The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-01-23

yards of brick, with prospects or lay
ing $4,000 yards in 1907.
Savannah is buying brick from
Birmingham and laying them with
city labor. Waycross secured $4,000
yards of brick on sand foundation
for sI57. Townsville has contracted
for $4,000 yards of brick, and La
Grange has taken 10000 yards of. the
same material In addition to this,
Fulton county, which owns its btu
lithic plant, has laid 10000 yards in
Atlanta and contemplates several
miles of this paving in 1907
In Florida. Jacksonville has awarded
at S1.61-$ 81 contracts for approx
Uately ten miles of streets. Brick on
sand foundation will be used. Tampa
and West Tampa are botn laying this
material on sand.
Mississippi has seen work done in
several cities, and in 1907 will see
probably half million yards under
contract. Hattiesburg is laying 25.-
600 yards of bitulithic, paying s2.35
for it, and about the same amount of
brick. Vicksburg is laying $4,000
yards of brick at s2.25. and Meridian
has completed brick contracts let in
1905. Jackson. NatcheZ. Gulfport.
Vicksburg. and nearly every city of
over 1000 inhabitants is projecting
street improvements.
Alabama has been unusually pro-
gressive Birmingham has laid and
contracted for 100000 yards of btu
lithic and about 10000 yards of brick.
Mobile has taken $4,000 yards of btu
lithic at s2.15. Admission is laying
10000 yards of bitulithic. Montgom-
cry has awarded small contracts for
asphalt, bitulithic and brick.
Down in Louisiana much work has
been done. New Orleans has awarded
nearly 10000 yards of bitulithic and
SIS, 900 yards of asphalt. This marks
the entry of bitulithic into this city.
which has been usuing asphalt exclu-
sively. Baton Rouge has laid $4,000
yards of bitulithic at S2.24- Shreve-
port has completed last years btu
lithic contracts, and given a few thou
sand yards to asphalt. Lake Charles
has contracted for 10000 yards of
brick at s2-10- Donaldsonville award
ed the bitulithic people 10000 yards
at $3.50.
In Texas bitulithic and brick pave
LuSALS nave DSSn ldlu " nan a LAlAA-
lion yards, with the prices lOr the for
mer ruling about S2.35 and of the lat
ter from S210 to s225. Dallas has
invested about 100000 for $4,000
yards of bitulithic, and is laying a
little brick. FL Paso is laying $4,000
yards of bitulithic. In Galveston,
Houston, Austin, Dallas, Paris, and
Gainesville, nearly 100000 yards of
brick has been laid or put under con-
tract. FIT. Worth has taken up btu
ithic to the extent of $4,000 yards.
Arkansas holds the record for the
largest individual contract in yard
age Fl Smith gave to a Cincinnati
firm a contract for 100000 yards of
brick pavementS, which will practi-
cally cover the entire town. The
price was 80 IL cents a yard and the
brick, which will be made IN the
town, will be laid on sand. Hot
Springs gave $4,000 yards to asphalt
and Little Rock has tried hard to lift
her streets out of mud, only to be
stopped by injunctions at the instance
of land owners. Contracts for 10000
yards of pavements have been held
up by such means. In 1907 Fayette-
vile, Pine Bluff and other cities will
let contracts.
Tennessee has done comparatively
little Knoxville, acting under its
new law, has awarded s2S0,000 in con-
tracts OF this 10000 goes for btu
lithic at 1927 a yard; about $4,000
for brick at S2.17 a yard; and the
rest for asphalt. in two contracts, at
$1-9T and 81 a yard. Memphis has
resurfaced Main street, using asphalt
instead of the old granite blocks, and
is beginning TO improve Poplar street
with the same material Nashville
has laid a few granite blocks, but is
planning great things for this year.
In Kentucky, Louisville has done
very little. Paducah has laid $4,000
yards of bitulithic and $4,000 of brick.
Lexington has laid few wood blocks.
This state WILL probably, lag further
behind this year than any.