Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . main traveled part thereof. These monu-ments were set in the center of the road about eighteen inches below thesurface and were witnessed by proper marks to readily determine theirlocation. After the completion of this work Mr. A. S. Lyon set thegranite milestones, so now, with the exception of the first two stones,which were never furnished, a traveler going from Placerville to LakeTahoe, or returning, may know the distance he has gone. The followingtable gives the length of ro
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . main traveled part thereof. These monu-ments were set in the center of the road about eighteen inches below thesurface and were witnessed by proper marks to readily determine theirlocation. After the completion of this work Mr. A. S. Lyon set thegranite milestones, so now, with the exception of the first two stones,which were never furnished, a traveler going from Placerville to LakeTahoe, or returning, may know the distance he has gone. The followingtable gives the length of road and cost of survey: Lake Tahoe Wagon Road Survey. Distance of total survey of road miles (From Placerville Courthouse to State line, Lake Tahoe.) Distance of survey made during 1907 ... miles Distance of survey made during one day average, 1907 miles Cost of Survey, 1907. Engineer, levelman, and four helpers, with expenses $1,124 11 Concrete blocks 82 50 Total cost $1,206 61 Cost per mile of survey, complete 32 76 From an intimate knowledge of the cost of a proper maintenance of. 112 REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING. this road, I therefore recommend the appropriation of $7,500 for thespecial treatment of the first fourteen miles of the road by either water-ing or oiling, and earnestly believe such would reduce the up-keep ofthis part of the road very materially. For eight years we have struggled to get a better class of work on thestructures, and now believe the expenditure as indicated would be veryeJSective and an economical betterment. SONORA AND MONO ROAD. The 1907 session of the legislature appropriated $6,000 per annum formaintenance purposes, and this, in addition to the balance of about$12,500 in an appropriation for permanent structures on this road madein 1905, permitted the Department to accomplish many improvements. The road as originally taken by the State, in 1901, was simply arutted gully, which could be termed a road only in na
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