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Show FORD OF MASONRY LESSENS' DANGERS Washington County Has Set Example in Overcoming Menace of the Floods. Tn "Washington county of this state, where the topography Is rugged, the population pop-ulation scanty and scattered, and the money available for road building is limited, lim-ited, a masonry ford has been built on a state highway Instead of a bridge, j The stream crossed in this way has a sandy bed. which iB dry during- a considerable part of the year. A bridge would be expensive ex-pensive in itself and require expensive embankments for the approaches to It. The ford is 180 feet long, including the 10 per cent grade running down from the roadway at each end to the submerged portion. It was built by constructing along the up-stream line of tlie crossing a wall of large, dry stone, two foot wide and four feet dejep, with its top level with the stream bed. This was laid without mortar, but a mass of clay sixteen inches thick was rammed against the full depth and length of the up-stream face. A wall of the same dimensions, but luld in lime mortar, was constructed parallel with it sixteen feet down stream. The sand between be-tween these walls was then dug out to a depth of two feet and replaced with rough rock, laid In a dense mixture of sand and clay. In this way a twenty-foot twenty-foot stone roadway, not likely-' to be undermined un-dermined by any floods, rough enough to give a good footing for hordes, but not so rough as to offer any obstacle to the passage of vehicle?, has been constructed at a low cost. Heretofore tlie sandy character char-acter of the ford made it treacherous during dur-ing floods. |