Milford chronicle., 1917-10-05
IUPONT WOULD BUILD
20 MILES OF HIGHWAY
fers To Construct A Road From
Milford To Wilmington Over
Route And In Manner The
Commission Specifies.


de last week to the State Highway
lnmissiOn to build for the State at
own expense a modern highway
m Milford to Wilmington, was a
ject for favorable discussion on
sides and vas generally commend
lis offer, if accepted means that he
I'D build for the state in a manner
over a route the State Highway
omission shall prescribe, a road
would cost anywheer from ST.
900 to S2,000.000 without one cent
post to the state.
cnelal DUPONT offers to abandon
dupont Boulevard project from
aord northward and to build ap-
imatoly seventy miles of State
away from Milford to Wilmington,
{only provisO he attaches to his
lniiiccnt offer being that the State
/ away Commission shall first COM
the construction of the dupont
evard from the Appenzellar farm,
: 1t four miles south of Milford. to
ord. along the route as surveyed
according to the plans filed by
dupont corporation The dupont
evard has been built a distance
wenty miles from Selbyville to
b Of Georgetown and turned over
lie State, and work is now under !
from north of Georgetown toward |
Drd. The owner of the Appen- |
y farm refused to grant a right |
ay through his property, and agi- |
q over the attempt of the bOule-
corporation to condemn a path
pw pending in the Supreme Court
he United States. The boulevard
pratiOn also has acquired nearly
entire right of way from the Ap-
lsllar farm to Milford, so that the
l,ipal obstacle of obstruction to
bletion of the boulevard across
entire width of Sussex county
stance of 81 miles-is the Appen-
r farm.
lie State Highway Commission has
ority to condemn land for high
purposes. General DUPONT asks
of all that the highway Commits
complete the DUPONT Boulevard I
the Appenzellar farm to Milford, I
ccord with the original plan of
boulevard corporation, and then
to have constructed, as the h
road under its jurisdiction a Y
2 Highway from Milford to Will V
N ston. His formal offer reads: Il
H l case the Highway Department a
so agree, as its first work, to d
nue. the said highway from the v
lernly boundary of the said Ap- il
sllar farm to Wilmington, in the h
er hereinabOve described, | II
offer to pay the entire cost of Ii
gucting said highway, including o.
)st of all new rights of way that b
" be necessary to acquire, but r,
ding the cost of a new bridge,
e should be found necessary,
s. the Delaware and Chesapeake a.,
IL. The reason for excluding u
bridge is that under the Canal "
bany's charter, the company it, l
Us bound to build same. y,
is expressly understood that in III
said offers are accepted all de- il'
OF the continuation of the high III
from or near Milford to the city Ie
ilmingtOn. including route, width, d
leter of construction ETC., are to NJ
stermined by the State Highway VI
Ttment in accordance with the 81
treating it. M
ould this offer be accepted, | et
-ANLA NY AGolElldLlOn dS d ulEIl-
the State Highway Department IS
at my presence in this depart %
shall not embarrass any men, 50
the exercise of his independ- at
dgment IT
efnOr John G. Townsend. Jr., Oh
Marvel, Walter o. Hoffecker Ill
oseph E. Holland are the other
srs of the Highway Commission,
aey referred the offer of General
lt to Attorney General David J.
ardt for an opinion as to wheth- do
ne are any legal obstacles to To.
septance of the offer. we
Il on estimates for road con- m
ion recently submitted to the 7
Court. General DUPONT offers to mai
at his own personal expense, wa
e state, a highway that will cost Mr.
md figures two million dollars. on,
estimate is based on the con- fru
ion of an entire new road be- ei7
Wilmington and Milford. Is sba
usive Of what he has spent and Mr.,
nding on the dupont boule- of
Levy Court of New Castle ano
Recently awarded contracts for rias
ncOln Highway to be construct oua
Warrcnite on concrete base at ~, tur,
than $4,000 a mile for a high M
Eighteen feet wide. The bid for a.,
concrete road the same width eea
lomewhat under 100000 q mile stS;
distance from Milford to viii '''S
l)n BY road is 20 miles, so it can
.ured that if the State Highway
Iission accepts General duPont's
and specifies an entirely new II
IL wide concrete road from Pos
tngton to Milford, the cost of it and
I be about two million dollars. beer
is the amount General dupont Han
/ have to pay under such condi- JAM
and the State would receive hlm'
ighway as a gift. G,
Ter the law passed by the last demo
lature creating the State High Milf
Commission, it is provided that sold
shall be issued for road con- The
ton, the interest to be met and and
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