Paving the Business Section of Tama, Iowa With Vitrified Brick

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Excerpt from Paving the Business Section of Tama, Iowa With Vitrified Brick: A Thesis Presented by Charles W. Collins to the President and Faculty of Armour Institute of Technology for the Degree of Civil Engineer When contemplating a new improvement, such as a prater supply, sewer, or street paving system, the majority of small towns, not having sufficient work to retain an Engineer the entire year, will call on a Consulting Engineer to draw up plans, specifications, and estimate of cost for the proposed improvement, and to supervise the construction of the same. The writer has endeavored to trace the various steps involved in street paving in such a typical town, emphasizing particularly the duties and problems encountered by the Engineer. It has been his intention to bring forth many seemingly small details, which, nevertheless, are very troublesome and annoying at the time. As the writer was brought in personal contact with the work at Tama, he has taken it as an example of paving any town in Iowa, small differences naturally arising from local problems and conditions. Although the engineering problems would be almost the same in any other State, the legal steps would be quite different. Tama, a town of about three thousand(3, 000) inhabitants, is located in the central part of Iowa, about two hundred and eighty(280) miles west of Chicago, on the Lincoln Highway and the Chicago-Omaha divisions of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway and the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. The Tama and Toledo Railway Company, a subsidiary of the Iowa Railway and Light Company, operates an electric line between Tama and Toledo, the county seat, which is about two and one-half (2-1/2) miles north of Tama. That part of its right-of-way in Tama, between the two aforesaid railroads and within the paving district, was paved. The construction work, itself, comes as a climax to a succession of steps made necessary by law. The survey, the preparation of plans, specifications, and estimate, the resolution of neoes3ity, the public hearing, the receiving of bids, and the drawing up of contract, constitute a few of the most important of these steps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.