Public works . disposal. 194 PUBLIC WORKS Vol. 52, No. 11 Garbage collection and disposal was not per-formed directly by the city until October first. Sincethat time the city has been reorganizing the methodof collection and expects to perform this by meansof Fordson tractors and trailers in the residence dis-trict and by trucks in the mercantile district. Thecity has been paying about $13,500 a year for op-erating an incinerating plant and is contemplatingclosing down the incinerator and disposing of allrefuse by burying it in waste land. Quarry and Steam Shovel Work forHighway Construction A
Public works . disposal. 194 PUBLIC WORKS Vol. 52, No. 11 Garbage collection and disposal was not per-formed directly by the city until October first. Sincethat time the city has been reorganizing the methodof collection and expects to perform this by meansof Fordson tractors and trailers in the residence dis-trict and by trucks in the mercantile district. Thecity has been paying about $13,500 a year for op-erating an incinerating plant and is contemplatingclosing down the incinerator and disposing of allrefuse by burying it in waste land. Quarry and Steam Shovel Work forHighway Construction Appliances used by Virginia contractoron nine miles of road work. The construction of 9^4 miles of a 16-foot high-way by the Pace Construction Co. of Roanoke, Va.,as contractors involved the excavation of yardsof earth and the hauling of 60,000 yards of earth amaximum distance of 1,000 feet. A cut was ex-cavated by a Bucyrus 14-B caterpillar shovel, oper-ating in shale rock and delivering from 400 to 500. DITCH DRILLING MACHINE OPERATED BYAIR FROM PORTABLE COMPRESSOR. loads per day to Western lJ/2-yard dump wagons,making an average output of 500 yards per day. The broken stone required for construction wasobtained from two quarries at convenient placesalongside the road. At quarry No. 1 a daily outputof 150 cubic yards was secured by the use of aSullivan D. rotator, making holes up to 16feet in depth. The drill was operated by air com-pressed by a Sullivan WK-31 portable gasoline com-pressor with a capacity of 150 cubic feet of air perminute. A similar compressor was used in theother quarry and to operate the steam shovel, and
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