The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-04-08
MURRAY KAY REPORTS
EAST SIDE SURVEY

Having made a survey o. the East
Side macadam road, which is four miles
long. Murray Kay states that he binds
the maximum grade on the East Side
10 be ll.6 per cent, while a grade at
the Slade hill is 7.2 per cent. The SIDE
bitches and culverts under the road ana
connecting private roads, he says are
not sufficient to care for the water.
With reference to a proposed i'm
proyement Of the road. MT.Kay advises
the county court, which ordered the
survey, as follows:
A road required to serve the various
kinds and qualities Of traffic andito sus-
tain the tonnage which this road car
ries, should be of fairly high grade con.
struction as to foundation. body and
surface. No low cost construction for
this road can fulfill its demands.
A high cost, so called permanent,
road is not warranted under present
conditions.
A reasonably good road of fairly per-
manent type with a low maintenaee
cost would be most economical IN this
situation. There is no method known
of applying surface treatment to this
road which will give satisfactory results
at reasonable cost. You are therefore
respectfully recommended as follows:
l. Some of the embankment on in
side If sharpest curves should be re-
moved 10 provide better sight dis
tanCes.
2 Additional cuIyerts should be pro.
yided and old ones replaced as required.
8 Ditchng should be made effective
and the bitches paved to prevent wash
ing wherC necessary.
4 The fills at Fletcher's, Wells and
Porters should be protected by sub
stantial wooden rail fence. painted
white, on each side.
3 Changes in alignment and grade
are not recommended at present on ac-
count of high cost. The alignment,
however, should be trued up so far as
possible without departing from present
road bed. The grade should he trued
up and made as nearly uniform as pos.
sible without taking off or adding more
than a minimum quantity of stone.
The crown or cross section should be
made uniform.
All dirt, gravel, etc, which is
now on the original macadam should be
removed and road surface thoroughly
cleaned. The stone should then be
broken up and respread true to alingn-
ment, grade and crown. Sufficient No.
3 and No. stone should be added and
the whole flooded with water and rolled
with lotion roller to make a water
bound surface for the first or founda-
tion course. When this is entirely dry
it should be swept clean and oil, the
residuum of which shall contain from
85 to 80 per cent asphalt having at a
temperature of rs degrees Fahrenheit
penetration of 80 degrees, District of
Columbia standard, applied at tenn
perature above 225 degrees and at the
rate of one-half gallon per square yard.
This is to be covered with One-half inch
of No. 3 stone and rolled. As excess
oil appears, il should be covered with
No. 4 stone or clean, dry, coarse, sharp
sand and rerolled until the surface is
cold, solid and reasonably smooth. Re-
sanding and rolling should continue at
intervals during the first season.
This wearing surface should give
good service for number Of years at
an annual average maintenance cost of
about 5000 per mile.
Estimated cost of this improvement
complete is $7S44, or $l96l per mile.