. Annual report of the Massachusetts Highway Commission . ineyard, where the travel is as light asit is in the towns previously mentioned, the people appreciate thebenefits of good roads, and take the trouble to divert their horsesfrom a single track, with the result that the travel is spread all overthe surface. On the section of road in West Tisbury, where thewidth of the broken stone is but ten feet, the travel has spread overthe surface so that no horsepath has developed. It seems that awidth not exceeding twelve feet would be ample for the needs of thetravel on this road, and probably on
. Annual report of the Massachusetts Highway Commission . ineyard, where the travel is as light asit is in the towns previously mentioned, the people appreciate thebenefits of good roads, and take the trouble to divert their horsesfrom a single track, with the result that the travel is spread all overthe surface. On the section of road in West Tisbury, where thewidth of the broken stone is but ten feet, the travel has spread overthe surface so that no horsepath has developed. It seems that awidth not exceeding twelve feet would be ample for the needs of thetravel on this road, and probably on many others. In the roads first built by the commission, the broken stone, withone or two exceptions, has been spread on the road in three courses : liil>l«- Mliowiiii:- I lio liig-UvFays cionstructetl or contiooted. for Toy tlie the sevetnl Jnii. 1. I — I — Ih1»I< ^^^ liiiT ili«^ constructed or contracted rpi- by the conimiissioii, and tlie nature of tl»e several Jan. 1, 189S —Contiiiiiotl. --1 ■ Kiar- RS5!i,. Tiil»I* i-iliowiiiii- t»« IiigHway^ oonstructed or contracted for by the commission, and 1:lie nature of tlie several constructions, to Jan. 1, 1808 — Oonclnded. (HrltJililuidliliwt,. ™«*S ■ IK-^ tel??!!:; No. 54.] APPENDIX A. 35 one and one-quarter to two and one-half inches in thickness for thebottom course, one-half inch to one and one-quarter inches for thesecond course, and screenings for the top course. The followingyear, and during part of the year 1896, some of the roads showedsigns of wearing, and horse tracks had developed. On a number ofthe roads the stone was put on in two layers, the size of the stonevarying from half an inch to two and one-half inches. Where thestone was uniform in quality good results were obtained from thispractice ; but with the ordinary field stone, varying in hardness, itwas found that the softer stone and the smaller bits wore out rapidly,leaving the harder stone projecting above t
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