Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-12
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block paved area here Ct approx
mately $3.50 square yards, tie
replacement of which, allowing for
reasonable salvage, would cost 500
195, vitrificd brick being the paw
ing material contemplated in th,a
estimate A 5-inch reinforced con
crete pavement laid upon the exist
ing concrete base underneath the
wood block surface paving, would
cost. Engineer Wheatley estimates
$74,500, or $14.83 per cubic yard.
The cost of repairing the existing
wood block pavements, he estimat-I
ed at $1.83 per square yard.
Mayor Poole favored repairing
the block pavements, salvag;ng
those blocks where this appeared
possible, and re-iaying blocks else
where, with expense kept at a MIN
imum.
Mr. Sheffield said he was viii
ing to leave the type of pavement 10
BE- adopted to competent engineers,
but that in his opinion the wood /
block pavements here row are "all
to pieces He was opposed to the
policy Of patching, and while he
favored brick as the re-paving ma
terial,. was insistent that the Job /
should be done right. Some oil
the wood blocks might te salvaged.
he said, and even used as service
able pavement during, perhaps, ali
long as 25 years to come, but this
could be brought about Only through )
tearing al Of the blocks up, careful
" inspecting the mand re-qyingl
onlyMtlose found to be il useful
condition. Wherever these blocks
could be used again, Mr.. Sheffield
thought il would be best to lay them
in the center of the street, one.
third wood bloc; and cl each side
vne-third brick or other suitabh
material. He favored a 100000
bond issue and was of the opinion
that these securities could he
f1oated on the present market at
"a IL per cent
Mayor Poole said he believed
that $4,000 would be sufficient to
effect imperative repairs to the
pavements at this time; that the
job could be done by selling bonds
in $4,000 units, using the city's I
own forces and with little Interrupt
ton to traffic He diu not think
IT would be necessary to sell the
bonds any more rapidly than need
ed to carry on the WORK.
- Mr.. Sheffield said at this june
tufe that in his opinion it would be
impractical to sell bonds in such
small units; that desirable DISPOSE
ton of the securities in such blocks
might prove difficult. In addition,
he said, the wood block ravements
are going to pieces rapidly, and
that salvage easily possible now
might have entirely disappeared !
within six months.
w. C. Cage, former district high
way engineer here, said that in his
opinion it would not be practical to
repair the blocks as they now are,
ss{ut that it would necessary to take
them dpMnd relay them entirely in
order totsaivage the blocks that are
actually serviccable at this time.
He had not inspected the pavemonts
and Offered no suggestion as to the i
Quantity that might be salvaged.
Engineers, he said, had discover
cd just after the war tina; the prir
ciple of laying wood block pave.
ments upon sand cushions is in I
error. These blocks are no longer /
being laid in this manner, he said.
apd .1nstead they are now being laid +
N hot asphaltic oil, the whole being
made Sealed job" throughout /
thus preserving the wood indefinit.
~ by preventing water getting un-