The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-21
COST OF UNDERGROUND ROAD
CHAIRMAN DALE ESTIMATES ITS
IMPROVEMENTS AT $4,000.

The Surveys Finished and Grading
to Begin at Once-COnvicts EN-
pIOyed at Tybee on Drainage VIII
Build the New ROad-COmmissiOne
Dale Explains Why the Work Has
Been Undertaken-The COunty's
Road Building Policy.
Active work on the paving or hardening
Of the battle-ground road from the city
limits to Dttmersville will be-
gin within day or two.
The preliminary survey has been
made, and everything is in shape for the
grading to begin at once. The force to-
be employed on the road is the same
gang which attended to the drainage at
Tybee, and which, on its return to the
city, was put at work on a ditch out on
Dale avenue. This force consists of about
| thirty-hve men.
The Improvement of the road within the
limits stated, it being a continuation of
Montgomery street to the south of the
city, is no new thing, Chairman j. ]. Dale
of the County Commissioners say.
I'VE practically decided to make that
ly two years ago. The paving of the road
Is badly needed, especially for that
stretch, which is, perhaps, something less
than mile, since it is a bad, sandy bog,
and for heavy hauling it can hardly be
used at all. We are not fighting the
White Fluff shell road that subject never
entered INTO the discussion with regard
10 the matter The people living out in
! that section have asked me time and again
about the Improvement, and it win I'M
doubtedly benefit a considera bic portion
of the county's population"
The road, as has been stated, will be
paved with Augusta gravel. II is said it
viii require somewhere in the neighbour
hood Of l01 cars to do the work, and the
cost Of its construction will be about s., 000
according 10 the estima te which the com
missiOners have made. None of the gravel
has been ordered yet as the grading is the
first thing to be attended to, though that
will probably be finished in short order.
The new road viii be eighteen feet in
width.
Chairman Dae's idea has been to harden
the roads Of. the county in al the sandy
places as rapidly as possible, and next
year to cut down the appropriation for
| roads and bridges, and retain 5000 for
paying off county bonds. That is a mat
Ter. however, which viii be taken into con-
sidcraton al that time
The building of this portion of the Mid
dlcgrCund road is a small piece Of work
which the comm .SsiOueTs have taken up
in the interim, and which win be completed
during the sumner months. The next
work so be taken up VIII be the hardening
of the Augusta road from the four-mile
post practically up TO Monteith, a distance
of about six miles. Cherokee
Hill, on this road, is consider
ed one of the worst places in the
county, and the commissioners think it
should, be attended to as early as possible.
When the County Commissioners took
their budget before the grand jury they
asked for $500, it being estimated that
$lS0C0 would be required TO extend the Au-
gusta road 3 stated, $4,000 to extend the
! Louisville road to POO,er. and SO 90 to pave
the aforesaid portion of the Middle Ground
read. Ine Other $3.50 was wanted for
building and repairing bridges which need
ed attention. The grand jury, as VIII be
remembered, cut the budget down on this
item to $1,000, practically leaving out the
paving of the road 10 Pooler until next
year.
The county now pays $1.15 per cubic yard
for the Augusta gravel Ted, which is 5
ceEts less than heretofore. This is due 10
the fact that, the transfer charges made
by the railroad has been taken off. The
gravel to be used on the Middle Ground
Road viii be carted from the cars on a
side track, and no railroad viii have to be
put down in this case.
1t was thought when the project for the
Improvement of the Middle Ground road
vas first contemplated that the city would
extend the pavement of jefferson street
/ out 70 Twelfth street, and pave Twelfth
street across to Montgomery. This would
have made the necessary connecting link
for coming in and going out Of the city
in that direction. 1t is said now that the
ciiy's street pavemenl budget has been ex-
hausted, and sthat this work cannot be
| considered this year.