Show cost of macadam roads ogden is now agitated over the paving question and the two following items will certainly prove of interest the cost of building macadam roads in montclair N J during the past 3 sear ear averaged 92 02 centa cents per lineal too foo or per mile the work was done by contract at 27 cents per cubic yard for excavation and 80 cents and 83 cents per lineal foot fur for the macadam in place these roads bad had an eight inch depth of macadam the experience being that roads biz air inches deep of which some have been built in the town require enough repairs to effect their smaller first cost coat chicago III with a total of a little over 2000 ades miles of streets laid down uses the following paving material wooden blocks miles macadam m aca a m miles stone aton 21 2334 3 4 milea mile 9 ol 01 block 0 ei as asphalt phat miles sheet t asp asphalt nal t m miles lea brick rick pavement mile mil e and burn burned c clay 0 23 mile the total of paved streets claimed by the authorities is miles exclusive of 2 39 miles ol 01 wood pavements on viaducts and a approaches P pro aches c has the city has lies 22 2240 10 miles of wooden sidewalk out of 2872 miles the wo wood od is being slowly replaced with stone and concrete |