. Public works . s. .Ml thework under way will be finished this year if the weather isnormal. The completion of the unstarted job depends cmacadamized at a cost of $17,000 by Pete Bergman and Balm. Spaulding avenue for Zyi miles will be graiK 1and culverts put in at a cost of $5,500 by Jake Erick^UThe Nebagamon road will be graded four miies at a cii-iof $10,000 by & Johnson. All tlie work done tlll^year comes under the state-aid law wliich means that thicounty pays two-thirds and the state one-third. The statemoney is not paid in until the work is more than half com-plete. The
. Public works . s. .Ml thework under way will be finished this year if the weather isnormal. The completion of the unstarted job depends cmacadamized at a cost of $17,000 by Pete Bergman and Balm. Spaulding avenue for Zyi miles will be graiK 1and culverts put in at a cost of $5,500 by Jake Erick^UThe Nebagamon road will be graded four miies at a cii-iof $10,000 by & Johnson. All tlie work done tlll^year comes under the state-aid law wliich means that thicounty pays two-thirds and the state one-third. The statemoney is not paid in until the work is more than half com-plete. The county money is provided for at the previmisannual meeting. Tlie county will thus receive somethingover $20,000 from the Xewburgli (N. Y.) News. ST.\TE RO.\D WORK IX BE.\ At Work on State Highway Improvement. Newburgh, N. Y.—The Spuyten Duyvil has many men at work on the new state road inthe Beacon section. This is a much needed improvementand when finished will make an excellent stretch of high-way from Newburgh to Fishville. The grade will \>echanged in several places. The photograph shows themen breaking ground for the new road. Contractors Rush Maryland Road Work. Baltimore, Md.—With a continuance of the favoral)leweather for road building which has marked the first h:ilfof the year the State Roads Commission will, by January1, have finished or under contract nearly all the work thatcan be done under the loan created by the last legislatureOn January 1 there was under construction or contract ■>>miles of state road at an estimated cost of $990,000, miles of state-aided road costing $178,000. Since tin nthere have been let contracts for the con
Size: 2094px × 1193px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidpublicworks3, bookyear1896
