The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-17
Commissioner Does Excel
lent Job on Gull
ford Road
EXPENSE BETWEEN
$4,000 AND $4,000
Important Improvement Also Begun in
Elm Corners Section-New Drainage
System Needed Before Permanent
Work Is Done on Main Street.

Everybody who has occasion to travel
the road between Bratteboro and Gull
ford, over the section between the en-
trance to the Richardson slaughter house
property and the Guilford town line, gives
expression to sentiments of hearty approx
al of the plans of Road Commissioner A.
A. Wallace which have been carried out
in that section, where one of the finest
graveltopped state roads in this part of
the state has been laid out, with road
bed of q feet.
The cost of the new road will be be-
tween $4,000 and $1,000, half of which
will be borne by the state. This is about
double what the cost would have been
a year ago. Six teams, two auto trucks,
and large force of men have been en-
gagged the past seven weeks in blasting,
widening, filling, putting in eulverts, and
Strengthening the road for distance of
about a mile, and the work probably will
be finished this week
The widening and Strengthening opera
tions required large amount of blast
ing, the expense of this work being borne
air compressor power drill driven by
gasoline engine and manned by two men,
and the dynamite. However, the state
| law requires that all rock blasted away
| shall be disposed of by the town, and in
| this instance a greater part OF the rock
had to be drawn only short distance,
where 1t was used to fill at point on
1 the east side of the road, a few rods from
where the new road begins The largest
| fill was made at this point, the road be-
| ing carried 25 feet to the east. The lodges
| on the west of the road between the start
| ing point and the watering trough hav.
been blasted out and the road has been
| widened In some places on both sides
| so that it Is now possible to see nearly to
| the top of the hill beyond the watering
| trough. The sharp curve at the top of
the hill has been Strengthened somewhat.
Beyond this curve for some distance
comparatively little reeonstructive work
was necessary. At the brow of the hill
just before the Guilford line is reached
a ledge has been cut fro mthe west side
and some filling has been done on the east
side of the road. This leaves an unbroken
view from the foot of the hill this side of
Joel Flagg's, near the watering tub, to
the fat
The hills have been covered with a deep
coating of gravel from a bank in Guilford,
drawn by teams, but in order to get gray
ell suitable for the marshy sections it was
necessary to go to the Walker bank in
1 Dummerston, and these long hauls have
been made by the automobile truds.
Four cement culverts have been put in.
The two curves in the new highway
have been Banked, which leaves them
in better condition for automobiles, but
the rest of the road has been crowned
Four cement culverts have been put in
and substantial wooden ratings have been
placed wherever necessary to avoid the
possibility of accident The ratings will
be painted white. The New England Tel
ephone & Telegraph company has been
obliged to reset large number of poles
along the way
When the work of reconstructing the
highway was well underway it was seen
that the money then available-S 81 O0t
from the state, 81 900 from the town and
about $500 as Brattleboros percentage Of
returns from automobile licenses would