Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-08

A summary Of State highway construc-
ton in Maine has been obtained from
the Maine State highway department py
the Touring Bureau Of the Maine Auto
mobile Association, for the Information
of the travelling public. and shows that
much excellent work is now in progress
all over Maine. The work, however, is
! in localities where good detours are
available and the stretches for the most
/ part are comparatively short. The two
longest detours, as we'll as the two poor
est ones, are between the village Of Dun
stan. in Scarboro, and Portland; and be-
tween Freeport and Brunswick. These
however, are both very good. in dry
weather, and crews are being kept en-
| ployed upon them almost constantly so
that they may not get bad. 1t is expect
! ed that these two detours as laid out at
! the present time. will be in operation
for about one month more.
! Between Dunstan and Portland where
a new concrete road is being constructed
! on the Portsmouth and Portland high
way, the work is in progress between the
Nonesuch river in Scarboro and Port
land. This will be completed in about
one month, after which traffic will be
sent out over the new highway for the
several miles then finished, and then de-
toured by much shorter and better
route into Dunstan. This latter detour
Will he maintained for the remainder Of
the summer.
Between Portland and Brunswick work
is progressing very favorably and long
stretches Of the new highway are now
open to traffic. 1t is expected that the
whole Of this . miles OF splendid btu
ninous macadam highway will be COM
peted about the first of August. At the
present time there are two detour;
around sections of this work, one just
west Of Yarmouth and the other between
Freeport and Brunswick.
There is small job going on at Bridg-
ton on the Portland and White Mountain
highway, that OF re-sarfacing the main
street of BriGgton. The contractor has a
fair start on this work and it is expected
VIII complete it in about a month.
AT Poland and al oxford, on the Po-
land Spring and Bethel highway, the
work is well under way on each job, sur
facing having begun. 1t will take about
two months TO finish up each one OF
these JOS. Arrangements have been
made by the Maine Automobile Associa-
ton to have detours around this work
properly signed.
The road through Monmouth and Win
throp on the Lewiston and Augusta high-
wa, is nearing completion. 1t is not
necessary to make any detours over any
part of the work and both of these iois
10 Il,
July /.
The work i'll Strong on the Pennington
and Kangelc: highway is completed, and
the Pennington JOB Will be finished soon
after July /.
The Norridgowoci work on the Nor
ridgewocl, and Madison highway Will
run on for about another month
In Manchester, on the Winthrop and
Augusta highway, the sub-srade is well
started the culverts are nearly ali in but
surfacing is not yet begun. The job will
probably not be Completed until the mid
die or end Of September. The easterly
half OF this road that is, between Man
chester Forks ana Augusta. is all that is
torn UP now, and there are two good de-
tours around this work.
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in. on the Fairfield road on the Water
vile and Skowhegan highway, and has
started sub-Crading.
/ The only work running between New
port and Eangor is repairing some of the
cid St2te-aid sections in E,tna These are
being made to conform to the new state
highway recently completed there.
4 1t is probable that construction will
start in Hermon on the Newport and Ban
gor highway next month taking out
some bad pieces of ledge and grading up
Z some low places with the material taken
cut.
The work in Houlton and New Liner
, lex on the Aroostook county trunk line
will he completed inside of 80 days.
! Between Pressure Isle and Caribou on
the Aroostook county trunk line. there
are two large forces working; one in each
! town, and it is expected that this work
will be completed by the first of Septem-
| Der.
The State highway at Northport on
the Rockland and Belfast highway will
| probably be completed by the Goth of
| July. The only part of this road now I'M
| der construction is that portion between
! the Northpcrt postoffice and Browns
! Corner Traffic between these points
| should keep to the shore road through
! the campground.
| At Edmunds, on the washington coun-
| ty trunk line, rain has interfered with
| the progress of the work ever since the
| contractor started, and no part of the
sub-grade which has been opened, has
yet been finished.
| Operations began this week in Dedham
on the Bangor and Bar Harbor highway
where the Commission plans to widen,
straighten and thoroughly to improve all
the dangerous sections of road between
Bangor and Ellsworth.
Preparations are in hand for starting
work on other sections of the same road
between Bangor and Ellsworth and II Is