Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-04-12
To COMPLETE
STATE HIGHWAY

Colonel William Linn, inspector of
the State highway department, has ar
rived in this city and is snugly domicil-
ed at the MOntour house. He brings
the good news that not only will the
two sections of State highway between
Danville and MaLsdale be completed
Immediately, but also that there are
no grounds for fear that the State will
/ withhold aid for the reconstruction of
North Mill street, norEthat there will
be any undue delay in getting the
work under way
I On next Monday Fiss q Hartman,
who reconstructed the section of high
way between the Valley township line
and point near Wise's hotel. will he
on the ground to complete their work.
Colonel Linn has appeared "a few days
in advance to inspect the road and de-
| termine fully what remains to be done
in order to bring the road up to specifi-
cations.
Fiss q Hartman were obliged to
leave the ground last fall before they
had fully completed their work. They
had adopted the plan, however, of full
ly finishing the highway section by
section, as they advanced, so that when
winter set in and they were obliged to
abandon the work, although they had
not applied the finishing touches to
the farther end, yet there was a long
stretch of the road that was completed
and turned over to travel. Unfortunate
ly the finished road developed some
weak spots, where the wheels cut
through the macadam and before the
winter was half over depressions APP
peared that made it bad for vehicles
and seemed out of place on State high
way where none but the best of mater
ial is supposed to be used and none but
the most approved methods of construc-
tion employed
Colonel Linn explains that such de-
fects are likely to occur in macadam
under certain conditions and are to be
attributed neither to poor material nor
to careless work. In the present in
stance the limestone used happen ed to
be of IA sort that lacked cohesive
qualities, so that while generally in
macadam the tendency of the lime
stone is to cohere and to become Gem
ented together, developing great re-
sisting qualities, on the Mausdale road
at certain spots it lay like so many
loos stones, the result being that un-
der heavy traffic deep ruts soon ap-
peared.
Colonel Linn states that it will re-
quire comparatively little work to fix
the highway up as good as new. The
road bed may have to be reconstructed
at few spots, but the job will not
take long even with the work to finish
that could not be completed last fall
At the furthest Colonel Linn states
that Fiss and Hartman ought to be off
the ground in three weeks time
The Maryland Construction Com
pany will also probably be on the
ground next week. As before explain
ed the last named company have to go
over their entire section of highway
recrowning the road. After this is
done, the inspector states, the highway
will show up in excellent shape and
will really be a fine piece of work.
Colonel Linn regards the reconstruc-
tion of North Mill street as an inn
provement which ought to be pushed
through without a bit of delay. 1t
seems to fill the bill completely as one
of those propositions that the Sproul
act of May lst., 1905, was designed to
cover. He agrees with council that
sewer should be laid on the east side
of the street to take care of the resi-
dences that abut, but he is firmly of
the opinion that nothing less than a
sixteen inch pipe should be employed.