Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-03-26
APPROXIMATE COST
OF PAVING MATERIAL
What a Square Yard Of Concrete
Paving Materials Will Cost in
Webster City.

In a former article the freeman
Tribune stated that crushed granite
laid down in Webster City would
cost $3.06 per cubic yard. We Sc
cured the price from dealers in
Sioux Falls. Since then we have
seen quotations for granite t. 0. b.
in this city at $3.50 per cubic yard.
Contractors say sand can be laid
down on the job at rs cents per GU
bic yard and that Portland cement
can now be had at 81 per barrel. A
representative of one of the Mason
City factories quoted prices here a
couple of weeks ago at $1.06 per
barrel laid down in this city.
These prices would put the ma
terials on the ground where the
work is to be done at the following
figures:
Granite per cubic yard, $2.85,
sand per cubic yard rs cents, cement
per barrel $1.10.
The plans and specifications en-
dorsed by the city council call for a
1873 mixture That is one part ce-
ment, two parts sand and three
parts granite. AS there is quite a
shrinkage upon mixing the mater
ials, it requires, to make cubic
yard of concrete mixture, the fol-
lowing proportions in cubic feet:
Cement $3.50, sand 1882, granite
1898. The cost of these materials
in a cubic yard Is as follows: Gran
lite $2.19, sand 81 cents, cement
1888. making a total of $4.3s as
the cost of the cement. sand and
granite in a cubic yard of concrete
in Webster City mixed 1-2-3. A GU
bic yard OF concrete will make 500
yards Of pavement seven inches
thick. We will call 1t five yards,
which gives us price of SO cents
per square yard without splitting
hairs or going into fractions) for
the materials on the ground.
A reliable contractor told the
today that the US
ual price for excavations in cellars.
etc, was 25 cents cubic yard. He
thought it could be done for thirty
or thirty-five cents in the street.
This will add cents to the cost.
bringing the cost up to "a cents. six
cents is a fair amount for financing
the job and in Michigan, where lots
of concrete roads and pavements
have been put in, they estimate the
labor at 16 cents per square yard
when the concrete is seven inches
thick. Hence we have a total cost
for labor, financing, excavation and
materials named of s1.16. What
the expansion joint filters will cost
the Freeman-Tribune has been UNI
able to ascertain, but that would be
a small matter, as very little would
be used. 1t is safe to say that the
entire cost of paving in Webster
City, even with the unusual and un-
necessary requirements Of the coun-
Gil, need not exceed $3.50 square
yard. not allowing any profit to the
Moreover, a reliable.
could probably get better
prices than here quoted when buy
ing in as large quantities as will be
required to make more than $4,000
yards Of paving.
Had the council seen fit to use
gravel for the coarse aggregate. in
stead OF crushed granite. (and grav-
ell is declared by authorities to be
as good as any materially, q great
saving could have been made, even
though the gravel would have had
to be shipped IN. Des Moines gray-
ell, and there is none better. can be
laid down in Webster City at $1.35
per cubic yard, or on the job at
$1.55, making saving Of $3.50 per
cubic yard or OF 20 cents per square
yard Of paving.
The Freeman Tribune has tried
to get at the exact cost OF paving
in Webster City, without any profit
to the contractor, under the specifi-
cations prepared by the council. II
there is anything materially wrong
in these figures and estimates the
Freeman-Tribune would like to have
the error pointed out.
City Has Much Coal.