Public works . still remained there inreserve; which reserve, however,was used before the seasonclosed. CONCRETING The concrete pavement 20 feetwide, 6 inches thick at the edgesand 8 inches thick in the center,was made with 1:2:3 mixture,having tliree bags of cement, 600pounds of sand and 1,000 poundsof i/s to 2%-inch stone and 112pounds of reinforcement per Concreting operations were commenced with thepaver located about 8,000 feet from the Pecan sid-ing, whence it advanced about 3j4 miles to the Pearlend of the contract and then returned to the placeof beginning and worked first upgrade, and
Public works . still remained there inreserve; which reserve, however,was used before the seasonclosed. CONCRETING The concrete pavement 20 feetwide, 6 inches thick at the edgesand 8 inches thick in the center,was made with 1:2:3 mixture,having tliree bags of cement, 600pounds of sand and 1,000 poundsof i/s to 2%-inch stone and 112pounds of reinforcement per Concreting operations were commenced with thepaver located about 8,000 feet from the Pecan sid-ing, whence it advanced about 3j4 miles to the Pearlend of the contract and then returned to the placeof beginning and worked first upgrade, and contin-ued in the same direction until operations were sus-pended for the winter with the expectation of reach-ing the opposite end of the contract, at Franklin,during the present season. DISTRIBUTION OF AGGREGATE Notwithstanding that the alignment includes a 6per cent grade 7,000 feet long, another 6 per centgrade 8,400 feet long and a 9 per cent grade 9,000feet long with many curves in it, it was determined. rf:«tfc-----to.^~e linear foot. The reinforcement consisted of 56pounds National mesh fabric received in sheets52 inches wide and 17 feet 8 inches long thatwere laid transversely across the road with anoverlap of 4 inches. The position of the reinforce-ment in the body of the concrete was determined bylaying the latter in two courses, the first coursescreeded to an elevation 2 inches below that requiredfor the finished surface, after which the reinforce-ment was quickly laid and immediately covered withthe finishing course applied within a few minutesafter the bottom course so that both courses struc-turally formed a single monolithic course with thereinforcement imbedded in it in a substantiallysingle continuous operation. The culverts were all made of precast reinforcedconcrete pipe of from 14 inches to 48 inchesdiameter, made by the Musselman Company and laidwith their ends set in concrete face walls which werebuilt by the paver when it laid the concrete
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