FILLING AND DITCHING.
The stuff moved in bedding the sills and ties, to be placed between the latter. The ditches to be properly cleaned out after the track is laid; the filling never to rise higher than the top of the cross tie. Any surplus stuff to be moved out of the cuts, or if on embankment, to be thrown over the bank, leaving the track and road-bed in a neat and workmanlike shape.
DELIVERY OF MATERIALS.
The ties and sills to be delivered at some point on the road as near as possible to the places where they are to be used, in no case requiring more than one thousand feet of haul; to be so piled as easily to be counted and inspected. The bids for ties will be by the piece; the proposal stating the number and conditions; the sills to be bid for by the thousand, board measure. All material furnished in connection with track laying to be delivered in such manner and time as to comply in good season with the contract for laying the rails.
MEASUREMENT OF TRACK.
The measurement of track laid shall include the turnouts, measuring from heel to heel of switch. No extra allowance being made for putting in frogs or switch machinery.
85. Specification for Fencing.
Bids for fencing will be by the running foot, or mile, including both sides of the road. Where required, it will consist of posts placed eight feet apart from centre to centre, set three feet into the ground, either by digging or boring, and not by mauling. The posts shall be of oak, elm, chestnut, or other durable wood, not less than eight inches in diameter at the bottom, barked and charred where put into the ground. The boards to be 6 × 1 inches, and to square sixteen feet long, to be placed six inches apart vertically, and fastened to the posts with tenpenny nails at each bearing, and breaking joint with each other. There will be five bars in depth, the top of the uppermost being five feet from the ground. In side hill and in ground liable to slide, particular care shall be taken to place the posts firmly in the ground. At cattle guards, the fence will be turned in to the proper distance, and such arrangement made as to prevent the passage of animals.