The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1910-06-11
ROAD CONTRACTS
AWARDED
Spotsylvania Road Board has Busy
Session
R. G. lAsslTtR SUCCESSFUL BIDDER

The Board of Public Roads of Spot
sylvania county held an important
meeting in rooms of Business Mems
Association here Thursday. Members
present were Mr.. Geo. w. Perry, pres
ident; DIR. w. A. Harris, secretary;
Capt. NJ. B. \Rowe and Mr.. w. M.
ThOrburn, with Commonwealth At
torney I. Stokeley Coleman. Others
present were Messrs. Henry Warden
and Thos. II. Harris. of this city; l..
X. Colbert and T. F. Morrison, of
Spotsylvania.
Capt. Rowe stated that in view of
certain reports he decided to go to
Richmond and investigate the matter
and inspect all bids in the Office of the
State Highway Commissioner; that
Mr.. Henry Warden had told him that
he was under the impression that big
mistake had been made in the
matter of some of the bids and
that he had heard rumors to that
effect. He, therefore, invited Mr.
Warden to accompany him, which he
did, and together they went over the
whole matter with the State High
way Commissioner and that everything
was in correct shape and no mistake
had been made, further than some
small discrepancy in some OF the figures
of the bidders, which had been correct
ed by the Highway Commission, and
did not materially affect the result.
Mr.. Warden was asked by Capt.
Rowe to make a statement to the
board. Mr.. Warden submitted the fig
ures of the two bids, which the board
had under consideration, as finally
worked out in the Office of the Highway
Commissioner, and also read letter
from the Commissioner, which was a
copy of one sent to each member of the
board explaining the contracts and
bids.
The two bids under consideration
were as follows:
By Morris By r. G..
& Gunter. Lassiter.
CORTLAND Dis t...y$39, 900 6S $37, SlS "a
Fredericksburg TO
Gayle's Bridge. 1881 81 Ii, 779 50
Plank Road, Fred
icksburg, to Dis
trict Line........... 1886 81 4.4OS 10
Court House Road
TO Massaponax... 1892 20 9,O92 70
River Road. ........... 1853 50 1913 Oh
Chancellor DistrictS3O, SSl 81 $50, 07s 80
Plank Road to Ca
tharpin Road. 6,S31 So 7,473 "a
Gordon Road......... 1898 90 7,1S3 SO
Five-Mile Fork to
Oh ancellorsville 1921 70 TO- 2l W
Mr.. Colbert, Mr.. Harris and Mr..
Morrison asked number of questions,
all of which were discussed in order
and answered.
Capt. Rowe then offered the follow
ing resolution, seconded by Mr.. Thor
burn:
Resolved, That the contract for the
work advertised, and for which bids
were received and opened on June LIST,
be awarded to Robt. G. Lassiter, it APP
pearing that he is the lowest bidder.
Reserving, however, TO this board the
right to withdraw from said contract
either the River Road or the Pike, or
both. should investigation convince the
board that such withdrawal will be for
the best interests of CORTLAND and
Chancellor districts and of the county.
DR.. Harris offered resolution, which
did not receive a second, to the effect
that all bids be rejected and that the
Road Board proceed to build the road
under the supervision of the State
Highway Commissioner. Common
wealth's Attorney Coleman advised the
board to adopt DR.. Harris's resolution.
DR.. Harris also offered a resolution
as a substitute for Capt. Rowe's reso-
luton requiring the contractor to begin
and continue work in both districts at
the same time, which did not meet
with a second.
After a long discussion the vote
was taken and Capt. Rowe's resolution
was adopted, Messrs. Perry, ThOrburn
and Capt. Rowe voting for it, DR..
Harris being the only other member.
1t was then decided unanimously to
build a macedam road from Spotsyl-
vania C. H. to Gayle's Bridge as far as
the State aid funds will go. This will
fill out the connecting link between
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania c. h.
The recent publication that the con-
tracts for building the roads in Spot
sylvania county had been awarded to a
Newport News firm was erroneous. 1t
was supposed at that time that the bid
of the Newport News men was the
lowest, but when the bids were
figured out this was found not to be
the case.
The contract has now been awarded
to Mr.. Lassiter, of Southside Virginia.