The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-10-22
Good Roads
Construction
In Fairrn!ont

a permanent development
and maintenance Of good
roads-roads that are not
merely passable under GER
tain conditions and during
certain seasons, but roads
that are a real benefit and
pleasure to all classes of peo-
pie 365 days in the year.
Fairmont and Marion county have
been reached by this great wave of
public sentiment and the people of
both Fairmont and Warrington dis
tricts have voted liberal bond issues
to build good and permanent roads.
Seven hunderd thousand dollars for
good roads. That is what the tax
payers OF the two districts have voted
upon themselves In order to secure
systems of roads which will make trar-
Gc easy all through the year and which
secure roads that will last for ut least
fifty years with little cost for main.
tenance.
1t has required long and persistent
effort 10 educate the farmer and other
tax payers up to the great benefits OF
good roads, but the results from this
educational effort are rapidly being
naterializcd
What Fairmont Secures.
Fairmont will realize almost twenty
seven miles OF fne roads and streets
from the expenditure of the 100000
bond money. Nearly four miles OF this
total is streets within the corporate
limits of the city, while the remainder
will give system OF roads radlatlng
in all directions from the city as cen
ter to the district line, there being @
total OF nine distinct roads and street
contracts.
The contracts Tor this work have
been awarded during the present year
and the work will have been forty per
cent completed before the contractors
are run in by the winter freezes.
There is an immense amount of
work to be done in constructing these
roads, the first permanent road con-
struction attempted in the county.
The grading calls for the removal OF a
total OF more than 10000 square yards
OF dirt and rock, but much the larger
part Of this grading OUTSIDE the city
limits viii! be completed before winter
i sets in.
Contractors Busy.
The contractors have been very
busy with the work in the county while
they have been favored with good
weather, and large forces have been
at work steadily for the three con
tracing firms. The er.Ragland
Company, which have about sixty per
cent of the total work in the district,
have employed from $50 to 200 men
on their work alone, including those
at the rock qunrries near Warrington,
where they are securing the crushed
stone for concreting. This stone they
are hauling down in their own cars
over the Monongahela Traction lines.
BY November l this firm will have
completed the work on what is known
as contract No. 5, embracing 2.95
miles on the Fairmont and Barrnck-
Vile road. They have also about com.
pleted the grading on the road from
Dakota Mines through to Jamestown,
which totals two and three-t1fths miles.
The paving work which they are to do
on Parks avenue, Main street, Barney
street, Locust avenue and Jackson
street will not be completed until they
renew work in the next year. During
the the winter, however, the contrac.
tors will place the material for this
work, and this will enable them to
hurry 1t through when paving is start
ed. Brick is the material used in all
the work awarded to Lasseter & Rag
land.
The Atlantic Bitulithic Company
were successful in securing two pieces
OF the work, on which they are using
sheet surface on flve-inch concrete
base. They have the work on the
West Fork river road, amounting to|
81 miles, and on the Finchs Run road
Of 3.49 miles. The West Fork road
Will S0OH ue uluPlcbGut HuAC VtV"V
feet of the Finch road has already
been completed and in use. The re-
naming two miles OF this road will
not be surfaced until next year, though
the grading will be completed.
r. NJ. Sutton has two contracts, the
Katy to GAINESVILLE Of 3.1S miles and
Ices Run Road from Pine Grove via
Outlook Farmsto Cherry avenue, which
totals 35S miles. Brick is being used
on the former and tarvia will probably
be used on. the latter
The road work in this district is un-
der the supervision of CLANCY 6. Arm:
strong, road engineers, Of Washington,
Pa. Mr.. w. II. Armstrong, of the firm
is personally supervising the. work and
is assisted by Mesrs Linn and 2. II.
Talybott.
When all these contracts are com
.|pleted Fairmont district will have
5Iiprobably the best system Of road &of
any district in the stat and ~ rs DE;