Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-27
STATE HIGHWAYS
BEING REPAIRED
How the Roads Will Be Cared For
in This Section of Pennsyl-
vania by Bigelow
A MOUNTS APPORTIONED
IDauphin and Adjoining Counties
Do Well in the Allotment
of the Funds
A MOUNTS APPORTIONED

The ten days that have passed since
II was decided that the automobile
license fund should be turned over to
the State Highway Department for
maintenance and repair of roads, have
demonstrated that the amount of
work necessary to put the highways in
good shape far exceeds expectations.
Nearly 1000 men have been laboring
all over the State, and while great i'm
provement has been noticed in the
condition of the roads. officials of the
State Highway Department assert that
1t will be several weeks before a gen.
eral idea can be gained of the vast
amount of work that is being done.
The fiscal officers of the Common
wealth, after prolonged litigation in
which they were defeated agreed to
pay over to the State Highway Com
missioner the automobile funds neces-
sary to insure good roads throughout
the State. The amount involved in
the 1914 fund was approximately ST.
100000, while $250.000 remained from
the uneXpended portion of the 1918
funds.
Repairs First
In view of the lateness of the season
and the bast amount of work to he
done in filling up hole, cleaning out
bitches, culVerts and cutters, and
shaping up and rolling the highways
the State Highway Department has
decided not to begin resurfacing on
State Highways until the general con-
ditions of the roads has been inn
proved A fact not generally under
stood is that the automobile license
money is the only fund available for
repairing, maintenance or construc-
tion of State Highways. There is an
uneXpended balance for the maipte-
nance and repair of State-aid high
ways and the State Highway Depart
ment has been working on these roads.
The amount of State-aid maintenance
money now remaining is about
$4,000
From time to time additional au-
thorizations will be made by the main
tenance division for repairs on these
roads. on many of these State-aid
highways the repairs are extensive, in
Guiding resurfacing with bituminous
material and a practical Seconstruc-
ton of the road to secure a better and
more lasting highway.
Funds Apportioned
| Tn the district comprising Dauphin
Junata, Lebanon, Mifflin and Perry
counties $12,494.63 has been author
lied for maintenance this year.
In Susquehanna township, Dauphin
county, the macadam road running
from Harrisburg city line in State
street to Penbrook, and thence to
Lower Paxton, built in 1903, needs
$3,3O7. Thirty-two men and three
teams have been at work on this job
In Swatara township, Dauphin county
three-quarters of a mile of brick and
macadam road running from the post
office in Oberlin to and partly through
Enhaut to the intersection of the road
with Mohn street and then 900 feet
along Mohn street took $1,000. a
force Of men and two teams have beer
finishing this work.
In Delaware township Juniats
county, more than three-quarters OF
a mile of macadam road extending
between the south line of the borough
of Thompsontown to Thompsontown
station is taking 500 for repairs.
In Lebanon county the amount ap-
portioned for, State-aid maintenance
! will be spread over the county to pro.
duce the best roads possible, and re-
pairs will be made on all roads in.
cluding the highway from Kleinfelter-
Vile to Womelsdorf in Mill Greek
township and the road from Lebanon
to Mt. Zion.
In Jun1ata NaIlcy
In Union township, Miffiin county
, two miles of macadam on the Kisaco-
quillas road is taking $3.50 for repairs
while in Memo township in the same
= county a macadam road three miles
3 in length running from Union town
ship in q westerly direction will need
$500 for repairs in one portion and
$760 in another. Nineteen men and
S four teams have been put to work
= here already. In Armagh township
, lMiflin county, three-quarters of mile
of macadam highway, beginning at the
intersection of the road leading from
Milroy to the Nagney Quarry, with
e the road leading to Siglersville and
= from thence to the intersection OF
S the roads in the village of Siglersville
will take $503.56. A force of men and
two teams have been at work on this
job. Another portion of the Kisha-
7 coquillas road in Union township
t three-quarters of mile in length will
need 1870 for repair work. All oi
: these roads were built prior to 1910.
One mile and three quarters of ma
cadam road extending from a point
near the end of the Newport river
bridge to the road leading from New
port to Millerstown in Howe township
V Perry county, constructed in 1908, is
4 taking $4.135 for maintenance and
r repair This road is being resurfaced
l Sixteen men have been working here
]. with teams.
In the district comprising Cumber-