. Water & sewage works . reo-soted wood block paving has been lim-ited, it has nevertheless been sufficient tocause serious thought. The peoplesmoney should be expended for layingmore pavement, not for relaying old pave-ments. Any sheet surface constructionof pavement is a constant drain on thecity after it has been laid a very fewyears, and the repairs are very the creosoted wood block pavementwas as well exploited and as powerfully ments consisted of a o-j-inch block laidon a 1-inch sand cushion and a 5-inchconcrete base. Bids were received onboth oils, according to the Xew Orle
. Water & sewage works . reo-soted wood block paving has been lim-ited, it has nevertheless been sufficient tocause serious thought. The peoplesmoney should be expended for layingmore pavement, not for relaying old pave-ments. Any sheet surface constructionof pavement is a constant drain on thecity after it has been laid a very fewyears, and the repairs are very the creosoted wood block pavementwas as well exploited and as powerfully ments consisted of a o-j-inch block laidon a 1-inch sand cushion and a 5-inchconcrete base. Bids were received onboth oils, according to the Xew Orleansspecifications, IG-pound treatment. Thebids for the heavier oil being about 10per cent, less than that for the lighter,the contract was let for the heavier, aswe did not believe our present knowledgeof the comparative values of the two oilswould justify the difference in cost. Anasphaltic filler was used instead of pitchand no complaints of any kind can bemade because of bleeding. Between the street car tracks we used. CREOSOTED YELLOW pint; street, Duluth. Minn. On i:j,jJ,ij square yards laid inIfiDi to date there has been no up-keep or maintenance attached to this kind of pave-vient. promoted thruout the United States asare many inferior forms of pavementswhich disgrace many of our city streets,there would be little else but wood blockpaving laid in the United States. The first creosoted wood block pave-ment In Duluth was laid in Theform of construction was rather unfor-tunate, and has given rise to consider-able unjust criticism of the curb on one side of the street is muchlower than that on the other, which, to-gether with rather an excessive crown,gives the pavement an exceedingly steepcross grade, which results in quite a slip-pery pavement. The pavement was alsolaid with a 2-inch sand cushion beneaththe wood block; and this sand has shiftedbadly, leaving the surface uneven. Therepairs on this pavement have been prac-tically nothing, and aside from
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