 If there be substance enough already in the road, and which, indeed, should always be carefully kept up, it will never be right to put on more than a stone's thickness at a time. A cubic yard nicely prepared and broken, as before described, to a rod superficial,...  A Practical Treatise on Roads, Streets, and Pavements - Page 125by Quincy Adams Gillmore - 1876 - 258 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1832 - 440 pages
...road-making that can be committed, to lay on thick coats of materials, and when understood will be no longer resorted to. If there be substance enough already...time. Each stone becomes fixed directly, and keeps it place, thereby escaping the wear and fretting which occur in the other case. Supposing it necessary... | |
 | Daniel Pereira Gardner - 1846 - 898 pages
...cubic yard, nicely prepared and broken, to a rod superficial, will be quite enough for a coat, and will be found to last as long as double the quantity...thick layers. There is no grinding to pieces when thus applied ; the angles are preserved, and the materials are out of sight and incorporated in a very... | |
 | Henry Law - 1850 - 166 pages
...thickness at a time. A cubic yard, niceh prepared and broken, as before described, to a rod superficia will be quite enough for a coat, and, if accurately...material is out of sight and incorporated in a very litth time. Each stone becomes fixed directly, and keeps its place thereby escaping the wear and fretting... | |
 | Daniel Pereira Gardner - 1854 - 890 pages
...a rod superficial, will be quite enough for a coat, and will be found to last as long as double ihe quantity put on unprepared and in thick layers. There is no grinding to pieces when thus applied ; ihe angles are preserved, and the materials are out of sight | and incorporated in a... | |
 | Henry Law - 1855 - 180 pages
...roadmaking that can be committed, to lay on thick coats of materials, and when understood, will be no longer resorted to. If there be substance enough already...layers. There is no grinding to pieces when so applied 5 the angles are preserved, and the material is out of sight and incorporated in a very little time.... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1867 - 736 pages
...and, when understood, will no longer be resorted to. If there be already substance enough in the road, which, indeed, should always be carefully kept up,...the quantity put on unprepared and in thick layers. Suppose it necessary to increase the substance of the road, and it is intended to apply materials for... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1867 - 752 pages
...time ; a cubic yard, nicely prepared and broken as before described, to a rod superficial, will bo quite enough for a coat, and if accurately noticed,...the quantity put on unprepared and in thick layers. Suppose it neeessary to increase the substance of the road, and it is intended to apply materials for... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1867 - 770 pages
...a time; a cubic yard, nicely prepared and broken as before described, to a rod superficial, will bo quite enough for a coat, and if accurately noticed,...the quantity put on unprepared and in thick layers,. Suppose it necessary to increase the substance of the гиаЛ. and it is intended to apply materials... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1870 - 736 pages
...that can be committed, to lay on thick coats of materials, and, when understood, will be no longer resorted to. If there be substance enough already...applied ; the angles are preserved, and the material is oat of sight and incorporated in a very little time. Each stone becomes fixed directly, and keeps its... | |
 | Quincy Adams Gillmore - 1876 - 292 pages
...square yards, should not be undertaken at one time, and where there are several depressions in close proximity to each other, the worst should be patched...grinding to pieces when so applied ; the angles are proserved, and the material is out of sight and incorporated in a very little time. Each stone becomes... | |
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