Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Twelfth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Highway Commission: January, 1905
The law of 1900 requires a payment to the Commonwealth by each municipality in which State roads are built of the cost of maintenance of such roads, but not exceeding $50 for each mile of State road in the respective municipalities. The total cost of repairs was in 1904; there will be paid back into the State treasury the sum of or about per cent. Of the total cost.
In certain parts of the State the maintenance of State roads is more economically and better done by contract than by day work. This is because of a local demand for labor which makes it practically impossible to get men or horses to work on the road during parts of the year when repairs are most needed.
The method of continuous repairs has been pursued during the present year, the intention of the commission being to have all parts of State roads in good condition at all times.
Nine contracts for maintenance are now in operation, cover ing miles of road.
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