Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-02-02
FOR IMPROVING
VERNON STREET
Helyar' S Estimate Furnished Board
of SeIectmen is $I8,785
Includes Hardened Surface From Bridge
Street to Railroad Crossing at White
River Chair Factory.

Civil Engineer James f. Helyar has pre-
pared at the request of the seectmen esti-
mates for the grading of Vernon street and
the making of permanent highway of it.
His estimates for the roadway, sidewalk,
grading and two retaining walls which will
be necessary total $lS,7S5G7. The select
men will have an article in the town war
rant at the March meeting which will
bring this proposed improvement up for
consideration
The total length of the improvements
considered in the estimates furnished the
town fathers measured at the center line
of the roadway, is 5,l4S feet. This is from
Bridge street to the railroad crossing at
the north side of the property of the
property of the White River Chair Co.
The standard roadway for such thor
oughfare as Vernon street is Is feet for
hardened surface with three feet shoulders
of gravel on each side, total width of 81
feet. On the basis of 10 feet width there
are $3.50 square yards considered in the
estimate for the hardened surface
Mr.. Helyar recommended to the select
men that the road be built of granite
block paving grouted in cement, as is Flat
street, because of the heavy tourist travel
over it as one of the selected highways of
the state, because of the new freight sta
ton to be located there and the unloading
of bulk carloads of materials down
through the railroad yards, the heavy
teaming to the live stock sales pavilion,
the Crosby grain elevator, the White Riv-
er Chair Co., the Fort Dummer mills and
the Last Block factory. He says in his
recommendation that such a road would
cost practically nothing for maintenance
for 20 years.
In his estimates, the total of which has
been given, he figured, however, on this
form of roadway from Bridge street only
to the south end of the passenger station.
This calls for $50 square yards at an esti-
mated cost of $3.50 square yard for the
roadway alone, not including the space in
front of the railroad station. The total
of this is 1926.
The remainder of the hardened roadway
he has estimated on the basis of Portland
cement concrete construction with expan-
sion joints from the south end of the rail
road Station to the railroad crossing, which
includes total of $3.50 square yards. At
present prices of material and labor the
least this could be built for is 81 SO a
square yard, total of $1,000. This esti-
mate is based on the average of last years
contracts for similar construction in differ
ent places, with Is per cent added for
posslDle increase IN the cost OF materials
and labor.
There must be some grading for proper
drainage and he has estimated this at the
cost of $3.50.
Last year the town put in 1913 linear
feet of sidewalk on Vernon street, four
feed in width with curb This leaves
$500 feet of sidewalk to be constructed to
complete a sidewalk along the proposed
length of the improved highway, or 1913
square yards. Of this yardage $50 yards
should be built with curb. At reasonable
advance over the figures for last year the
cost of that part which has the curb
would be Sl,320, and the estimate for the
remainder is 81 334.67.
In order to maintain the width of the
roadway two sections of retaining wall
would be necessary One of them would
be between the property of the Standard
Oil Co. and Mrs. Rieys property, where
it is estimated that 1874 cubic yards would
have to be constructed. Another similar
wall would have to be constructed for the
same reason between the property of Mrs.
Riley and the pavilion of the Purebred
Live Stock Sales Co. There would be ia
cubic yards in this wall. The cost for these
two walls would be 1856, it is estimated