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Show PUBLIC HOAO BlIluOlNG. ttow OcwkJ lllfihwsra fsr e Msde Tsry t he. ply. Talking to air WillUm Huftor, ef MnrjUml, ho tut Uen bu ill In 2 ntds betwrcn II Hi mt re ami tho un-r Polo-siac, Polo-siac, he gaTo mo the tullowln Infuttna- aon The latnt tiling I a roaJ (traJir drawn by fix hone, which exraratra, Alia liolca andtnakcaluknerAl tho crude coiifor tnatlon of yoar roaJ) It doe tho work of about forty men, an 1 mm who work on ronels require lome competition cf (his kliul. erjiedaUx when Iheiwlltidaniicon trol lb ro.i. Tbe Lnt machine of this kind li mad at an obscure town In 1 Van yIrnnlaatilcwtfV)Otof,0 Uountlea are procuring the machine which ate r-pnrlally rlTi-clIra fur trgradin g tutda and oi-nln new road. Of courw they will not juttl out itninrm nor ko through solid rrx k, bnt yon can IUiwne v.-itli tnntty a cart an I horte au 1 w hei U barrow with inch a midline. 1 haro rtccntly Uen innkln? otutn-Jrtko otutn-Jrtko nt-ont lx luilea long from a Ittlte lilAgoLal1MIJwiivllMolIa,fcrttowm tho tirual dlscotirattemriia cf men of I ublic rjtlrit caiui from im n of that surly gol ln cIum of neighbors who wooll ratlifr emllo at your failure thai st yti help tbe vummanlty Boimtlmc we couU bot ct enough person to under tike to ld anything we had too many director twelve and therefore wero required to Iiib seven for a qnornmt seven director are plenty, and you can often pet four men toKether when It wuul 1 Iw Impoulble to get aercn Hi i want of ptibllo rpfrlt painfully vtslblo In old itate like our, eepefilally In the old OcrmAti imrts, whero money ant frrtdnrethiianlmatlnprlnclplca Btl'l, b nw tranc, wo jot our ro.t 1 Ihrotitfb, and ikj will those who work lunch ami waft n itf little In our lrt of tho country w e lint o llmcktonv, tut have li actid it luilf a inilo to a luflo, and some tlmre longer than that, from tbe qorryj lltnntone intii a rund wldrai quickly cnifhc. but ha to li ttpleuUlitHl tnoro often than Inrdcr itonc roads. 1 bo com mm mountain runlvtone, or even Iltnt, vill make Rood luad in time, and It will eir lon. To ranko a cheap rnnd I pnwcrlbo ni follows i Jtntsotbo middle tf the road six loot)' aWo the gmd level, make your ruadlMd sixteen feet wldo. ao Hut Lary train can get itt break )our ttonoro that It will ptM throunU n2i-IiilIi n2i-IiilIi linxt put lx hielwp nlovn the lino lit the middle and sixteen Inch below the hortjwutal line, and thu the nt?rae of your broken lotto will l about 1UJ lmliMt tht will apreal three feet on cither aide by t ravel, making yonrroid finally twent)-two feet wide, bione ouht to bo broken and computed b) t iieich or rod, timuely, a pile 10) fwt ou.tfoot blitU an lli feet wllo In our example It lias oust thirty cent to quarry ttili Hone, fifteen cents to haul and twenty live cents to Iruik it ir prrcli, or t onty cents per tcrclL In n rock country it ought not to cot more than twenty-live to thirty cents lo get the atone on the roa lj hl iH.rches of atone will make 100 fett of rati 13 feet wide and 101 lnchr thick. It will take. I am fore, about S,K0 perdu s to thu mile, and suppose j ou get much of this At thirty cents to deliver the stono and tn cnt) live cents to break it, or fifty fire cents for a road favorably sltnatcd toward to-ward stona With 5.W0 pcrchc to the mile, at Cfty-fho cents, tho cwt will be fl.310 to tlm mile. Voit in Hit ad 1 to this about 100 to jtraJe Iho tulle. This includes in-cludes taking the rocks out of the raid, which are afterward usod and brokin upoult It pay lo na time stones in every case that I hare found Yon most irrade them six Inches bl-xU at thocrmtcr, and thou )OU brjiu tho stone By pas ing the rake over tho top you con trale the ground will enough, cxnerally ipcAk lug As to IreaLs In the roid which are used in this part of tho country lo rim the water off without underneath drains, it la still the cheapest to p.iMthe wattr across the road top, and 1 suffeu that oti make theso breik about llftoeu tj eighteen ft long, so that jourwsgou need not be thrown Tlclently against tbe oipotltebanlc In tome case It Is lst to pass Iho water under tho road, mid tho cheapest wy to do this Is by boards, suppose jott Lave your gutter twouty two feet wide, made of Cinch jlanki at CJ cents a foot, it villi cost you porhnpi fivo dolbtrs s piece for each ot theao gutters. Ibey can M intde. however, out of the rough stone at n Uttlo more expense. The trouble about underneath gut ten lj that they till up, miles tou make them wide cnonh for soutebody to co in aud cltnn tbriit cut Tcrsons who bull 1 roads ought ttot to pay more than twenty fivo cents per j rch to break stonet one man with n rtn,r hammer, tin Hug his own himmcr, which cost3 hint seventy flro cents ior h-nw, can break from four to eix pertb.es u ilny and thu tnke his dolhr or more, according to his industry, Thty ought to break the atone silting down, they ran do It much taster in that way thin by standing up over It To break rock on tho road Into lare atom- a tou ound i lodge Is tlR enougu.-UathluCiu.lu Lall IZnquirtr. |