Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-04-26
STATE HOUSE
State Highway Commission Is
Busy with Last Years I'm
completed Contracts-In-
surance Commission
er's CLEANUP Day.
Bulletin


| way Commission at the State House
shows that the commission is resuming
active operations on contracts let last
year and uncompleted at at the end of
the construction season. Work Was
| started March 18th on the federal aid
work between Portland and Brunswick
with a crew of Is men, this crew being
daily increased. and within two weeks
time work will be in full swing. The
highway commission is re-surfacing a
section of~the State aid road in the town
of Wells, work having been started on
April 18th, on this section. 1t is ex-
pected that this job will be completed
next Monday.
Operations nave been resumed in the
Monmouth contract. the contractor for
the work having been drawing gravel
| and stacking it side Of the roadj during
the past winter. Indications are that
| this section of State highway will be
speedily completed. The stretch is five
miles in length and the work is half COM
pieted,
The work at Norridgewock will be re.
stunned next Monday. This section ad-
joins the Madison section which was
completed last year and which alto
cether makes 81 miles. The Norridge-
wock section Is about one-half CON-
pleted.
Al the sections between Bath and
! Rockland, with the exception Of one
1t Wiscasset and one at Warren, were
completed last season. Work on these
! two sections has been under way for two
weeks and with good weather the Wis
casset section should be completed by
the first of June and the Warren sec
ton by the middle Of that month. This
will give % miles Of new State highway
| between Wooiwich ferry and Thomaston.
Operations will be begun at Carmel on
| next Monday and at Etna about the first
CT May. From four to six weeks should
finish up both of these contracts. This
will give 4 continuous improved road
from Newport to Hermon, a distance Of
about Is miles,
! The contractor on the Trenton section
began work on April 18th, with small
force of men trimming up and finish
ing the three contracts which carry the
road completely across the town total
ling six miles in length. This road was
nearly completed last fall and two more
weeks Of good weather at that time
would have seen 1t finished.
Work on the section at Dover will be-
gin next Monday and this section should
be completed by the first of July. The
contractor at Strong and Pennington
expects to resume work May, third and
in a short time.
The highway rom mission will start a
small force Monday. finishing section
of highway at Winthrop which was
begun last fall The section is about
two miles in length. One mile was sub.
graded and received it's first coarse of
gravel last fall, so not a great deal of
work remains to complete this section.
| This adjons the work at Monmouth and
when completed will give ten and one
half miles Of continuous improved road
between Greene Depot and Winthrop
The contractor at work at Northport
began drilling operations last Monday
and a small force Of graders will be put
| on the road next week.
The drilling of ledge was resumed dur.
ing the past week on the section at Houl-
ton and New Limerick and within two
weeks work will start on the completion
Of surfacing this section.
Much interest is manifested about the
State House in the meeting which will
be held In the council chamber next
Wednesday forenoon on the matter OF
the apportionment of the highway
funds for this year. Governor
Curtis says that anyone interested will
be given an opportunity to be heard. SC
| is Is expected that there will be a good
attendance at this session.
Under the caption Cleanup Day.
| Hon, Erastus J. Carter Of Stonington
| the insurance commissioner. in his frs
bulletin, issued Saturday. urges the mu
nicipal officers. boards Of trade. village
Improvement associations. public organ
izations as well az all public. spirited
citizens, to unite to make a special effor
| for such day. The bulletin says:
| Cleanup day in spring has become 9