The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-29
(REDDING) ROAD IMPROVEMENT IN BEDDING TOWN Looks as if State Highway Commissioner Macdonald Will Not Approve
 Sunset Hill Pro-
 ject. AUTO SLIDES DOWN HILL
(special to Farmer.)

Bedding, July 29-To Goodman & Trumbull of Litchf1eld has been awarded the contract for building the State road across the Ridge. The sec tion covered by the contract is 2,7OO feet. For about 1,600 feet the speci- f1cations require a layer of matched in stone eight inches deep and a cover of hardening material of the same thickness, the whole to be closely packed by a steam roller. This stretch carries the road northward to the brow of the hill which begins opposite the John Close house. From that point to the Five Points, there will be no stone ballast, the improvement work consisting of grading, crown shaping the roadbed and packing with the roller. The price is S1-07 per Hneal foot for the stone section and AZ cents per foot for the other Work on the job will be commenced next Monday. The contractors were the only bidders. The total cost will be $2,109.
 Of almost as much interest to the eastern section of this town is the contract for which has also been awarded A sharp bend in the steep est part of the hill has always made the place terror to, travellers. The hill is to be cut down and reduced to a uniform grade with fill at the bot tom which will be IA feet in the deep est part. The cutting down of the hill SO as to afford a straight line of road way must be accomplished by blasting through solid rock. The contractor is E. F. Mills of Easton whose bid was 2,750. The only other bidder was the B. D. Pierce Go. of Bridgeport. This job will also be started next Monday.
 Highway Commissioner Macdonald Selectman Banks and L. O. Peck in- spected the Sunset Hill road which is claimant for State improvement work in connection with the offer of MT. Peck and Commodore Luttgen to each contribute $1, ,000 towards the inn is one and one-eighth miles, and the question for the commissioner to de- termine was whether the project should be aided by funds from the towns State appropriation. There would be no question about the matter were it not for the fact that the Sun set Hill road is virtually parallelled by the newer highway which skirts the hill on the west. This road attracts most of the travel on account of the easier grade and in part has already been improved with State money. MT Macdonald did not give an immediate decision. but in a subsequent conver- sation with MT. Banks plainly inoi- cated that he was not inclined to ap- prove the Sunset Hill project The work, to be done in the right manner would cost from $10,00o to $15,000 and the balance from the present appro- priation after paying for the Ridge improvement will be only about $5, ,0OO Where this should be laid out was the next question and the commissioners talk showed that he favored the mile stretch from the Episcopal church corner southward. There is already State roadway at each end of this sec tfon and the filling in of such gaps on main lines is feature of the commits sioner's settled policy.
 Weston has sold to Wilbur A. Smith and Dr. Clark of Norwalk about 40 acres of land situated in the lower part of this town and bordering on the Saugatuck river near what is known the Devils Mouth. The same parties already own 12 or 15 acres at this point which they bought several years ago with the idea of making it the headquarters for a fish ing club, a plan that has not been carried out. The Hull tract forms part of the territory which would be flood ed by the construction of the high dam planned to furnish power for the projected electric railway from Bridge port and Norwalk to Bethel by way of this town. A Greenfield Hill man took a three years option on the property supposedly on behalf of the Bridge port Traction Go. The option was re- newed upon it's expiration and has still year or two to run.
 The former Zeke Burr place at the head of the Glen has been purchased by Bernhard Won Bachemnausen of Mt. Vernon. It is rumored that he is wealthy. and intends to improve the of the most picturesouely beautiful