Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1922-02-08


state department secured the lowest
figures on 1921 work is shown, how
ever, by paving contracts averaging
$1,000 mile below the prices paid
by counties. Il. 70
+ Another tabulation shows trunk
highway grading averaging $5,39127
mile; gravel surfacing at $3,51O.36
a mile, and paving at 1888 a
mile, the last item including fine grad
ing, culverts and all other cost figures.
Bridge Work Advanced. ~.
J. II. Ellison, chief bridge engineer
in the highway department, announced
that comparatively less bridge work
was done in 1921 than in other recent
years, but 55 new bridge projects at
an average Of $11,9S9 each made an
important addition to the program.
The engineer said that under the old
highway laws many counties put a
good percentage of money into bridges
with the result that bridge work gain
ed lead on other classes of highway
Improvement. "
Much other construction work is
listed 10 insure public safety on
road curves and fills, 126,150 lineal
was built at cost Of &C cents foot.
TO keep the grades drained and dry,
439, 514 lineal feet or nearly SO miles
of drain tile was laid at 55h cents a
foot average cost. There were also
60,773 feet Of portable culverts mainly
at farm entrances, costing $1,76 a foot,
and 455 monolithic culverts at an av-
| erage Of $705.73 each. Right-of-way
| clearing and grabbing, hand-ditching,
special blowing, cutters and catch-ba-
sins, retaining walls and minor items
are part Of the new improvements
listed.
The smoothing and other upkeep of
$6S55 miles Of trunk highways last
season took $2,224,227 of the -$3,OO0,000
fund set aside for maintenance, ac-
| cording to w. F. Rosenwald, chief
| maintenance engineer. ~.
Eighty-two cents Of each mainten-
ance dollar was paid for labor, the
summary shows. Men and teams got
43 cents of the dollar or 1864 200.
against a % cents or $624,000 paid
men and trucks In addition, laborers
took $133, 5000 cents Of each aver
age dollar. Other items making up the
dollar were about Z cents for gravel,
culverts and other materials, about 10
cents for equipment operation and less
than one cent for unclassifed items.
Maintenance and special upkeep
work on the trunk routes averaged
1924 46 a mile for the season. That
includes wages Of patrolmen-one for
each emile section--the re-shaping
and re-surfacing operations which in
Some cases ran close to new construc-
ton figures, and other like OUTLAWS.
Another maintenance dollar distribu-
ton shows 44h cents to patrolmen,
% cents for repairs and 81 cents for
betterments,> little over ~ cents
for special work and cents for over
| head expenses and superintendent OF
all kinds from executives to foremen.
Shown in another way smoothing and
mending during the season cost $144.-
70 a mile: repairs $90.17 and better
ments $69.3O; special work $5.0S and
overhead $16.21 cents a mile.
Miscellaneous Work Listed. y
:. Maintenance forces also marked the
trunk routes with the official numbers
on yellow stars, made the traffic CEN
sus, kept up the detours and did much
other special work.
Patrolling Of $685. miles of trunk
routes included the cutting of brush
along 1862 miles, cleaning of 500
miles of side-ditches and raking over
sized stones from 1861 miles of high
way. In re-shaping 1,137 miles of
! trunk routes, maintenance crews
moved 56,S46 cubic yards of earth, ex-
cavated 600 yards of solid rock, cut
So miles of drainage bitches and filed
80 bridge approaches and IL sink
holes. Likewise, re-surfacing Of $50
miles involved the placing Of 632, 1867
cubic yards of gravel, the scarifying
of 2S5 miles of old surfacing and the
huildine Of q miles of shoulders along
paving.
4 Maintenance forces built Is wooden
I bridges and repaired 19l others and
placed LOOT and repaired 1876 culverts
They built "a, $50 lineal feet of guard
rails and painted and repaired 9,5lt
feet more; placed 1920 feet of snow
fences; laid 1870 lineal feet of dral1
tile and 2,911 cubic yards Of rip-rap
) Last but not least, the maintenance
: engineer added, the forces built 6;
miles of detours and maintained 547K
miles of detOur routes
The highway equipment department
with shops at the state fair grounds
and many fleets and smaller outfits IL
, the field was operated in 1921 at al
} overall expense of $685., 1888, accord
ing to the report of r. NJ. Cooley
/ superintendent Of equipment. A div1
: sion of the average dollar spent 70
j equipment shows that about 40 cent
! was used for new parts, 80 cents TO
new machines, and the remaining 3
! cents for many small items. An ap
praisal Of the surplus war equipmen
held here together with the accumu
' lated earnings at going prices vii
!. show big gain for the state when
t is completed, Superintendent Coole
: predicted, and preliminary figure
8 show 800, 900 Of net earnings.
I Il. G. Lang, engineer Of tests, is i
5 charge Of field inspections on construt
8 ltion and also Of the laboratories 9
s 1.-THE University Of Minnesota wher
: many material and other tests wer
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