The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-02-09

job on the Good Thunder road was
$6,6b7 IL. County trucks were used
on this work and the average cost
per mile amounted to $971.02 which
was considered to be very low. The
cost per cubic yard amounted to
$6.9S with short haul of one mile
and long haul of seven miles. The
amout Of cubic yardage hauled was
During the hauling operations the
trucks used 3,S48 gallons of gasoline
ana 100 quarts of motor oil. The
dragline machinery used 975 gallons
OF gasoline and 107 gallons of motor
Oil.
For five miles of the road west of
Amboy. the cost of graveling was
$2,S65.64. County trucks hauled era
vel to the job at the rate of eighty
four cents per cubic yard. Teams,
with a great deal shorter haul, plac
ed the gravel on the job at a cost of
$1.5l per cubic yard. The total cost
or graVeAng 3h miles of the Lake
washington road to the county line
amounted to $4,32505. Cost OF the
grayeling per cubic yard was $1.46
using hired trucks at twenty cents
per cubic yard mile.
For nine miles of the. Mapleton-
Pemberton road graveled, the cost
was SIC, 5SS.3S. The average cost per
CUBIC yard was rs cents done with
hired teams and trucks. The trucks
hauled the gravel for tw enty cents
per cubic mile and the teams for
thirty cents.
1t cost S9.461.75 for the grayeling
OF seven miles of the st. Clair Penn
berton road. using teams at an aver
age cost OF Sill per cubic ward on
the road.
Vernon Center Highway
The Vernon Center road west
graveling for FIVE and one half miles
amounted to total of SS,913.2O at a
rate OF $l.S3 per cubic yard on the
road. All of the above mentioned
jobs include the cost Of gravel strip
ping, ioading, hauling, spreading,
The road from Mapleton to sterl.
ing Center which was graveled for
seven and six tenths miles had a
total cost of $4,746.51. The county
trucks hauled gravel to this job at
the rate of a fraction over Sc cents
per cubic yard on the road. This
amounted to S2,285.24. Hired trucks
hauled the gravel to the job from
twenty cents per yard mile at a
rate of $1.28 per cubic yard for a to-.
tai cost of $7,427.76, and teams haul
ed gravel that was shipped in from
Mankato and Kasota at an average
of $2.S2 per cubic yard. The total
amount of this job was $14,459.51.
On the Madison Lake road north
to the county line grayeling for 2h
miles using teams at the rate of 1882
ed to a total cost of $4,18S.17. On
| this job Emmett Smith donated l.
600 yard of gravel and Jerry Brown
donated BIG yards of gravel.
The gfaveling of the Butternut
Valley road for 11a miles at rate
OF $1.13 per cubic yard on the road,
amounted to total cost of $2,247.19.
This job is fifty per cent completed.
Expense of Gravel Checkers.
During the year the county ex.
pended $478.80 for gravel checkers.
This amount will be reimbursed to
the county by the state. The cost
of grading one half mile in Good
Thunder village cost $481, and the
cost Of grading one mile of road in
the Mapletoa village cost s1,4s5.
during the year amounted to $10,-
617.92. Of this amount the county
will be reimbursed by the state to
the extent of $1,OO9.9i. The cost of
engineering and supervising the
work was exceedingly low, being
only four per cent of the entire road
construction cost, which is usually
figured at 10 per cont. The total ex-
penditures during the year amount
ed to $198,017.43. The moneys re-
ceived by the state amounted to
SAL ,627.43. Miscellaneous receipts
amount to $673.9S.
The road and bridge levy for 1921
was 100000. Last year it was cut
to $150,000 and this year still fur
Their slice has been made reducing
the levy to $4,000. A cut of $780,,
900 having been made in the road
bridge department during the last
year.