The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
MIR. MARTIN AGAIN
DISCUSSES ROADS
Estimated Cost Of Different Kinds Of
Hard Bed Roads. Possible Bond is
sue Authorized BY Law. Taxation
to Pay Interest and Serial Bonds
Annually.


Estimated cost of gravel roadwavs
Possibly the Prentiss Higbwav ~
in course of ebnstrt1stion. giyes n,ora
trustworthy figures for estjmafing
cost Of above named kinds of bigh5
say. 1st. AS stated IA the article
published last week. the line "
Roadway hid from giioster topa,,d
Liberty. averaged s9500 nar MID
Tnis. though v5as bnjlt II sceordanco
with repulat, ,ons sent olf fro1n Washs
ington. 2nd Wiikinean fo,nty bas
finished about six miles N roaa f,om
CentreVille. toward Vnodville snd fba
straiehteaing. GRADING votF ~ Non,
about compieFed n WnoaviiIa 4
stretch of the road frnn Wo6dv;lle
toward Nataheg bas. alao, baen Am
DIeted WITH oFade yye,fs Memo afSadii,5
pressed 10 point of III linatlon. ma
Elk miles out from fls IragilIe east an
VERGE of s35O0 psr nIa MA
Gravel used "A not the l,est Tha COR
tractor claims to have lost nonev III
Els contract. This "a nnf b,iiit II
accordance win WashSnofon metboda
me- REMAINING portion IA iIa pysn-
tss HIGH gvs in Will,inson (,anl4v
nas been contraeted fcr IN hasia' Il
sneeifea+iona IN gran,
s 600 to $4,000 per mile A Sfate en.
a.Aeer IS doing the surveying. The
rayel being used between Woodyille
a5 Natchez is Of the best and n OIL
IA. 81 the vicinity az the line of
road.
The NEilRinson (,slinfv C,D,,traetor is
/. citizen of jackson. and laef SUNDAY
Ode ith the Writer rom CenlreyiIie
to qgoodyille He told Of bids On
\ mpson County roads Exhibited
,pnres showing bids on Ine COM
sirueted exclusively under Chapfer
176 of Acts of 1914. These 6gureg
we're about half Of the sun. sd on the
line Of roads to be let Under the co-
scheme named IN article IL
last week Te stated fhat the reaaon
foT the difference laws n fhe more /
sciertific ana evacfino nlane ana |
snseifiea+;ons IL tbe Wasbinpton a1t-
EE0gi4iae and " the state Bo3rd. aet- I
no II conjunction WIN the Secretary
"A a Ae4ir,riture
n P,IIlatin M 189 nranared Nv
r,baylae II Maorfa1d Senior Highuav
ISnoineer. the statement Il made. aIn /
setinafin0 fbe cosf III 4 gravel road
K ie neeessatv III consider ~ the |
aost Of GRADING ana preparing the /
snbqrade' (2l fbe purchase price of
M Gravel H e nronosed Ia use. (8l /
fba Sost ~ deliverine. IN gravel IN
M rogd snd "a fhe cost IF snread- |
ine ana cornacfinp tbe prayeln
IT being understood that local CON
-ifiogs t,s vsrv fbe cest IF such road |
The folloyina formula a
5;r,aT ID basad N fhe condifiona
9amed in PnlIef;a 469 to-s-it;
1AI Cast Of GRADING etc. estimated
II frar, III to III cents ner 81 yard
Tbie inci',aes roiIino for eornnaeting
NJ s,1boyada
mi 4 c,,b;e ward of lose Gravel
,,,srsssas II 1veiobt ordinarilv anon
pounds lose gravel shrinIys from
50 ~ 81 mar cent in volume when
soronaeted n road sn,face me
syera ~ cost of loadins, pit Gravel IN I
y, ,vssong II aho1,t 20 cents DER cubic
ssrd TIs;no steam shovel reduces
~ 50 nay eart ~ more Screening
~ Gravel costs 25 IL AZ cents per
,,,bis ~, vard That & hand screening
IT;tb fsare af IA cents Nor hoiyr. with
/, " go ~ ~ Ios5 fha aveTaoa foT baul-
~. Il * cents per ton-miie
5C9 For snreading and eonpaeting
,,.svei sbot,f slh cents ner cubic vard. /
5here iabor costs ID cents per hour