Public works . s, each drawn by a pair of mules, with a snatch teamfor loading. The remainder of the fill is being hauledsome three miles by motor truck. Loading is done bya steam shovel and the round trip of three miles, dump-ing, return and loading, is made regularly in one the other trucks, these are White and Packard andare hired under the same conditions as the others. Threeyards is considered a load. ^ Materials such as broken stone, sand and cement, arebeing furnished from the supply base. Omitting the costof these materials from consideration, the of the pav
Public works . s, each drawn by a pair of mules, with a snatch teamfor loading. The remainder of the fill is being hauledsome three miles by motor truck. Loading is done bya steam shovel and the round trip of three miles, dump-ing, return and loading, is made regularly in one the other trucks, these are White and Packard andare hired under the same conditions as the others. Threeyards is considered a load. ^ Materials such as broken stone, sand and cement, arebeing furnished from the supply base. Omitting the costof these materials from consideration, the of the pavement has been in the neighborhood of$30,000 per miles of completed road. Per square yardthe price has run from about $ down to the presentmark of $ and there is a likelihood of a still furtherreduction before the work is completed. The work wasstarted last fall, but was suspended before much progresshad been made. Started again this spring under thepresent management, progress has been much more satis-. TRACTORS DRAWING SWEEPING MACHINES IN ALBANY. N. Y. MUNICIPAL JOURNAL AND PUBLIC WORKS Vol. XLVII, Xo. 1 factory. Labor has been hard to get owing to the greatdemand for it at nearby camps and on neighboring con-struction. The rate paid is 46 cents an hour. About 175men are now at work on this particular job. Throughout, the work shows careful planning andgood management. Operating under the conditions un-der which this road is being built, there are numberlesschances for costs to rise. Succeeding to a plant notconstructed according to their own ideas and, in somedetails, not wholly fitted for the work, the men in chargehave handled the job admirably and the steadily decreas-ing costs under their management may be an augurythat this method of constructiton may become, if not astandard, at least more popular than it is now. MOTORIZATION OF SWEEPING MACHINES. By WILLIAM J. COFFIN. The Street Department of Albany, N. Y., is now usingtractors for hauling the sweeping machin
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