The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-17
COST OF BRIDGE
AND ROAD WORK
ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNTY
HIGHWAY ENGINEER.
PERMANENT WORK DONE
Detail Cost of Material and LABOR. Elk.
tent of Work. Road Dragging at
Eighty Cents Per Mile.
New Highways.

Robert II. Tumy, County Highway
Engineer of Mahaska county, has COM
pleted an annual report for the year
OF 1917, copy of which was filed last
Saturday with County Auditor, r. W.
Marley. The report shows that during
the year $58,646.S0 was expended on
roads, the figures being based on
county warrants issued for the year.
Mahaska county has paid out $780,
SIo.6S for permanent bridges and cul-
verts, and $5,629.56 for temporary
structures. Repairs on wooden and
steel bridges totalled $S,405.65. For the
townships of Mahaska county sum
of $li,oo4.14 was invested for culvert
material. Only $4395 was paid for
equipment, and the county has $2,089.-
"a worth of unused material on hand
Filling bridges and culverts cost 81
400.2f, and special cases required an
expenditure of $2,21964.
Cost of Roads.
OF the $38,468.16 spent on road
work, total of S17,390.36 went into
COliSll uSIlOH, llu Dul 90,
sos in temporary highway building.
Repairs on roads reached sum of
$6,27687, and maintenance was listed
at $5,605. 47.Road equipment and I'M
US ed material represent an Investment
of $4,975.06, and special cases in road
work caused Mahaska county to dis
burse only s412.
Fifteen concrete boxes of permanent
type cost the county $6,050.S0, and 5
headwalls on culverts previously con-
structed caused Mahas-ka to pay out
S1,v83.61. Four concrete slab bridges
were built at a cost of $5,889.28 Con.
crete through girders on job caus-
ed the expenditure of $75S.40. Four
I-Beam spans on concrete abutments
represent an expense of $6,091.59.
Pipe is High.
For concrete pipe for the county
highways, Mahaska county paid ST.
366.33, for corrugated pipe $2,12O.SO,
boiler pipe culverts $1,244.54, and IL
l-Beam spans on piling abutments,
$S97.S9.
Wooden culverts' repairs represent
an item of $3,310.37, and repairs on
steel bridges sum of $4,659.25. The
amount expended on repairs on perma-
nent bridges and culverts was only
$l4693.
Miscellaneous repairs list SzS9.1O.
ror the townships of the county ST.
cd
pipe, $5,705.52 was spent for concrete
pipe, $4,4O562 was paid out for boiler
pipe, and r.-..ri for miscellaneous
materials.
Bridge Costs.
The total estimated cost of bridges
and culverts for which were prepared
in the engineers office during 1917
has been listed at $5,521.17, and the
total cost of bridge and eulvert work
constructed under Engineer Tumys
supervision placed in round numbers
It 100000
Seven and one half miles of perma-
nont road finished grade standard sec
uCn, during the year at an expense of
grade standard section at cost of
$S15. Special cases caused the dis
bursement of $S1114. The 34g miles
OF natural grade standard section tenn
porary road work accomplished cost
the county $3,808.4O. .... ...
Road Dragging.
Repairs, blade grader work not eX-
ceeding $50 per mile, reached $675.12,
and all repairs other than grader work
totalled $5,6O1.75.
The miles of road of the county
highway system were dragged on an
average of % times during the year
at an average cost per mile of $36.8S,
or so cents per mile, one round trip.
The total cost of dragging was $5,-
605.47. AS Mahaska county had no pa
troll system no patrol expenditures
were listed. --.'t
The amount spent during the year
for road equipment including all re-
pairs was $4,975.O6.
New Highways.
Fourteen and three-fourths miles of
read were surveyed by the county en-
mneer, and 12a miles were plated.
District Engineer Morrison approved
10s miles of road profile.
The Sum Total.
The estimated value of all road
work for which plans and profiles
have been prepared by the engineer
and his assistants totaled $4,000, and
the cost of road work, including re-
pairs, constructed under Engineer
Tumy's supervision was $S7,50O.
56g miles of road have been built
Is natural grade, 44a miles construct
ed to temporary grade, and 81 miles
puilt to permanent grade, and only
/ mile was surfaced.