Some haulers reported they were being paid just $6 a cubic yard.

Estimated treatment costs, which include transportation, spreading, amendments, and monitoring, are about $45 per cubic yard.

From inception prisoners main task was the breaking of one cubic yard of rock per day.

The boatmen were paid 7d. (3 pence) per cubic yard, for digging it out of the ground, boating it and landing it.

Miners were paid by the cubic yard, by the mine car, or by the ton, and (in the driving of entries) by the lineal yard.