The Nome nugget., 1920-11-20

cars. The month of July was excess sively rainy and the ground was wet through. making it hard to haul and requiring considerable work on all pull roads from borrow pits.
 Work was started August 18th. and finished October 18th. About l F. miles of new road was constructed. The ground over which i. was built was very wet and boggy and for 5000 feet it was necessary to lay foundation of rock on which to build the road The rock used for this purpose was hauled an average haul of about one thousand feet from Cape Nome noun tain. Six hundred and eighty three yards of rock were used at a cost of s1. 75 per yard for loading. hauling and placing. A little over a mile of grad in- was done. using q six horse team. at ;l cost of s1.0s5 .00. The roadway was made sixteen feet wide and the average cut was 2E feet The road was surfaced for a distance of one mile. The surfacins averaged about twelve inches deep and was placed on the road at a cost of g 5" per yard.
 Ten culberts were pu. in. the lum- bcr used being obtained from Ft. Davis or from purchase of second hand lumber in Nome. The total labor on culberts in place cost s216 %.
 The entire road from the 10 mil, post was ditched. From the 10 mile post to the 10la mile post. the old ditch was cleaned out and deepened. whil. from the II mile post on. ;l burm ditch was run the entire length of the road at an average distance of 1Y to 20 feet from .he road and a drain ditch was also made alongside the road and the bank sloped. A total of 12.S62 feet of ditch was constructed ;,t a cost of $12OO or at an average cost of a H.tle over nine cents foot. Two men were employed for thirty days in filling ruts levellinG the road mile post.
 One fill made at the 1lAs h,iss spos. was 1721a feet long. 16 feet wide and feet deep comprising three hundred and six yards of material. The cost was $So6 co.
 Two horpers for loading gravel into the auto trucks was also constructed from lumber obtained at F't. Davis. The hoppens were made in sections and hauled to Hastings Creek. Construc- elusive of lumber Hauling and plac- ing came to about $1OO more, bringing the cost in place to about $40.
 The entire cost of the work done or this section of the road were divided as follows:
 Rock foundation (sO00 f..) s1.195. = 25; Gr,dins. (574O fl. $1.Os5. %; Sur facing (52SO ft.) $6.6OO .0O; Culverts QO in number) $216.OO: Dtchins Q2,s6O ftD s1,2OO. %: Repairing 6 r,iies) s54S OO: Fill at 1lA mile post, UT2Hx16x3) s3O6 .O0: Hopper. s240 .OO: Overhead, hauling. etc S76o. 34; Total SIP. 1lO. 59.
 The road around Cape Nome was tt,o f1,p ida and slide was shoveled off at a cost "f $219. 50. The slope has not yet set on this road and will require work for some years to come in clearing off slides. etc.
 Only a small amount of work was done on the Cape Nome Solomon road The only expenditure on this part was for the salary of the ferryrian at Safe ty and Bonanz;,, and slight up-kecp charge Total expenditures sso5 GA
 Quite extensive work was done on the Solomon East Fork road, the to- ,al expenditure being $9.191 .49- Com menaing at the Bonanza ferry, the road wsls willow corduroyed for two thous- and feet. as q cost of S1,142. %, two culverts 2x3xl6 feet were placed at T cost of $46 0s for lumber and labor second hand lumber being bought at Solomon. The yardage cost of cor durpy was $2.64 A fill was also made on the Overland Mail trail crossing a deep slough between the road and the Post Office a. Solomon Eight loads of willows were laid in the bottom of the slough and held in place with three loads of drift logs wired so as to make complete bind ol all on which was laid sod and gravel culvert 31sx4x6 feet was placed in the middle of .he fill. The fill was made in 10 days. is 15O fee. long. II feet wide. and 4. feet high. total of three hundred and fifty yards Of ma ter-ial w;tS used in the fill, The