The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-05-02

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Dor $50. stock SO. 1900 sq.yds l -
inches thick cost Sc sq,yd. $142.56.
| Regarding and GROWING Newcastle
st. from First ave. to the Boulevard.
IL mile in length. cost for labor $50
stock S24, total $S4.
Norwich street: From First to Sec
ond ave. $50 lin. it. was graded and
shelled, using 2400 bu.shell at lie
/ $50 and 500 bu. at &c SIG, labor S52. So
stock SIG. 500 sQ.yds at CSC, S144.5O.
| Norwich street: From Q to Fourth
st. and Fourth st. from Norwich to
| Newcastle and Palmetto cemetery
road TO the city limits, a total distance
of one and twO-tenths miles has been
regarded, crowned and resurfaced. us
ing 5000 bu.shell at lie SIS and ap-
prox. 10, 600 blu. shell at &c not yet paid
for, labor to date S300.50, stock haul
ing s66, dragging $36, cost to date
| S477.50. Estimated for completion
| $500 additional, making the work OF
resurfacing which covers 5000 sq.yds.
cost lie sq.yd.
| ] street: From Reynolds st. to New
castle st. 315 Unfit. 40 .sq.yds, cost for
shell 2045 blu. at 1-2c $5112, labor
S14, stock 81, cost per sq.yd Is lie
for average inch thickness, total
s72.12
Resurfacing Boulevard: From the
| A. B. & A. Terminals to Gloucester
ST., distance of one and three-fourths
miles was regarded, roadway crowned
and widened using principally the shell
in roadbed and 1910 bu additional
This driveway is now in fair condition
but if it is to be maintained as pleas
| lrix CHI he cd Will II
some hard material within six months
las the present wearing surface is very
thin and will not hold up under traf-
fic for more than few months. Shell
for this work cost $392.75, labor $165.-
so, stock hauling $74. stock dragging
$40 Amount of resurfacing 1000 So
yds. cost lie sq.yd, $65225
Resurfacing south Union street:
From Dartmouth street to the Boule
ward a distance of one-half mile the
edges of the existing shell road were
ploughed and thrown to the center us
ing only the material in the roadbed
Labor cost S100.75, stock $4,000, 5000
sq.yds worked at a cost of only 1-2C
per sq.yd. total, total $124.75.
General repairs to shelled streets
Repairs were made with dead shell
on the following streets; Union 1926
bu.; Gloucester 1860 bu., Reynolds
$3.50 bu.. Richmond 1880 bu., Glynr
ave- 1850 bu., and Bay, F., G, Prince
Ellis and George 3044 bu., total OF
1914 blu. at 1-2c $461.4O, labor
$155.6S, stock sos, cost of repairs
SIPS.
Street sprinkling: The sprinkler
ran 72 % days at a cost of 500 fol
labor and $14533 for stock, total cost
sprinkling, $254,93.
Stag paving: During the year Ale
tons of Stag was used and this mate
rial is proving very satisfactory sub
stitute for shell the cost is about q
per cent mroe than shell when boil
are in place in the roadway and from
cloe observation it is my belief thai
it will prove much more durable thar
shell, probably lasting three times as
long as dead shell and twice as Ions
as live shell.
Gloucester street: FRom Union st
| to Cochran avenue begun in 1914 com
: pleted in aJn. 1915. surfacing 700 SO
2 yds. over shell, using 80 tons of slat
placed IL inches thick costing fo
/ Stag $3.50, labor SAT, stock SIS, tota
: cost zoe sq.yd., $4,000.
4 Newcastle street. In front of thu
city hall 20 tons was spread over 30'
su.yds 2 inches thick after rolling
this cost 16c per sq.yd. or for Stag $4Z
labor Sc, stock 81, total $52.
On Newcastle street south of Han
over square to near First avenue.
distance of 1920 lin, it. a 10 #. roat
was constructed of Stag averaging
| inches in thickness and laid on worl
e out shell road. 1856 tons of Stag wa
used costing $747.46, labor $995s
s stock $40, 5000 sq.yds. laid at cos
} of 80 1-2 per sq.yd. Total cost, $917.31
k Road Binder Experiments: Tarvi
r was used as a binder on one block o
). the Stag road on Newcastle st. be
o tween London and Prince SITS. 1t wa
d applied without heating, using 5-6 ga
g to the sq.yd. in two applications and
II penetration of from Ia to ! inch wa
( secured. The cost per sjuare yd wa
|, 81 10c, 472 gal. Tarvia SABA, spread
l. ing $S75, stock 81, total $3.50
It 10 bbls of Standard Oil Co. asphal
binder was purchased but arrived lat
D. in the fall and will be used durin
e next summer. this cost $4257, maxim
r a total for experiments of S94.86.
: A small amount Of Tarvia was trie
e on a portion of shelled street and afte
six months has proved remarkabl
e satisfactory.
Ballast: Approximately 900 tons 0
S Stag rock, cinders and sand ballas
was unloaded from two barks and
L being used for filling and bulkhea
l. work Material cost $50 labor $9261
+ stock $42, total cost zoe ton, $18461.
Grading and filling: The low
l. streets in town commons around Cor
s don q G and ] streets, and johnson
!. and J, also johnson and G, have beef
g raised, using 1850 cu.yds of fillint
d which was graded from high streets
d hauled and spread. On Fourth st. cas-
of Norwich 200 cu.yds. Of filling wa
used and in Kaiser park 325 cu.yds
Various other places aggregated so Gu
yds. total of 2725 Gu. yds. cost fol
labor $525.17, stock $546. an average
} cost of 39c GU. yd., total $1,01717.
Hauling cinders and miscellaneous
materials: During the year 3125 sin
gle loads Of cinders, brickbats, plaster
' ing, ashes and miscellaneous mate
7 rails have been moved to sand streets
. and used as surfacing or for repairs
to cinder streets. The average cost
| per single load of one-half ton was
26c, labor $490.12, stock 1927, total
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