTS here There is absolutely any such differ
Indeed know of valid excuse for any difference at all
Now let us comparative figures from California. in
the building Of macadam roads Stockton reports to the United States
Department of Agriculture that she built between May and September
1908 r6oo macadam country road with oiled surface
hard andese which shipped seventy miles by
foundation ours inch and oneha inches
oneha inches the The surface consisted
of oil and screenings For surfacng 5233 barrels of oil were
pcaton amounted to S695 The total cost Of stone 81 per
f. o. b. Stockton was $8534O with labor $3.50 SIS
day. and the total of the road including cve was 81 per square
yard 50 mills And the report says further "g APRAR
CULT EXCAVATION which was done at the expense OF $896
the long haul Of from road at cost Of $65OO
ton Oaus chief product Yet fraction less than $1,000
per mile is minimum price.
A ew maCadam Statistics officially reported other
mainland places: Department Agriculture grounds Washington,
$1,000 per mile, first inches thick second inches
thick with screenings wbonded surface the road twelve
wide Logansport nd shipped thirteen miles by rail-
age wagon miles, width of road twenty-five yhve
feet S4 per exclusive cuverts grading y country.
The width may be estimated these
statistics by
feet long with REINFORCED abumen walls requiring fifteen
427 pounds of steel rods and 94 feet of m-
ber total $1264' Cumberland Gap Tenn, rock
large $05O per mile Huntingdon W. Va thirty feet road
$5117.54 per mile
about average mainland cost of macadam roads
of Agriculture: Massachusetts local
5000 per mile New Jersey maximum eghtnct depth
S68 per mile minimum four-nch DEPTH $2l48 mile grading
and drainage not included
cheap California nearly $4,000 per mile Average
Observation-Disclosures of Kauai county, with similar conditions
less than $4,000 per mile -BB
What have this comparative exhibit vivid illustration OF
the reckless extravaganza of local this center OF island
politics. In all of public improvement simply
amc money and borrowed money alike We know and
emily nothing economy This shown the other
estimate of $2OOOOO for extension shown rotten work
shown call for million
for sanitation the of which the Federal government ought share
when have nothing practical show from the revolving fund
of $25OOOO by the legislature shown in scale
salaries greater many respects than the state of New York
affords the Wagescae of unsked and inefficient
public labor The trouble that have the idea that
think millions support Of for the good the
party The only practical relief far suggested economical
by with Congress half public
does those of the District of Columbia and making that there
extravaganza graft