The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-10
TO GET THE STONE AT ONCE.
READY TO PAVE THE OGEECHEE
AND AUGUSTA ROADS.

The Commissioners VIII Advertise
for Bid--Tbe Work VIII Be Done
within the Present Year-The Plan
Now BeInG Followed Considered a
Good One to Use in Paving All the
Roads-The Matter of Completing
the Meridian Road to Be Taken in
Hand.
The county commissioners will advertise
for bids at once for crushed stone to be
used in surfacing and paving the Ogee-
chez road out to the seven-mile post and
the Bay street extension and the Augusta
road out to the bridge over the Dundee
canal. which is about four miles from the
city exchange.
The money for the purchase Of this
stone is on hand, having been appropriat-
ed in the budget to meet the expenses of
the work to be done under the super
vision of the roads and bridges commit
tee. The commissioners have already de,
cided to do this work at a subsequent
meeting. it having been calculated that
these two roads for the distances named
can be paved this year with the money
on hand for such purposes.
This was the result of the experiment
with paving on the Ogeechee road from
the city limits out to the Charleston and
Savannah railroad crossing, crushed stone
being one of the materials used, and be-
ing demonstrated to the minds of the COM
missioners to be the best material for
the purpose
1t is understood that arrangements will
be made to get this stone and begin the
work as soon as possible. 1t has been in
timated. too, that the city intends to pave
the Bay street extension up to the city
limits, at which point the work of the
county will begin. If this is done, it will
give that road paving from the city ex-
change four miles out.
The idea of the commissioners is that
with the appropriation to the work of the
roads and bridges committee from year
to year of comparatively small amounts all
the roads in the county can be paved with
out increasing the taxation. The amount
thus appropriated was formerly used for
other purposes, so it may be said there
will be no increase whatever. From the
results obtained on the portion of the
Ogeechee road already paved IL has been
ascertained that the cost of putting down
the crushed stone is about 81 cents per
foot for a rOadbed twenty-one feet in
width If the commissioners pave from
six to ten miles of the county roads ev-
cry year, it will not be many years before
every road in the county can be put in
good condition.
The majority of the commissioners also
favor completing the Meridian road rs
soon as possible, and also paving the
Waters road from Wheaton street out.
This would give paved roads into many
parts of the county that are now reach
ed practically only by the toll roads, be-
sides furnishing excellent drives for the
people who seek the toll roads as such.
But the completion of the Meridian road
is considered more important from other
standpoints. especially in view of the fact
that the section of the county which it
will cover when completed is being rapid
ly settled and built up.
BY the roadwork being done in this man.
ner, the county is saved from the neces-
sity of an issue of bonds for this purpose
at least, even though at any time one
should be desirable for other purposes.
| These new roads will be of untold advan-
tage to the country producer as well as
TO every other class that finds them con-
Nenient or necessary