English: Placing Stone in Binbrook Township. The Earth Roadway is First Crowned, then the Top is Turned Back With the Grader to Form a Channel in which the Road Metal [asphalt] is Placed. The Planks are Used to Gauge the Depth of Stone and keep it in Alignment. They Are Moved Forward as the Stone is Put in Place.

Identifier: n07on tariosession38ontauoft (find matches)
Title: Ontario Sessional Papers, 1906, No.26-31
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: ONTARIO. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
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Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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e ultimate cost after aterm of years when the outlay for maintenance and repairs has been in-cluded. The main difference between broken stone and gravel is: first, the crushedstone is angular, the gravel rounded and waterworn, so that the former con-solidates more firmly, with a mechanical clasp, while clean gravel shifts andruts more readily under wheels; and second, broken stone is free from earthymatter, while gravel contains more or less sand, clay, or loam, that packsreadily in summer, yet softens in wet weather and ruts under traffic. BROKEN STONE. Broken stone is now much more used than formerly, for roadmaking inOntario. Gravel when it can be readily obtained is undoubtedly a cheapand good road material, but all districts are not favoi^ed with this naturalsupply of broken stone. Municipalities which are compelled to use crushedstone, are compensated by the fact that crushed stone is much more durablethan gravel, and may, in a terra of years, be the cheaper of the two, although
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Placing Stone in Binbrook Township.—The Earth Roadway is First Crowned, then theTop is Turned Back With the Grader to Form a Channel in avhich the RoadMetal is Placed. The Planks are Used to Gauge the Depth of Stone and keep it inAlignment. They Are Moved Forward as the Stone is Put in Place. greater in first cost. Owing to this greater cost, it is as yet used principallyby towns, villages and cities. Among the townships using crushed stone are Derby, Drummond,Hawkesbury East, Hawkesbury West, Cumberland,^ Bertie, Brighton Cam-den, Cornwall, Montague, Pickering, Richmond, Smith, Saltfteet, St. Vin- 14)05 COMiMISSK)\1:K of HUiHWAYS. 17 ceut, Wincliestor and others. The counties of Lanark and Went worth usecrusiuMJ stone very hirj^ely on their county roads, Simcoe, WcUinf^ton andHastings using it to a less extent. It is more coninionly used in EasternOntario, where gravel is not so plentiful as in the westerly counties. As ordinarily used on country roads, broken stone gives less sati

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