Macadam, stone free at quarry, 8 inches depth, 40 to 50 cents per square yard; including cost of stone, 8 inches depth, 60 to 90 cents per square yard; 12 inches depth, 90 cents to $1.30 per square yard.
Stone blocks on broken stone base, $1.50 to $2.00 per square yard.
Stone blocks on concrete base, $2.00 to $3.50 per square yard.
Wooden blocks-4-inch creosoted yellow pine blocks on 1 inch of sand over 6 inches of na tural cement concrete, $2.25 to $2.35 per square yard. Cost of 4-inch creosoted yellow pine blocks, f. o. b. cars, about $1.70 per square yard.
The following analyses of the cost of brick and stone block paving are taken from "En gineering News," July 24, 1902: "The following is a summary of the cost of paving with brick laid on edge, wages being 25 cents per hour for pavers and 15 cents for la borers: Cost of street paving in 30 cities in Wisconsin per square yard (see "Municipal Journal and Engineer," Nov., 1905)—asphalt, $1.80 to $2.19; bricks, $1.00 to $2.19; macadam, 25 cents to $1.30; wood block, 60 cents to $1.97.
All-concrete roadway paving has been found in several cities to cost 14 to 18 cents per square foot. At Jackson, Mich., some street paving having 3 inches of gravel, 6 inches of 1:8 cement and gravel, 4 inches of 1:3 cement and crushed granite, mixed quite wet, cost 18 cents per squqare foot (see "Concrete Engineering," Dec., 1907, p. 205).
Piles—Driven and cut, ordinary lengths and sizes, spruce, 20 to 40 cents per foot; long, driven and cut, $6.00 to $10.00 each. Shorter piles for trestle bents, $3.00 to $5.00 in place.
Piling—(Nov., 1907). Spruce, ordinary car goes, 6 to 7 cents per foot. Oak, 14-inch butt, 40 to 50-foot, 19 cents per foot; 50 to 55-foot, 22 cents per foot; 55 to 60-foot, 23 cents per foot; 60 foot and up, 25 cents per foot.
Pine, 60 to 65-foot, $8.50 each; 70 to 75-foot, $10.50 each; 80-foot and up, $16.00 each.
Concrete piles in place, about $1.00 per linear foot.
Railing—Gaspipe, 2-rail, 50 to 75 cents per foot; 3-rail, 75 cents to $1.25 per foot.
A substantial bridge railing costs about $1.50 to $2.50 per linear foot. Cast-iron newel posts, about $10.00 each.
Roofing—Four layers of felt paper covered with pitch and gravel, or pitch and slag, 4 to 6 cents per square foot.
Slate, 7 to 13 cents per square foot. Slag, 4 cents. Tin, 8 to 10 cents. Shingles, 7 to 10 cents per square foot.
Tile, Spanish, $9.00 to $12.00 per square of 100 square feet.
Cost of pipe per linear foot, 5-inch, 5 to 7 cents; 10-inch, 15 to 20 cents; 15-inch, 25 to 40 cents; 21-inch, 50 to 75 cents; 30-inch, $1.00 to $1.70; 48-inch, $2.00 to $3.00.
Steel—Structural, material only, to cents per pound. Erected and painted, 3 to 5 cents per pound.
Castings, in place, 5 to 10 cents per pound. Rails, new, $28.00 per ton, f. o. b. cars; old, short pieces, $14.00 to $14.50.
Scrap, structural, $14.00 per long ton.
Stone—Wholesale rates, delivered at New York, price per cubic foot: Nova Scotia, in rough, 90 cents; Ohio free stone, in rough, 85 to 90 cents; Minnesota free stone, in rough, 90 cents; Longmeadow free stone, 85 cents; Brownstone, Portland, 60 cents; Brownstone, Belleville, N. J., 75 cents to $1.00; Scotch redstone, $1.05; Lake Superior redstone, $1.10; Granite, rough, 40 to 50 cents; limestone, buff and blue, 80 cents; portage, $1.00; Caen, $1.25 to $1.75; white building marble, $1.25 to $1.75; Wyoming bluestone, 90 cents; Euclid bluestone, 90 cents; crushed stone, $1.40 per net ton, f. o. b. cars New York City. (May, 1904).