Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-05-30


The visit Of the levy. courtmon to the
Bflver Run road, Vance's Neck. in st.
4sorges hundr5d, Friday, disclosed
S$hst the county will need to spend
Ekhousands OF dollars more to keep up
Sfhe road, or else may rs we'll abandon
X II to the tides which swenp in from the |
x delaware River In years gone by the |
'*iver bank was in fair condition and
ESilyc Run emptied into the Delaware I
NRiver through sluioH. Now, the I
Fsluice is no more. and the bank is |
practically useless for pos ,ibly three
jvurths of a mile. Through this space |
the tides from the river flow upon the
marsh and strike both sides OF tho Sill
yer Run road. This highway was con /
RBtruoted largely OF sand and sravei and |
within year or SO, cost tho county |
ffaotor. Sincs then, NJ has settled !
l&bout thres feet, and has heen embraced |
IVY high tides to it's seriors iml arment.
l hs road is about 2,2tO feet lopg. OF
8'N hich distance nearly 300 Is In q
4 n OGDEN bridge erected on piing. The !
struDture is said to show the effect OF
n being washed By tides.
t# In the view 81 some members of the
&pourt the county would have been
thousands oil dollars better of IT. years
I'LL 0, it had bought all the property
fontiguous to the road
III The county is now under the peoes-
Skity of protecting thu road or letting it
&Ep. The former may DO done by replac-
1l3pg the river bank, OF Dy siieathing the
3Ianad. but If either or both be done,
pntlnual effors may be required to
zSsheep it up.
l3 III MAYER was so much Disguised with
|H placesas when saw that road" said
" Commissioner Isaac C. Elliott Saturday
N}norning. He thought it reflected no
Nrr, dit on the Levy Court who permitted
Commissiouer Willis agreed with
E<Mr Elliott. ~
# A meeting Of the Levy Court was
jAheld Saturday, when il was expected
that the Silver Run road matter would
be considered. But after the minutes
5of Tuesday weeks meeting had been
II read adjournment was taken
HI This little table represents the cost
zfipf Silver Run road TO the taxpayers of
New Castle county within tho past year
5&pr so: H
&3 contract price, paid to Patrick
S# Fahey, contractor. ....... .$12, 600
E tras. aocoiaing to Levy Court
NJ man Chandler ............... 1854
This item represents the contract
II price for eheathing one side of the road
and refilling,> as agreed upon by the
N Levy Court last Saturday:
n Contract to Patrick Fahey. ~. Sc, 500
VI The last. given item is exclusive of
N the cost of the dirt for filling IN.
W The total of the figures given il
&}222 I, 054, ard no one, in the Levy Court
Twill pretend that that is the end OF the
expense to the county for road which
N very small proportion of persons in
NJ The county have ever seen, and which
n. comes under the care of the present
iSLesy Court as legacy from its prsde-
zuessor. '
|X The Levy Court convened about /. 30
N o. COCK Saturday afternoon with all the
M members pi esent. Mr. Willis sug-
Ykeeted that nefore the bids for the road
were considered the court decide
The question Of the ndvisability of re-
Earring the breaks in the Delaware
Ellsiver bank, rather than simply repair
Ing the road The condition of ths'road
las affected q greet deal by the tides
Z]Ifrom the river and he thought TINT it
might be cheaper in the long run to ex-
pend the money necessary to fix the
XIC4 bbub. Ilo inuuSnb huhb tut 1EptAOU u
SAportion of thu wall might be fred and
sluice put in where Silver Run
II empties into the De'n ara. II the marsh
6! owne would Hssiet in paying for tho
X{ work, say one third Of 1t, be believed it
q would be goud plan for the county to
sdo it, If the wall was put up, the
road itself could be repaired for small
Bum of money.
A|3 Mr.. Armstrong believed that to re-
ms pair the wall would cost much more
than 5000, and Mr. Lynn said that
4iz3roperty owners who suggested the
king of the wall had axes to Grind,
Ind IA for helping to pay for it, that
5 ftory had been heard before. MIR. Lynn
doubted the right of the coSrt to build
az Ia bank along the river. Mr. Willis
thought If that were the best way to
~ &ccompish the object desired 1t would
3aAAszhe right. Mr.. Chandler believed the
{EHll would cost S10.0 or S15, 900.
3e was satisfied that the present court
N ould not have built the road as the
fprmer court did, for by erecting tht
,onR bridge which spans Silver Rur
r Nome distance from where it was
seoted, it would have saved thousand:
w dollars.
Mr.. Elliott drew attention to the in.
jgnificanoe of the revenue from the
Il &eighborhood as compared with this
money that has been spent there, ant
Unmarked that the county would havi
een in pocket had it condemned tn,
and.
Mr. Lynn wondered il 1t would no
\ 4quire an act of the Legislature t,
How the court to build river wall
2Np enc could answer the question, bu
F. Lynn admitted to Mr.. Willitt
u f|iat the court had expended money Il
4 Ssist in maintaining wall between
4 IA VI Castle and Port Penn.
4 Mr.. Willis wanted the matter o
3 Eai lding wall looked into further s
l8 to ascertain il the property owner
would assist in the work. But hi
&motion on that line was defeated. Mr.
hrmstrong declared that the delay il
y 8k fpairing the road would cost tn
8gounty 1000 loads of dirt to replac
Mat washed away by the high tides
1t was decided, on motion to hen
Lahe bids received by Mr. Armstrong 70
Hpairiug the road. Mr. Arrustron
WANTED the motion to comprise also til
Efcsration that the con tract BIZ awarde
"a the lowest and best bidder, and sal
8 the contract was not to be awarded
~ would not read the bids, as he di
e ~ think it fair to the bidders in cas-
hers bids " ere asked for. However
" III was decided first to hear the bids an
N to consider the awarding Of III
M s3t}fract.
38fore reading any, Mr.. ArmRtron
az plained that there was one bid suit
ltfed, from which the bidder desire
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