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Excerpt from Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Public Works of the City of Detroit, Showing the Work Done, and Receipts and Expenditures for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1898 The paving done during the fiscal year 1897-8 was nearly 21 miles, or to be exact, making the total paved mileage of the city a fraction less than 250. The paving done during the preceding year was miles. The cost of paving has been less for all kinds of material used than in 1896-97. The gross cost per square yard for cedar block on concrete was for new and for repaving, as compared with and for the preceding year. Brick on concrete is figured out at for new and for repaving, as compared with and the previous season. 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.