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Identifier: outing51newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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to a city. The rule in the city ofNew York after it had grown away fromthe Dutch village at the Battery, is thattwenty blocks constitute a mile, whichroughly speaking provides that streetsshall cross each other at right angles every264 feet. In the cities, the concentrationof values is so great that few people areable to own more than one lot, with afrontage of from twenty to fifty feet to thelot. They are responsible for the care andmaintenance of the paving and repaying infront of their particular property. Thispermits a city to pave and charge up to theproperty owners immensely expensivepavements of stone, wood or asphalt, orother suitable material, which, accordingto the width of the street costs from$20,000 to $50,000 a mile, and this with-out being particularly burdensome to thelot owner, because it is apportioned uponso many pieces of property and also madepayable over a term of years. These con-ditions do not exist in the country, becausein many places, a man owns from a quar-
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A decent bit of road for the man in the lead. An application of crude oil would lay the dust. 224 The Outing Magazine ter to a mile of property fronting on oneor both sides of the road, and in many in-stances it is miles of highway that pass infront of one mans property. PROFITABLE LENGTH OF HAUL OF FARMPRODUCTS Railroad officials state that in a fairlylevel country such as Indiana or Ohio, asteam railroad will have sufficient freightto haul to make it a safe financial invest-ment if it receives the freight produced from macadam and establishing proper grades,each wagon, in place of carrying one ton,will be enabled to carry with the same teamthree or four tons in less time than the oneton was formerly carried the ten miles tomarket, and that, too, for the same priceof $2.50 for the haul, thus reducing thecost to six cents or eight cents per ton permile. The following table shows the costof hauling product five miles, which givesreadily to the eye the reason why a longerhaul than five

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