Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-21
O'NEIL ASKS FOR
MORE ROAD WORK
Program For This Fall the
Most Extensive Undertaken
by the Department

Highway Commissioner ]. Denny
, O'Neil IL advertising for bids for
the construction of 27.34 miles of
improved highways in thirteen diff
ferent counties. On October Q bids
will be opened for the construction
OF roads in Cambria. Washington.
Allegheny, Lehigh. Butler, Mont
gomery, Venango. Lackawanna and
Westmoreland counties and, on Oc-
tober 16, for construction in Arm
strong, Somerset, Center and Greene
counties.
The projects proposed for Lack
awanna, Westmoreland and Greene
counties are new but all of the 9TH
ers have been advertised previously.
the bids which were received hav-
ing been rejected because of exces-
sive prices.
The Mundays Corner road, in
ment 20,948 feet long and sixteen
feet wide, which is to be of Vitri-
fed block construction. For the con-
venience of bidders, this project has
been divided into two sections: The
first, located in East Taylor town
ship, is to be 9,S7S feet long, while
the second is in Jackson and East
Taylor townships and is to be H.
O70 feet in length. This entire pro-
ject is located on State Highway
Route So.
Again bids are being asked for the
improvement of that portion of the
Pittsburgh pike between Bridgeville
and Canonsburg, on State Highway
Route los. This stretch of roadway
is 36,170' feet long and the specif1-
cations call for reinforced concrete
and vitrified block construction. 1t
Is to be sixteen feet wide. OF this
proposed improvement, 1852 feet
are located in South Fayette town
ship, Allegheny county, and 1888
feet in Cecil and North Strabane
townships, Washington county.
Another Washington county high
way to be improved is located in
East Bethlehem township, connect
ing at Centerville Borough and eX-
tending to Fredericktown, along the
Monongahela river, for a distance
of $500 feet. The type of construc-
ton is to be reinforced concrete and
vitrified block. This is State-aid ap-
plication 1888 and is located on State
Highway Route 26S.
From Bethlehem to Allentown, in
Hanover township, Lehigh county,
it is proposed to improve a stretch
of roadway 1857 feet long. This
project is on State Highway Route
159 and is to be sixteen and twenty
feet wide, of reinforced concrete
construction.
a vitrified block pavement, six
teen feet wide and $500 feet in
length, is to be built in Clinton
township, Butler county, extending
from SaXonburg south toward the
Allegheny county line. This is q
State-aid project, being application
No. All.
Montgomery county extends through
Abingdon, Upper Moreland and Pp-
per Dublin townships for a distance
of 6,537 feet. This pavement is to
be sixteen feet wide and of rein
forced concrete type of construction.
This, too, is a State aid project,
being application 648.
In Nenango county, the proposed
improvement extends from OIL City
to Rouseville, in Cornplanter town
ship. This is a stretch of road T.
S57 feet long. 1t is to be of vitrified
block and is to be sixteen feet wide.
This is State-aid application 6S1.
The Lackawanna county project
is located in Moosic and Old Forge
boroughs and calls for 6,562 feet of
reinforced concrete construction, six
teen feet wide This proposed work
is covered by State-aid application
Nos. 442 and 487.
Another State-aid project is that
proposed for Westmoreland county,
which extends from Scottdale to-
wards Greensburg, in East Hunting
don township. This pavement is to
be of Vtrified block and the length
is 2,540 feet, with a width of six
teen feet. This work is covered by
State-aid application No. 324
The Ford City Kittanning road,
in Manor township. Armstrong coun-
ty, again is advertised. This project
calls for a pavement 1907 feet
long and sixteen feet wide, which is
to be of vitrified block construc-
ton. This is State-aid application
No. S97.
The work proposed for Somer-
set county is part of the project to
connect the Lincoln highway with
the National pike. 1t extends
through Somerset township, q dis
built of vitrified block. 1t is to be
sixteen feet wide. This improve
ment is covered by state-aid appli-
cation 739.
A proposed borough improve
ment is that planned for Bellefonte,
Center county, where a Ttrified
block pavement sixteen and twenty
feet wide and 2,454 feet long is to
be constructed.
The Greene county project con-
tinues the Improvement of State
highway route 26S from Waynes-
burg towards Rice's Landing, on the
Monongahela river, through Morgan
and Franklin townships. This road |
way is to be of vitrified block con- |
struction. 1t is 1903 feet long and |
10 tn he siNtnnn feet wi do