The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-11-26
REPAIRS BY COUNTY
AGGREGATE 100000
Fhirty-six Bridge Repair
Contracts Let by Board
During Year.
UILD NEW ROADS
Wayne Township Receives
Benefit of Most of Money
Expended.

Kew roads and the larger bridge re
pairs made this year under contracts
let by the board of county commission
ers aggregate more than $500. 900. The
season Is practically finished and
be let in 1918.
The latest DAD contracts let were
those for the construction of the Haas
concrete road and the Barton con
crete and brick road. The two con
tracts totalled more than $4,000. The
bonds for these roads will be issued
within ten days.
The National road east is being con-
structed of water bound macadam at
an expense to the county Of $4,000.
The bonds for the payment of the road
were issued May /. The e. r. Cox
road and the Thomas A. Morrison
road. under construction on the
ty line between Wayne and Randolph
counties, are being built at a cost for
the two of 1850, Randolph county.
paying an equal amount
The total cost for the five roads is
about $144,66O This amount does not
include the cost of minor road re-
pairs, fills, grading and graveling and
township road work.
SO Bridge Repairs.
Thirty-six bridge repair contracts,
each of which is for more than $500,
reach $46,340.27. This includes new
arches, new bridges, spans, large fills,
d~ismantling of bridges and general re-
pair work. h amounts of smaller
contracts have not been compiled. but
1t Is estimated that work done in the
county aside from h above, will
reach $4,000, most of which was
caused by the spring floods.
The total amount of the five road
contracts and the large bridge con
tracts is $191,000.27 q.
When the bonds for the Haas and
Barton road improvements have been
sold, the county will be indebted in
the sum Of 1896, 1872 in bonds for Dad
improvements made since 1908. The
total amount Of bonds issued since
1908, on which part Of the bonds still
remain to be paid, is $379,540.
Wayne Gets Benefit.
Wayne township has received the
benefit of most of the money expend-
ed in this way, the improvements paid
for out of the $379,54O bond issue
since 1908, totalling 1886, 100 in Wayne
township and only $43 ,440 in all other
parts of the township.
The following table, compiled by
Auditor Bowman, shows the bond is
sues of the county since 1908 for DAD
construction work in Wayne township,
and the amount of the issues still out
standing:
South L street, $16, 900 issue; out
standing. $4,000.
National road west, $4,000 issue;
$3S,920 outstanding.
Easthaven avenue. $18,500 issue,
$16,650 outstanding.
Richmond and Liberty pike, $4,000
issue; $41.4O0 outstanding.
Chas. Minor Road, s31, 900 issue;
$31,000 outstanding.
North Tenth street and Spring
Grove. $32, 900 issue; $2S,SO0 outstand-
ing.
National road east, $51, 900 issue;
s51,00 outstanding.
Amount of issues, $250,10o; amount
paid $34,33o.
Bond issues and the amount paid
on them on township roads in all
townships in the county, except
Wayne township, are:
Washington township gravel road,
$4,000 issue; $500 outstanding.
Clarence Wright road, between Ran
dolph and Wayne counties, $3.50 is
sue. $6.462 outstanding.
Oliver Scantland road in Green
township, $4,000 issue; s12,6 800 out
standing.
e. r. Cox road ON county line, $5,-
900 issue, $4,000 outstanding.
Thomas A. MORRISON road on coun-
ty line, $2,260 issue; $2,260 outstand-
ing.