Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-23
MANY MILES OF
ROADS PLANNED
REPORT OF HIGHWAY C0MMIS-
SION is FILED
CONSTRUCTION UNDER WAY ON
Ell MONTE ROAD
Complete Location Survey Made on
1904 Miles of Highway and
Office Work Done on
21.19 Miles


sion. for the six months ending Jun
80, 1909, was filed yesterday with tn
board of supervisors. The report snow
the preliminary work done, in cor
nection with the various phases OF IN
good roads project. Total expenditure
for the period covered by the repor
are given as $34,920.3I and amount o
hand July l, including donation
81. $50. as 81, ,045, ,3057S. The report !
full, follows:
The Los Angeles county highway
commission hereby submits It's
semi-annual report ending June ~,
1909, as provided for in section IA,
chapter 349, statutes of 1901 ap-
proved March II, 1907, showing the
amount of money in the highway
inproyement fund, the contracts
entered into or other obligations IN
CURED by the commission and still
outstanding, the highways in course
of Improvement and completed ana
the condition of the work on each,
and other information that may be
of interest to the public.
Following is submitted a state
ment showing the amount of work
done on each particular road:
SAN FERNANDO ROAD-On
1907 miles complete location survey
has been made. OF this work 5%
miles has been done, commencing
at a point about two miles this SIDE
of Newhall pass and running north
from that point across Newman
pass over difficult location. This
section of road includes tunnel
44O feet long. All field engineering
work is complete for the construc-
ton of the tunnel and has involved
a large amount of difficult survey
inc. in order to secure the best ana
most economical location. Complete
location survey has been made for
the bridge across the Tahuenga
wash; survey for the Verdugo WASH
bridge has been made, a reinforced
concrete bridge eighty feet in length
designed and specifications approved
and contract let for its construction
for $3.50, and approximately one
half of the construction work on
same has been completed. About
two miles of the field notes nave
been plated in the office. Seven
deeds for rights of way have been
prepared and location surveys are
in nrogress from Los Angeles north.
SUNSET LEVARD--HOLLY-
WOOD TO WILSHIRE-Abou one
mile of this road has been sur
veyed and the right of way &C
uuired through three different prop
critics, and three deeds prepared
for same.
WILTSHIRE BOULEVARD-CNa
tional Military home to the cor
porate limits of the city of Los An
geles. This road is 7.73 miles in
length. Complete location survey
has been made, all office work done,
including plating, mapping, pro
filing, cross-sectioning and estab-
fishing grade lines, preparing and
designing six reinforced concrete
and eighteen corrugated metal cul-
verts. specifications drawn for the
grading and macadamizing of the
same, which have been adopted by
the highway commission and ap-
proved by the board of supervisors,
and the work for the construction
of said boulevard is now being ad-
vertised for bids A donation of
1850 has been made to the highway
Improvement fund to pay for eX-
ira cost of grading of east end of
Wiltshire boulevard. Condemnation
proceedings have been instituted
for the acquisition of the third in
terest of the Rindge heirs in the
property held jointly by the Rindge
heirs and the Clark & sherman
Land company, for the purpose of
making the right of way 100 feet
in width, the property being To-
Gated between Los Angeles and
Preuss road. This will give a right
of way 100 feet in width from Los
Angeles to the National Military
home.
LOS ANGELES AND REDONDO
ROAD-9.O4 miles in length. Com
plete location survey has been
made: two additional miles have
been surveyed between the city of
Los Angeles and Hyde Park along
each side of the Santa Fe railway,
looking toward the establishment OF
the permanent road along one or the
other of these two routes, but at the
present time it has not been detin-
itely determined as to whether or
not this desired change can be
made.
MANHATTAN BEACH ROAD
1.SS miles in length, westerly from
the Redondo Beach road to Manhat-
tan Beach Complete location sur
vey has been made.
REDONDO AND WILMINGTON
ROAD-TWo deeds have been pre-
pared and executed, making a slight
change in the route.
HARBOR BOULEVARD-TOt
length 113S miles; complete location
survey has been made and two ad-
ditiOnal surveys aggregatlng APP
proximately seven miles, in slightly
different locations. This extra sur
vey was occasioned in order that
the most desirable location of the
road through Niger slough might
be determined. From Victoria street
south to the north boundary Of VIII
-. hoe
been accomplished, including map
ping profiling, rOss-sectiOning, es-
tablishing grade, designing plans
for three reinforced concrete and
eight corrugated metal culverts,
specifications prepared, which have
been adopted by the highway COM
mission and approved by the board
of supervisors, the work advertised
and the contract for same let to
w. N. Crandall & Co. for $17 430,
to be completed within 100 calendar
days from June II, and construction
work is now under way. These
specifications cover the grading and
culverts only of this portion Of the
Harbor boulevard inasmuch as it
is over a new right of way which
has never been used fer road pur-
poses and on account of the deep
fills necessary through Niger
slough, in order that it may have
sufficient time to settle before plac-
ing macadam pavement thereon. Six
deeds have been prepared and exc
cuted for the necessary right of
way.
GARDENA ROAD-Palm ave-
nue) 039 mile in length, extend
ing from Harbor boulevard westerly
to the corporate limits of the Shoe
string strip of the city of Los An
geles opposite Gardena. Complete
location survey has been made
Los ANGELES AND WATTS
ROAD-(Slauson avenue and Comp
ton avenue to Watts.) Three miles
I'm length. Complete location sur
Vey has been made.
COMPTON Acknowledgment