The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15
Commissioners Did Not Let Cen
tract Today.
Only Tive Bids Were Submitted
to Beard.
ONE WAS FOR BRICK.
The One for Macadam Exceeded
Engineers Estimate.
Considering Road With Prick
Center and Macadam Sides.


Sixth avenue road were opened at noon
today by the Shawnee county coIiiiilis-
sioners. The commissioners were not a
I,++Ie SURPRISED to find but two bids
hled with the clerk. Fortunately, now
ever one was on the macadam speei-
acations and one on the brick pave
ment proposition.
r. S. GilhIlan & Son submitted the
hid for brick and came within the esti-
mate cost of the county engineer, DIG
ding SIG 900 for the construction of the
brick pavement one and a half miles
long and twenty feet wide. The items
run. stone curbing % a linear foot
brick rs cents per square yard, spiking
s cents per square yard, and crushed
rock 81 go per cubic yard wagon meas
ure.
free by the county and also the crusheF
but the bidder is to quarry the rock
T. l. Campbell, for Campbell q
Veneer of Fort Scott, who nave oeeu
working all summer on the North 81 lie
dixie, submitted a bid on the macadaln
road at s6122.50. some $500 above the
estimate of the engineer. His bid Dy
items was: Crushed rock, $2.2S per
cubic yard and screenings, $1,75; splK-
ing, cents; rolling, 2.5 cents; SPHINX
ling, l cent per square yard.
The bid for macadam exceeding tne
estimate of the engineer can not pc
considered by the commissioners, Wnlle
the bid for brick paving advertised II
with the purpose of considering the ad-
visibility of accepting that kind of a
road under the advanced cost Will
hardly be accepted at this time and
there is a likelihood Of advertising for
new bids.
That new bids, and with specifica-
tions for another sort of construction,
will be asked for was practically de-
cided when a new kind of road at
great saving was proposed arc DID
upon by Gilhllan & Son
Brick With Macadam Sides.
This new road provides for a brick
paving fourteen feet wide with ma
cadam boundary of three feet on each
side. The bid on this for the mile
and a half is $12,450. Mr.. Gilfllan
was present to set forth the desirable
ity of the proposition
The macadam road as it now is,
he said, lis practically as good as new
along the sides and the base is as
good as ever, furnishing the finest
foundation for the brick road in the
world In this road the curbing stone
would be placed along each side of
the brick paving and the macadam
laid on the solid base of the old mac
adam outside of that The curbing
would be placed at a level of the en-
tire road crown, would hold the brick
and there would not be the
slightest possibility of the maeadam
outside settling below the surface on
of the solid base"
The proposition at once appealed to
the commissioners for IA feet of width
accommodates amply all travel while
the cheaper boundary would furnish
long as the brick in the center.
o. E. Walker, owner of the Park
View farm, and one of the fathers of
the West Sixth road. was in atten-
dance and agreed with the bidder and
commissioners that that sort of road
would be very satisfactory. There
have been a good many roads of that
kind built in several states and they
have proven to be excellent.
Mr.. Walker also stated that as for
the road extending past the corner OF
his farm one half mile west, it is in
very good condition and that he
would as soon see it oiled, believing
that the treatment would make it a
light as to that east in |
to the city.
Bid number three of Gilfllan & Son |
covered the possibility of the commits |
sioners cutting off that half mile also |
and stated $500 as the price of the |
new proposition for one mile, or from |
the corner of Walkers farm into the |
city.
good as all brick over the most travel |
I'd part of the road and the satisfac- |
.ory oiling of the west end at a low |
price would furnish the county practi- |
,ally as good a road as SIG, 900 would |
10.
If it is decided by the commission |
ers that the new sort of pavement |
would be satisfactory. new bids speci- |
wing the construction of it will be |
advertised for.
Should they decide, however, upon
III brick. then it is likely they will |
accept the bid of Gilfillan.
Again, should they decide to repair
he macadam road then new bids will |
rave to be advertised for as the one
submitted exceeds the engineers esti-
nate.
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