Kaighn's Avenue, 1.67 Miles Long.

This road begins at Haddon avenue and runs in an easterly direction to the Browning road, all in the city of Camden. The construction was fourteen feet wide and ten inches thick. The material was Bergen Hill trap. It gives a large area of country lying to the east a direct and shorter connection with Kaighn's avenue ferry. The maximum grade is 2.70 feet per hundred feet.

The cost per square yard was 68 cents.
The cost of the road was $10,789.65.

ESSEX COUNTY.

Grove Street, Montclair, 2.58 Miles Long.

This road begins at Chestnut street, in the township of Montclair, and extends in a northerly direction to the Passaic county line. It is built of telford, sixteen feet wide and eight inches thick.

This road extends through an improved section of Montclair, fine houses being erected on each side. It passes over a stiff clay till, glacier drift, composed of gravel and red clay, on account of which the excavation was difficult. Boulders were used in the bottom of the road to form a telford foundation, on the top of which were placed three inches of macadam.

The maximum grade is 3.1 feet in 100.
The cost per square yard was 43 cents.

The total cost of the road was $14,501.57.

Franklin Avenue, Bloomfield, 528 Feet Long.

This road begins at the Morris canal bridge, in the township of Bloomfield, and extends in an easterly direction to Jeroloman street. It is built of telford, sixteen feet wide and eight inches thick.

It runs through a clay soil, not many boulders. It is a continuation of one of the improved streets of Bloomfield.

The maximum grade is 5.2 feet in 100.

The cost per square yard was 49 cents.

The total cost of the road was $663.75.

South Orange Avenue, 3.41 Miles Long.

This road is fourteen feet wide and eight inches deep. It commences at the foot of the Second Orange mountain, and runs west, over said mountain, through a rough country covered with timber and boulders. Trap boulders form the bottom course to the depth of five inches; the surface is formed of crushed trap, three inches deep. It was an expensive road to grade, on account of the deep cuts required to overcome the steep ascent. There are a few dairy farms along its line, but its principal service will be in furnishing a short route for the farmers of Passaic valley to the markets of Orange and Newark.

This road has been widened to seventy-five feet to accommodate a contemplated trolley line without interfering with the macadam bed. The city of Newark has located one of its most picturesque parks in one of the wildest sections along this line. This route is the most direct from the Oranges to Morristown, and was once used as a stage road between the two places. On account of the heavy grading the contractor has been two years in completing same.

The maximum grade is 7.83 feet per 100.
The total cost of the road was $19,210.80.

Grove Avenue, Verona, 1.85 Miles Long.

This road begins at Bloomfield avenue, in the township of Verona, and extends in a northerly direction to the Pompton turnpike. It is built of telford, sixteen feet wide and eight inches thick.

It runs through a sand, gravel, clay and boulder formation, resulting from the deposits of the glacier drift that covers the most of this region.

The maximum grade is 3.37 feet in 100.

The cost per square yard was 34 cents.

The cost of the road was $9,875.52.

Walnut Street, Livingston, 1.25 Miles Long.

This road begins at Mount Pleasant avenue, in the township of Livingston, and extends in a southerly direction to Northfield road, connecting the improved roads of this section. It is built of telford, fourteen feet wide and eight inches thick.

It runs through grazing and agricultural lands, composed of clay, sand and gravel.

Western Essex is receiving a large amount of road improvement through the State Aid, which is bringing in close communion with the outside world a very picturesque farming country.

The maximum grade is 2.87 feet in 100.
The cost per square yard was 42 cents.
The cost of the road was $6,141.12.

GLOUCESTER COUNTY.

Asbury Road, 7.50 Miles Long.

This road extends from Paulsboro in a southwesterly direction to Swedesboro. It is built of macadam, sixteen feet wide in the village of Paulsboro, ten feet wide in the open country and eight inches thick.

The land over which it passes is an alluvial, sandy and sandy-loam country, interspersed with several tidal meadows. The roadbed was, at most seasons of the year, almost impassable to loaded teams, on account of the depth of sand. A large amount of produce is raised along this road, which needed a harder line of travel in order that it might be cheaply conveyed to the city markets.

At Swedesboro it connects with a macadam road built three years ago through the town of Swedesboro. At Paulsboro it connects with a macadam road leading from Paulsboro to Westville, which there connects with another macadam road leading to the Gloucester ferries. This road and others that have been built in Gloucester county are giving an easy outlet to the immense amount of produce that is now passing over them to the Gloucester ferries. From one to two thousand teams are daily carried over these ferries, heavily loaded with all the varied productions of this fertile region.

The maximum grade of this road is 3 per cent.
The cost per square yard for macadam was 64 cents.
The total cost was $31,390.56.

MERCER COUNTY.

White Horse Road, 293/352 Miles Long.

This road extends from Liberty street, in the city of Trenton, to White Horse tavern. This avenue is one hundred feet wide. The largest portion of the way the car tracks are located in the center of