The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-08
The State Highways.
Excellent Work Now In lrogress. The De
tours Available.

AioW JIG Mdine Otdte highway depart
ment by the Touring Bureau of the
Maine Automobile 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 de.
tours are available and the stretches for
the most part are comparatively short.
The two longest detours, as we'll as
the two poorest ones, are between the
village of Dunstan in Scarboro and Port
land, and between Freeport and Bruns-
wick. These, however, are both very
good in dry weather, and crews are be-
ing kept employed upon them almost
constantly so that they may not get bad.
1t is expected that these two detours as
laid out at the present time, will be in
operation for about one more month.
Between Dunstan and Portland, where
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
Portland. 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
detoured by much shorter and better
route into Dunstan. This latter detour
will be 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 rs miles of splendid blum
nous .macadam highway will be COM
pleted about the first of August At the
present time there are two detours
around sections of this work, one lust
west of Yarmouth and the other be-
tween Freeport and Brunswick.
There is small job going on at Bridg-
ton on the Portland and White Noun
tains highway, that of re-surfacing the
main street of Bridgton. The contrac-
| tor has fair start on this work and it is
expected will complete it in about
month.
At Poland and at Oxford, on the Po-
land Spring and Bethel highway, the
work is well under way on each Job,
surfacing having begun. 1t will take
about two months to finish up each one
of these jobs. Arrangements have been
made by the Maine Automobile Associ-
ton to have detours around this work
properly signed.
The road through Monmouth and
Winthrop, on the Lewiston and Augusta
highway, is nearing completion and is
not necessary to make any detours over
any part of the work and both of these
jobs should be finished Immediately after
July LIST.
The work in Strong on the Farming
ton and Rangeley highway, is complet-
ed, and the Pennington job will be fin
ished soon after July 1st.
The Norridgewock work on the Nor
ridgewock and Madison highway, will
run on for about another month.
In Manchester, on the Winthrop and
Augusta highway, the subgrade is we'll
started; the culverts are nearly all in
but surfacing IS not yet begun. This
job will probably not be completed until
the middle or end of September. The
easterly half of this road, that is be-
tween Manchester Forks and Augusta,
is all that is torn up now and there are
| two good detours around this work
The contractor has the culverts nearly
in on the Fairfield road, on the Water
vile and Skowhegan highway, and has
started subgrading.
The only work running between New
port and Bangor is repairing some of the
old State aid sections in Etna. These
are being made to conform to the new
State highway recently completed there.
1t is probable that construction will
start in Hermon, on the Newport and
Bangor highway, this month, taking out
some bad pieces of ledge and grading up
some low places with the material taken
out.
The work in Houlton and New Linz
erick, on the Aroostook County trunk
line, will be completed inside of 80 days.
Between Presque 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
September.
The State highway at Northport, on
the Rockland and Belfast highway, will
probably be completed by the 10th of
July. The only part of this road now
under construction is that portion be-
tween the Northport Post Office and
Browns Corner. Traffic between these
points should keep to the ''shore road"
through the camp ground.
At Edmunds, on the Washington Coun-
ty trunk line, rain has interfered with
contractor started and no part of the
sub-grade which has been opened, has
yet been finished.
Operations began last week in Ded-
ham, 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 ard Ellsworth.
Preparations are in hand for starting
work on other sections of the same road
between Bangor and Ellsworth, and it is
probable that work will start in Holden
within 10 days. In Ellsworth good
many bad lodges will be taken out, and
it is expected to advertise this work for
bids within week.
The WORK in Warren on the Bath and
Rockland highway, which was started
last fall, will probably not be completed
much before the first of August. I'm
mediately upon it's completion a section
OF about a mile and quarter IN Thomas
ton, on the same highway, will be under
taken.
Work is progressing we'll on the Sec
ton Of State highway now being built in
Bath, and this should be completed by
the goth of July.
The work on the two clay hills in Pros
pect on the Belfast and Bangor highway,
which is progressing well, should be done
in about two weeks.
The work of signing all Of the detours
around State highway construction in