Four-inch Macadam, carries a heavy brick and ice traffic-150 loads per day of 3 to 5 tons on narrow tires. W. C. Foster, Engineer.

DESCRIPTION OF ROADS IMPROVED IN 1898.

ATLANTIC COUNTY.

Egg Harbor City and Mays Landing Road, 6.75 Miles Long.

This road extends from the German city of Egg Harbor to Mays Landing, the county seat of Atlantic county. It is constructed of gravel, fourteen feet wide and eight inches thick. The gravel was mostly obtained along the line of the road.

This road passes over a sandy region, principally covered with pines and scrub-oaks, along which there are a number of clearings and settlements made by Congressman Gardner and Italians.

Upon these clearings there are being planted strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and various kinds of vegetables and fruits.

Over what was once an extremely sandy road there is now a superb highway, giving the inhabitants of Hammonton, Elwood, Egg Harbor City and numerous other settlements a free and beautiful driveway to the county seat of Mays Landing.

The maximum grade is 2.10 per cent.

The cost per cubic yard for compacted gravel in road-bed was 31 cents.

The total cost of the road was $12,319.22.

BURLINGTON COUNTY.

London Bridge Road, Three-fourths of a Mile Long.

This road begins at the city line in the city of Burlington, and runs through the city in a northeasterly direction to the Camden and Amboy railroad. It is sixteen feet wide and eight inches thick, made of stone one and a quarter to one and a half inches in size, rolled in two courses.

It connects the macadam roads leading from Burlington, through Bridgeborough to Camden, making a continuous line from the rail

road on the main street of Burlington to the cities of Camden and Beverly, virtually a completion of the Bridgeborough and Burlington road.

It runs over a sandy surface, each side of it lined with truck farms and suburban homes.

The maximum grade is .009 per cent.

The cost per square yard was 57 cents.
The total cost was $4,522.98.

Brown's Mill and Lisbon Road, 23928/5280 Miles Long.

This road is a continuation of the Pemberton road, and is constructed of trap-rock ten feet wide and six inches deep. It extends partly through a farming district and partly through a pine, sandy region to the celebrated summer resort of Brown's Mills. This is a completion of an improved highway between Brown's Mills and the city of Camden; it enables loaded wagons, carriages and cyclers to travel continuously thirty miles over a hard, smooth surface to this resort. The intention is to prepare a cycling path from this point to Lakewood, the most famous winter health resort in New Jersey. The maximum grade is 3 per cent.

The cost per square yard was 54 cents.
The total cost of the road was $8,996.23.

River Road, 313/33 Miles Long.

This road is twelve feet wide and eight inches thick. It is built of Bergen Hill trap rock. It extends from Riverton to Riverside, through a thickly-settled trucking country. The land over which it passes is a sandy loam, sand predominating, and forms a much-needed connection between the improved systems of roads east and west, and makes a macadam road along the whole length of the river from Burlington city, through Burlington county to the Camden county line. As the land bordering is fast being dotted with residences, it was thought advisable to make the grade almost level, not more than 1 per cent.

The cost per square yard was 67 cents.
The cost of the road was $16,889.39.

Pemberton and New Lisbon Road, 32291/5280 Miles Long.

This road extends in a northerly direction from the Rancocas creek, in the village of Pemberton, over the main street of the village to the North Pemberton railroad depot at Budd's run. At Davis' Corner the improvement commences over Hanover street and extends over the whole length of this street in an easterly direction to the county-house farm.

It runs through the beautiful village of Pemberton, and, in conjunction with the citizens, the whole street is paved from curb to curb with a six-inch trap rock pavement. Through Hanover street the road is fourteen feet wide and six inches deep; outside of the village it is ten feet wide and six inches thick.

The road passes through a very fine agricultural district and connects the almshouse of the county with the improved system of macadam roads leading from Pemberton to Mount Holly, and thence on to the city of Philadelphia. The soil is sandy loam and black sand, noted for producing heavy crops of grass and grain. A large amount of produce passes over this road to Philadelphia and the towns and cities that line the Delaware river.

The borough of Pemberton, like most of the cities and towns through which these State road improvements have passed, adopted an ordinance to pave the balance of the street outside of the limit of the State and county aid, which action gives to Pemberton two very fine macadamized streets its whole length and width.

The maximum grade is 3 per cent.

The cost per square yard for macadam was 57 cents.
The cost of the road was $13,619.10.

Columbus and Chambers Corner Road 371/88 Miles Long.

This road extends from Columbus to the Jobstown pike, completing the chain, making a continuous improved road from Mount Holly to Columbus. It is built of macadam, ten feet wide and eight inches thick, of Lambertville Delaware river trap laid in two courses, the lower one of stone one and one-half inches in size, the upper course of one-and-one-fourth-inch size.

It passes through a fine grazing region, principally meadows, the uplands composed principally of sandy loam, covered with many productive farms. A wide area is tributary to and the road gives passage to its products to either the markets of Trenton or Philadelphia. The maximum grade is about 5 per cent.

The cost per square yard for macadam was 74 cents.
The cost of the road was $17,577.97.

CAMDEN COUNTY.

Waterford Road, 11.12 Miles Long.

This road is built of gravel, fourteen feet wide and eight inches deep in the center and six inches on the side.

It begins at the end of the stone road in Berlin and runs in a southeasterly direction through the villages of Atco, Waterford, Ancora and Elm to the Atlantic county line. It passes through a sandy and pine district, interspersed here and there with truck and berry farms, cranberry bogs and sandy pine wastes. The thriving settlements along its line are like so many oases in a desert.

Considering the shortness of the gravel-supply, an uncommonly hard, smooth road has been constructed. It was with much difficulty that the proper kind of material could be obtained; many openings and strippings were made, only to find the material worthless. Resting principally upon a light, sandy bottom, the gravel makes a very pretty road for light travel most of the months of the year. Its completion makes the last link of an improved road from Camden to Atlantic City. Bicycles can now travel, at their highest rate of speed, a distance of sixty-four miles, without any interruption to their progress. Several thousand bicycles a day sometimes pass over this route. This completed roadway promises to transform a wilderness into a paradise, where a porous soil and balmy pine air enable those seeking health to settle with impunity and have quick access either by bicycle, wagon or rail to the populous cities north and the celebrated seaside resorts south.

The maximum grade is 1.80 per hundred feet.

The cost per cubic yard for compacted gravel in the roadbed was 262 cents.

The total cost was $19,858.81.