Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-10-22

waterway is such that you can put l in iHermediate,p p.ers. We have cen- g s'rreted one such bridge on the Mon- 1 ticello road 50 feet long. All others are less than 4G feet We have ex- pended in the last year S3,5000O for such concrete bridges and now have contracts Outstanding for bridges un- der iconstruct ion to the amount of .$2- 1 35000. ' A5'z :, l We found on examination tli9t aall s.eel bridges except the ones con- struated by you last year over Boggy Bayou oni the Monticello road were ] in great need Of repa nting, which l necessitated, the letting of the cont 1 ract for such repaintng This was. l done and all such bridges have been very satisfactorily repainted wb! h Ahe
 rea lead and oil for Apnr ximaasely I $550.G0 This work has been sAtis- factor'ly done and the paint we Have ] now put on will be durable. There l has Leen all s:o14s Of paints put on the ] county b3ilges, some of which were I not. even worth .sthee labor necessary l to place hereons bu. what we have l now ptit on vii be reasonably perma- nent. s
 l You have also constructed and re- l psired considerable amount of
 wooden bridges. Bridges heretofore l built in the county have not been con- | structed of the requisite quality I of 1 timber and thickness which has ne-. l cessi ated large amount of recon I structicn and repairs. The wooden
 bridges new, rebuilt, repaired and
 constructed this year amount to Sll,- I 250.09. Immediately after my appoint ment I prepared standard plans for
 all wooden LTiIges to be built by the
 counIy and all bridges built or re-
 paired since Una date have been con- l structed Il accordance with such
 plans which are on file in the county clerks office. The. bridges construct ed under these plans are stronger and more durable than those heretofore | built in the county. All our new | bridges have full three inch floors, and :nasmuch as the floor struc ure is the weakest part of the bridge, it | S reasonable to believe that we will
 get as much longer life out of he bridges built under these specified
 tions han under those heretofore built. Every bridge let by your court since my appointment has been care fully inspected before the account was allowed, and 1 feel no hesitation Tn
 say ng that the bridges now being built are superior to any heretofore
 cons ructed in the county of like 4 nature.
 By the adoption of tEe system that
 you now rave in effect, and the aban-
 donment of the township road over
 seer iystem you have been enabled to
 work more roads in the past ten
 months than were ever worked be-
 fore in a similar length of time i'll the
 county. With the exception of Road
 Districts No. ? and No. 6 each road
 overseer will complete the working
 of practically every road ln his dls-
 triet before the end of the year. rms is a larger percentage of road Wofk
 than has ever been done before. we
 nave worked a number of roads which
 had had very little, if any work done
 on them previously. This has re- ouircd great deal of what m ght be
 called preliminary work that will not have to be done again next year.
 Next year when we go over the same
 roads we can complete them in much less lime, and am firmly of the opin-
 
 fen that we will be able next year fer , each oyerseer to work every public
 roaa in his district.
 There also appears in tae accounts paid during ahis fiscal year approXl- mately $200000 for steel bridges and [ repairs to same. This represents mainly the new steel bridge over Boggy Creek on the Monticello road wh' ch was really constructed last
 year No steel bridges have been constructed this year.
 : AS slated heretofore, have pre- pared standard plans for the con struction of various types of wooden : bridges, and also concrete bridges, as we'll as special plans for particular structures. All such general plans are on file in the office of the county } clerk. This gives us uniform bas s