Public works . en and a half miles of eighteen to twenty-foot road laid in a desert country in fifty-four days. Road district improvement No. 12, miles longfrom Lokern to ilcKittrick, Kern county, Califor-nia, was paved last fall by Rogers Bros. Co. of LosAngeles, for a contract price of $348,700, the workbeing completed in 54 calendar days, commencingSeptember 1st and finishing the concreting Novem-ber 24th, after which the shoulders were finishedand the work accepted December 12th. The pavement was 7 inches thick and varied inwidth from IS feet to 20 feet, increased, sometimeson curves t
Public works . en and a half miles of eighteen to twenty-foot road laid in a desert country in fifty-four days. Road district improvement No. 12, miles longfrom Lokern to ilcKittrick, Kern county, Califor-nia, was paved last fall by Rogers Bros. Co. of LosAngeles, for a contract price of $348,700, the workbeing completed in 54 calendar days, commencingSeptember 1st and finishing the concreting Novem-ber 24th, after which the shoulders were finishedand the work accepted December 12th. The pavement was 7 inches thick and varied inwidth from IS feet to 20 feet, increased, sometimeson curves to 24 feet. The location was in a dry, sandy, hilly, desertcountry with grades from 2 to 6 per cent and curvesup to 6 degrees. The 1:2:4 concrete was reinforcedover fills. The grading was done with Fresno scrap-ers. The aggregate was delivered by rail, and un-loaded by clam shell buckets at two storage yards atthe opposite ends of the route, from which the aver-age haul was 2% miles for one paver and 2 miles for.
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