Excerpt from Engineering and Contracting, Vol. 48: Devoted to the Economics of Civil Engineering Design and to Methods and Costs of Construction; July December, 1917
Summary Showing Detail Cost of Bituminous Surface Treatment Work In 1916, by the Bureau of Streets of Philadelphia.
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