. The Street railway journal . cate,which has invested over $1,000,000 in thecity and suburbs. Mr. Dyer has resided in Augusta forabout four years, and has become promi-nently identified with a number of thecitys industries, and is regarded as oneof her most enterprising citizens. He isalso president of the Port Royal & West-ern Carolina Railway, and is interested inthe development of Port Royal as an ex-port city, which is claimed to have one ofthe finest harbors on the Atlantic coast,the channel being sufficiently deep to ad-mit of the largest sea-going vessels. Thestreet railway system embr
. The Street railway journal . cate,which has invested over $1,000,000 in thecity and suburbs. Mr. Dyer has resided in Augusta forabout four years, and has become promi-nently identified with a number of thecitys industries, and is regarded as oneof her most enterprising citizens. He isalso president of the Port Royal & West-ern Carolina Railway, and is interested inthe development of Port Royal as an ex-port city, which is claimed to have one ofthe finest harbors on the Atlantic coast,the channel being sufficiently deep to ad-mit of the largest sea-going vessels. Thestreet railway system embraces twenty-five miles of track, and the cars are operat-ed with water power. Associated with Mr. Dyer in theoperating of the street railway system are the followingpersons, who, with a number of the employes, are fromKansas City: C. B. Reavis, secretary; T. A. Roberts,superintendent, and W. E. Moore, electrician. The track construction is very substantial, and con-sists mostly of T rail spiked to the ties. The streets are. FIG. 4.—CONFEDERATE MONUMENT, CORNER BROAD ANDJACKSON STREETS, SHOWING BRICK PAVEMENTBETWEEN TRACKS—AUGUSTA, GA. generally paved, asphalt being principally used. Thereis also considerable Belgian block paving and macadam,and also a cement rock called chert, which is laidon a foundation of broken stone, and which developscementing qualities after being exposed to traffic. BroadStreet is paved with asphalt, but between the tracks andrails and three feet outside, a brick paving is construction facilitates track repairs, for bricks can readily be removed and replaced. Above the ties there isbut one tier of bricks, which is set edgeways on a thinlayer of sand, the sand foundation being thoroughlytamped. At the street crossings the rails are placed onchairs, and here two tiers of bricks are employed. At one 1 crossing, however, there is a concrete foundation with onetier of brick only, set edgeways. The brick paving isgiving excellent satisfactio
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