The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-03


 board, shared jointly by the Edgewood Land company is the breaking down of Red Mountain and the monster cut which connects Shades and Jones val leys. This was the dream and ambition of many boards and commissioners courts which preceded and has at last been accomplished
 In its contract work, the board has been particularly careful to hold every contractor to his specifications. This was never possible until q special en- gineer was employed to lay out and watch the progress of the improve ments. Work Done
 Following is a complete list of the work which has been done by contract since January l, 1909, when the present board went into office:
 Fifty-foot span reinforced concrete bridge over Pinson branch at Mount Pin son, S13so.
 Thirty-two-foot span reinforced concrete bridge over Dry creek. near Trussville, ss04 .25
 Thirty-fve-foot span reinforced concrete bridge over Cedar branch on Pinson road, s771 Il. Thirty -five-foot span reinforced concrete bridge over Camp branch, Wylam Elbow road, s1052.79. ty-fve-foot span reinforced concrete bridge over Blue creek on Adger-Johns road, s1404.27. Twenty-foot span reinforced concrete bridge over Lacy's branch on Pinson road, $4s9 .82. Two 16-foot spans reinforced concrete bridges over branches on South Park road, s7S5 .55.
 Two 12-foot reinforced concrete bridges over Dry branch near Thomas. $40 94 Twelve-foot span reinforced concrete bridge dver branch near East Thomas, sl107 AZ. Eight-foot span reinforced concrete bridge over branch near Village Springs, | s16S. Four-foot span arch culvert, Brook | side, $121.57.
 Fiftyfoot span steel bridge over Wat kins branch on Monteval1o road, S1035. .95.
 Eighty-foot span steel bridge over Black creek. near Arcadia Mines, s2236. 33. Eighty-foot span steel bridge over creek near Village Springs. s2063 .23 | Fifty-foot span steel bridge over Black creek near Newcastle, s1o22. 50.
 Eighty-foot span steel bridge over Five Mile creek, Brookside, S3214.22.
 Eighty-foot span steel bridge over Five Mile creek, Cardiff, s34o2. 15. l Two hundred and sixty-fve-foot steel l approach over Five-Mile creek to old bridge at Cardiff, s2366. One hundred and six-foot steel joist and hard rails for repairs on bridge over Val | ley creek, s530.
 one mile of Vivian Elbow road, $S94O. B.
 Grading two miles and macadamizing one milo of Blue Creek road s3s0S 16 | Grading and macadamizing one and | seven-tenths miles of Powderly-S South | Park road, $2672.14.
 Grading and macadamizing one and twenty-five one-hundreths miles of Vil- lage Springs road, $50895
 Grading and macadamzng one and one-tenth miles of Fourteenth avenue | Bessemer road. S267992.
 Grading and macadamizing one and two- tenths miles of road Shades mountain road, s3392 10.
 Macadamizing 5000 feet of Shades noun tain road, s1510.50. ~f
 Grading one-half mile Coaldale and Sib- liville road S350.
 Macadamizing 5o6 North Birmingham road, S96.25.
 Approaches for 5o-foot span Mount Pin son. s327. .92.
 Approaches for 12-foot span at Thomas, s209. .25.
 Approaches for 12-foot span East Thom- as, Sl99. .08.
 Approaches for so-foot span Arcadia, S4610.
 Approaches for 50-foot span Newcastle, s45 .00
 Approaches for 32-foot span Trussville, s325 45.
 Total amount of contracts, s55, ,503. .9S.
 Examination for Overseers
 As fair sample of just how thoroush the board proposes to be in pushing the repair of damages wrought by the storm, the following critical examination through which the overseers will be put at the meeting Tuesday, might be cited: