The Penn's Grove record., 1904-04-22
BOARD OF FREEHOLDERs.
Award Contract For P~ennsville-
Salem Road.

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Salem Road.
The April meeting of the Salem County
| Board of Chosen F~reehoIders was held il
| the Court House on the 18th. The com
mittee on the building OF the Penn's Neck
State road reported that they had receiv
ed six bids for its construction, as
follows:
| G. /. S~innickson, SIG, 295. rs
| B. +. Sweeten, IL, 800. rs
! Reeves & Davis, IL, 1885, As
J. A. Ware, 1920 5
J.. A. Bunyed 4 Co., l6,O5O.4 5
| Tuft & Lloyd, l4,O25. 46
The committee recommended thst the
| contract be awarded to Messrs. B. L.
| Tuft and r. III. Lloyd at the price speci-
| fed in their bid, and the Board accepted
| their recommendation. This road will be
| constructed wholly of shells and extends
from the Penn's Neck iron bridge to the
! centre oil P~ennsville, a distance of 5
87-1OO miles or 30993 feet, 26606 feet to be
| shell pavement 10 feet wide and / foot
| deep and 1887 feet to be shells IL feet
wide, IL inches deep in centre and s
inches deep on the edge. According to
the contract the road must be completed
by the 25th day of next September under
q forfeiture by the contractor of $40 a
day for every day the work shall remain
uncompleted. A bonus or premium of 81
week the be paid the contractor for each
week the road is completed before the
time specified in the contract. Josiah
Miller is the enigleer On the road, and
the committee is composed of Messrs.
w. J. Freas, VIM. Hannah, Richard B..
Griscom, j. w. Briant, David B. Fox.
In regards to the State road to be con-
structed in Woodstown, Clerk Ford read
a communication from Engineer l. O..
Acton stating that he had made a careful
r OF the Road and had submitted
two maps, one showing the location and
general direction of the centre line and
other the a profile Thereof. He suggested
certain grades where there must necessari-
ly he made some cuts and fills, and in thus
changing existing features, he deemed it
of great Importance to have the committee
20 over the ground to authorize such in
the street grades as may be necessary. He
also throught it advisable, as the Woods
town Borough Council will pay ten per
cent Of the cost of this road and keep it
in repair for fifty years, to also have their
cooperation and support. The Board
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road and the Clerk authorized to request
a committee from Woodstown Council to
meet with them. This road between the
mill pond iron bridge and the railroad
bridge will be constructed of Warren's
bituminous macadam, and the balance,
from the railroad bridge to the end of
the State road, constructed years ago, of
gravel.
Road Supervisor Dunn reported that
he in company with Freebooter Burk
| had made an examination of the Old
| mans State road (~stone) and it needed
repairing in several places. The gentle
| men also went over the Gloucester county
stone road and visited Freebooter Using
| er, seeking information as to how that
| county repaired her stone roads. Glou-
| cester county uses both gravel and fine
stone. Mr.. Dunn throught it advisable to
| purchase a barge of 100 tons of fine stone
| for repairing purposes and store the same
until needed. Freebooter Burk was given
discretionary power to purchase the same
and oversee the work of repairing.
A communication was received from
| Howard Keasbey, ESQ.,, stating that he
and his horse had been severely injured
| by the caving of the dirt to the approach
of a small bridge on the road from Jericho
| to Quinton. When the dirt caved Mr..
Keasbey was thrown from his horse and
the animal fell on top of him. The horse
was badly cut about the legs. Mr. Keasbey
commended that the county was liable and
that he wished to confer with a com
mittee regarding the matter. Messrs.
Briant and Freas was the committe
named
George Rumsey appeared before the
Board and asked that they consider the
proposition placing a sluice in the road in
Warrington township near Hawks
Bridge and doing away with the wooder
bridge over the road, thereby draining a
large scope of meadows over which tide
water flows. The matter was referred to
Messrs. Summerill and Griscom.
Road Supervisor Dunn called the
Boards attention to the causeway of the
Lower Creek State road a%pproachin
Hancock's Bridge. Nearly all the plank
ing and boards along the side of tn,
causway have decayed and the It'd,
water has badly washed they road, j
being only fifteen feet wide. He alse