Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-18
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Bridges Bull. Al Permanent.
The first stem o. -t1e summary %!
BRIGGS ana culve-ts represents iAs
amour. invested = permanent con-
crete structures during me year COZ
cred by the report. These bridges ana
culvarts hull, NUN berad thi-ty-four
They ranged II size from small cul-
verts up TO one six,y-toot bridge ana
hey also include & number Of con-
crete headings Cor corrugated iron cl!-
verts. The actual cost Of all this
bridge building was s=.oii.SS under the
county engineers estimate Fou.
bridges and culve-ts begun during the
year covered by the report we're not
completed Nov. ! and are not included
The estimated cost Of these is s5.e3ss ).
but part Of the cost Will be borne by
Jasper county. as one Of the bridges
and one Of the culverts are on the
county line road between Jasper and
Marshall counties.
Permanent bridges and cuive-ts we're
built in Iowa. LeGrand. Washington.
Vienna, Liberty, State Center. Timber
Creek Marion, Bangor, Greencastle,
Linn. Jefferson, Minerva, Eden, Logan
and Taylor townships.
To keep wooden bridges and Gull
verts of the county in repair the coun-
ty spent ss490.57 during the year. This
repair work consisted of new piling,
new floors, stringers and other bridge
parts. There Is a decrease of about
$4,000 in this cost. compared with the
same cost of the year preceding. The
county engineer accounts for this sat
isfactory decrease by reason of the
fact that the thirty-four con crete
bridges and culverts replaced an equal
number of old wooden structures that
would have needed expensive repairs
this year had they not been torn out
Cost Of Permanent Work.
There are a mum Der Of interesting
details contained in the report or per-
manent road work. Altho this work
was begun in small way last year,
this is the first year that it has been
carried on at all extensively since the
new road laws went into effect By
permanent road work is meant the
grading Of hills and roads to a grade
established as permanent by the state
highway commission and approved by
it. Samples OF this work are four
mile" hill and along the south" road
to State Center
Almost Four Miles Graded.
Nineteen thousand four hundred
fifty feet. or 81 miles Of highway, were
brought to permanent grade at a cost
of s1o619.4. This work was done n
Timber Creek. Washington, State Cen
ter Iowa, LeGrand. Marion and JET
ferson townships. Part Of it was done
by contract, but the most was done by
the steam shovel gang. TIE amount
of earth moved was 1882 cubic yards
The report IS illuminative as TO the
relative cost OF this grading when done
by the steam shovel and by contract.
BY contract the work cost from % 10
20 cents cubic yard One Job Of 1855
cubic yards done by the steam shovel
gang cost SO cents g cubic ward. But
the very large part Of IL cost much
less. The cost Of the rest -anyed from
q cents to - cents. -Four mile" hill
cost y cents a cubic yard. That vas
the first steam shovel JOB. Later the
cost was reduced to %, then p, then
u cents. The average cost for all Of
the grading done By the steam shovei
was 231 cents.
Repairing Roads Cost sa,16.s4.
The item Of s5,is7.s4 charged TO re-
pairing roads is for work done with
the tractor and graders. grading with
the road leveler and for general re-
pair of roads. Thirty nine miles Of the
county's road system were repa ired
with the tractor and graders. at cost
of s1,sz5I4. The townships and tbs
miles of road repaired in each with the
tractor were: Marion. 5; Vienna S;
Taylor, z; Liscomb. 2; Iowa, 5; Ban.
gor. 3; Liberty. 10: Jefferson L
Twenty miles of road were graded
with the road leveler at cost o
sl12.26. The largest single item max
ing up the total of the cost for repair
ing roads was the expense for tn
general repairs. They cost 3s,1304A
fhey included repairing corners, film;
approaches to bridges and culverts, an.
similar work
The last item Of $4,000 for cuIverts
which are classified las read work.
was mostly small corrugated steel cul
verts. Many Of these went into town
ship roads and others were supple
to lay in cutters to make approache
from the main road into door yard
and barn yards
Engineering Work Done.
a very long step was taken by tn
county engineers department IN til
survey and plating of the entire sys
tenn Of county roads. in addition to tn
work OF supplying pIans for bride
work done. During the year the dc
partment surveyed ninety-seven milk
Of roads. The engineer plated -,