Annual Report of the Commissioner of Highways for the State of Maine for the Year Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... iy2 feet deep and gravel 6 inches deep, 14 feet wide; one stone culvert; width of road from ditch to ditch, 26 feet. Cost, $202.75; aid, $100. Eddington. Excavation, 58 rods, 2 to 2y2 feet deep, 10 feet wide; stone filling, 10 feet wide, 2 feet deep; covered with earth, and 4 inches of gravel 9 feet wide; and 30 rods more (82 rods in all) hard gravel road; two stone culverts; width of road, 30 feet from ditch to ditch. Cost, $285.74; aid, $142.87. Etna. Stone filling, 740 feet in length, 20 to 30 inches deep, eight feet wide; covered with earth and gravel, 18 inches deep; one stone culvert. Cost, $221.74; aid, $50. Exeter. Excavated a piece of wet road 25 rods long, 12 feet wide and three feet deep; stone filling 10 feet wide and two feet deep; covered with shingle sawdust and lyi feet of earth; one stone culvert; width of road from ditch to ditch, 32 feet. Cost, $217.40; aid, $50. Garland. Stone filling 3 feet deep, 20 feet wide and 20 rods long at the foot and up the slope of a steep hill, changing the grade to a very easy one; said filling was graveled the whole length to a depth of sixteen inches. Cost, $386.18; aid, $100. Greenbush. Graded 40 rods of turnpike, 24 feet from ditch to ditch; covered with gravel 8 inches deep; the road being all sand and not requiring drainage, the gravel makes a good surface which the road never had before. Cost, $210; aid, $105. Hampden. Excavation, 3 feet deep, 8 feet wide, 65 rods in length; stone filling, 2 feet deep, 8 feet wide, 65 rods in length; earth, 1 foot deep, 16 feet wide, 65 rods in length; gravel, 6 inches deep, 12 feet wide, 65 rods in length; width of road from ditch to ditch, 30 feet. Cost, $516.15; aid, $200. Hermon. Worked 21 rods of road; stone filling, 16 rods long, . 25 feet..