The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1907-07-26
ROADS
FOR ST. LUC|E
Order for Up-to-Date Road
Making Plant Placed.
MACHINERY HERE SOON
Commissioners Personally Investigated
Workings OF Machinery, Satisfied
as to It's Merits.

G. II. Edwards, j. II. Baker, p.
Raulerson, p Kroegel and j. F, Bel,
county commissioners of st. Lucie
county, returned last Friday night from
Atlanta, Ga, and Gainesville, Fla,
where they have been to investigate
the adaptability of up-to date road ma
chinery to the construction of the pro-
posed rock roads for st. Lucie county.
The commissioners made this investi-
cation at the expense of the Good
Roads Machinery Co., of Kenneth
Square, Pa, who spared neither ex-
pense nor courtesy in substantiating
their claims for their machinery. So
impressed were the commissioners by
the highly efficient manner in which
the machinery constructed roads under
the most adverse conditions that they
have placed an order for a complete
road making plant, which is expected
here by the first of September.
Following are the resolutions of the
board, and the contract with the Good
Roads Machinery Co.
The Board of County Commissioners
in and for st. l.ucie County, Florida,
having met in special session on this the
10Th day of July, A. ID. 1907, for the
purpose of considering the purchase of
road building machine, to be purchased
from the Good Roads Machinery Com
pany of Kenneth Square, Pennsylvania,
upon the conditions herein named as
below gwen, in an order dated the 10th
day of July, 1907, do hereby resolve and
agree to have the machinery therein
named and described shipped to the
chairman of said board for said county.
And they do resolve and agree fur
Their that the stipulations and guaran-
antees named in said order, as given
below shall he met according to the
tenor thereof which are as follows, to-
wit:
Fort Pierce, Fla, July Is, 1907.
The Good Roads Machinery Co., Ken
nett Square, Penn.
GENTLEMEN:
Please ship to c. II. Edwards, chair
man Board of County Commissioners,
Fort Pierce, st. Lucie County, Florida,
the following machinery:
One steel Champion road machine.
Two Babcock rooter plows.
One No. 3 Champion rock crusher,
(mounteO.
One 80 foot elevator for No. rock
cr,isher.
One l5-horse power Ajax center
crank engine, (mounted,
One Champion winding drum, 600 feet
inch wire cable.
One IA yard cable car, (steel lined.
One ton IL pound steel rail,
One 3O-horse power double compound
Port Huron roller, with dividing front
rolls. 80 inch rear wheels, with inch
/ extensions,
Six Port Huron roller bearing stone
! cars.
Which machinery st. Lucie County.
Florida, agrees to receive, unload ana
nav the Coed Roads Machinery Com
pany the sum of ten thousand and tif-
teen dollars and eighty eight cents,
SlO,Ol5.S8); two thousand one hundred
and eighty-seven dollars (S2, $4,000 Of
which amount above named to be pay
able on delivery, and the balance IN
three equal annual payments.
The Good Roads Machinery Company
guarantees the above named machinery
to he of good material and workman
ship, first class in every respect. and
the latest pattern of this class of ma
chinery on the market. They further
guarantee the above hauling engine to
; draw six Port Huron stone cars, loaded
with stone, on any firm macadam hard
road, on grades not to exceed 4 per
cent, and to pull at least one car or
graded sand roads, dump the same anl
, get itself and car back on the macadam
They agree further to leave an eX
merit with the machinery for two weeks
at the expense of the company.
The above machinery is to be settled
for in cash and time warrants as abov,
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