Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-11
AWARD CONTRACT
TO BUILD BRIDGE
ACROSS VERDUGO
SUPERVISORS AND HIGHWAY
PROMOTERS MEET
FRICTION MARKS OPEN MEETING
AT COURT HOUSE
Representatives of Advisory Commit
tee Take Exception to Short Time
Allowed for Consideration
of System

After a great deal of effort ana
much discussion covering period OF
several weeks, the board of supervisors,
the good roads advisory committee
representatives and the highway COM
mission met in open session in the
board room of the supervisors at the
court house yesterday.
The advisory committee was repre-
scented by Sidney A. Butler, It's chalr-
man; f. w. Blanchard, secretary, and
A. P. Fleming.
While everything passed off smooth
ly, there was an undercurrent of fr1c-
ton, particularly marked in the con-
sideration, or lack of consideration
, manifested by certain members of the
supervisorlal body toward the highway
commission.
The representatives of the advisory
committee took exceptions to the short
time allowed them to consider matters
pertaining to the new highway system
which have already come to the atten-
ton of the supervisors.
The contract for constructing a
bridge across the Verdugo wash was
awarded to tile Union Iron works
whose bid of $3.50, was the lowest OF
twelve submitted to the board
Not Fault Finders
Mr.. Butler and Mr.. Blanchard ex-
~
considered as fault-fnding, no time in
which to discuss the building of this
bridge had been granted to the adj
visory committee.
Reasonable time in which to make
an investigation of proposed work
they declared, should be given when
anything in connection with the good
roads matters is being considered.
When the highway commission
through its chairman. c. D. Daggett
requested permission to rent two more
rooms in the International bank
building at rental of $26 month
Supervisor Eldridge suggested that
But it is already under advisement,
and has been for some time" protested
Mr.. Daggett.
Then let it stay there" tartly re-
sponded Mr. Eldridge, following his re-
mark by a demand for report of the
number of men employed by the COM
mission and their work
"I don't object to their employment,
but I want something to show for it.,
explained the supervisor. 1.-THE results
from their work have been small, so
far as I can see," he added.
The labor thus far, said Mr.. Dag
gett, has been confined chiefly to field
work.
Has Completed Eighty Miles
The commission, he said, has COM
pleted eighty miles of road survey, and
specifications for the harbor road will
be ready for presentation to the board
on Monday.
These specifications, he said, are the
third set changes being necessary ow-
ing to the altering Of the line of the
proposed boulevard
A report showing the number of men
employed and the work in which they
are engaged was filed with the board
some time ago and was discussed yes
terday.
The various offers to supply rock for
use on the good roads were discussed
at some length and the matter was
continued to Thursday In addition to
the two propositions received to furnish
rock from a Glendora quarry and a
quarry located in San Dimas canyon,
another offer was made yesterday by
rock owners in the Little and Big I'll
junga canyons. The owners of these
quarries offer all the rock, sand and
gravel needed for a period of ten years
or less at a cost to the county of $24,-
900 a year. including in their offer in
ducements in the way of transportation
facilities.