. The railroad and engineering journal . hlabor and in bridging, excavating, grading, and tunnel-ing ; Bandang and Garoet, for instance, lying at an altitude ofover 3,000 ft. above the sea. A branch line from Batavia toBekassi has lately been completed, and a short road 10 Tanger-ang is proposed, while a railway from Tagal to Margosari isalso open beyond Banjaran. The cost of construction hastherefore been, on an average, about 99,452 florins per kilo-meter, or !{;64,32o per mile. Since 1875 the average annual expenditure on Governmentrailroads and the new harbor works at Tandjong Pri
. The railroad and engineering journal . hlabor and in bridging, excavating, grading, and tunnel-ing ; Bandang and Garoet, for instance, lying at an altitude ofover 3,000 ft. above the sea. A branch line from Batavia toBekassi has lately been completed, and a short road 10 Tanger-ang is proposed, while a railway from Tagal to Margosari isalso open beyond Banjaran. The cost of construction hastherefore been, on an average, about 99,452 florins per kilo-meter, or !{;64,32o per mile. Since 1875 the average annual expenditure on Governmentrailroads and the new harbor works at Tandjong Priok hasbeen between .!;2, and $3,200,000, not less than $32,000,-000 having been paid during the decade following for this objectalone. As regards the returns to the Government from theseroads, it may l)e said that, until 1S77, the only lines open fortraffic were the private railroads between Batavia and Buitenzorg,of 30 miles, and the Samarang, Djokjokarta, and Cembarawalines, of 126 miles. The company contracted to return to the. The contract speed was 17 knots an hour, but on the trial tripa speed of 18. i knots was reached, the builders securing by thisa premium of over the contract price. In service shemakes a run of 13^ miles in 38 to 40 minutes ; being at the rateof to niilcs per hour. The steamboat is employed on the line from Ardrossan acrossthe Firth of Clyde to Brodick on the Island of .\rran, runningin connection with the trains of the Caledonian Railway. Thisservice is very similar to that on Long Island Sound, near NewYork, and it is interesting to note the difference in type andgeneral appearance between this boat and those used for liketraffic in this country. A Novel Pavement.—At a recent meeting of the InventorsInstitute, in Loudon, a paper was read on road making bv NicoU. He proposed the use of blocks of granite 5 in. by3 in., wrapped, except on the upper surface, with waste fiberand an elastic bituminous compound, and the wh
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