Milford chronicle., 1919-05-16
HALF A MILLION
OF ROAD BONDS
SUSSEX COUNTY HIGHWAY COMMISSION
SELLS SERIES FOR S95.l3l FOR
EACH SlOO OF THE ISSUE.
FTFTY-EICHT MILES OF ROAD
PLAN TO MAKING OF GOOD HIGHWAYS
OVER THE COUNTY WHICH MAY BE
BUILT WITH BASE OF STAG.

A meeting of the County Highway
was held in Georgetown
on Tuesday It consists of the three
of the Levy Court-William
e. Valiant, Frank W. Holloway and
William H. BOOkhammer; Governor
John C. Townsend, Jr., former State
Senators Oliver A. Newton of Bridge
Vile and Charles W. Mitchell of Mis-
sion. Bids for the sale of the S5OO,OOO
bonds for the permanent Improvement
of fifty-eight miles of roads in this
county With nthe next year were
opened.
The successful bidders were Laird
& Co. of Wilmington, and Harris
Forbes Company of New York, who
took up the entire issue jointly, paying
S95.131 for each s10O of the issue.
The bonds will bear ~ per cent in
terest annually, commencing July 1.
The following routes to be improv-
ed have been decided upon by the
Commission: Laurel, east towards
loves Cross Roads, six miles; Blades
to Concord, three miles; Bridgeville
towards Georgetown, six miles Green
wood, east, four miles, Georgetown,
west, towards Cokesbury, five miles;
Georgetown to Harbeson, five miles;
Millsboro to Mission, six miles; Selby-
Vile towards Millville, eight miles;
Georgetown towards Laurel, four
miles; Millsboro, east, four miles; Ell
lendale, west, four miles; Milford
towards Shawnee, three miles.
Construction within the next few
weeks will only be started on three Of
the routes, which will possibly be the
route from Georgetown towards Har-
beson, Georgetown towards Laurel
and Georgetown towards Bridgeville.
Ter on other stretches will be start
/ on the work.
There will be a meeting of the Com
mission next week, at which it will
be definitely decided just what routes
from Georgetown have been surveyed
and as soon as bids for the work are
received and the contracts awarded
it will be but short time before con-
struction will start.
The routes from Laurel to loves
X-ROads and also the stretch from
Selbyville towards Millville will no
doubt be the next stretches where
construction work will start because
few months ago preliminary surveys
were made. The idea, it is said, is to
build the stretches radiating from
Georgetown, and as the surveys on
the other lines are completed to award
contracts. 1t may be that the Com
mission will award the contract to
one company to build the twelve
routes, comprising fifty-eight miles.
Nothing definite has been worked out
along this line and the exact plans
will not be made known until after
the meeting on Tuesday Of next week.
At that time it is believed plans and
specifications will be arranged and as
soon as possible arrangements made
for the advertising ror bids.
Already several of the big road
builders in the eastern part of the
country are said to be interested in
the permanent road program for this
county, and there is a likelihood of a
large number of concerns bidding on
the work State Highway Engineer
Charles M. Upham and County Engin-
eer w. Z. Hawkins will be present at
the meeting on TuesGay and go into
the different phases of the contem-
plated work with the Commission and
dl Ludl NAllC lAAE AAelLuA VI bAAC AloN0A AeAA
will be talked over and decided upon.
With the limited amount of money
and the mileage desired, there is a
likelihood that Stag will be decided
upon for the base with a bitulithic or
tar top dressing. It is figured that it
will be impossible to construct the
county roads out of concrete because
Of the high cost for construction work
of this character.
The different routes as laid out by
the Commission are meeting with the
approval of the people in all sections
of the country except the Selbyville to
Millyille route, where there is little
contention between the people of Days
boro and Frankford, who think that
the route should have been extended
through their sections instead of from
Selbyville to Milliville. The Commits
sion, however, found that it was i'm
possible to satisfy all three Of the
communities at this time and there
fore picked the most logical route
which would prove of the most benefit
to the southern section of the county
and would thereby benefit the most
people.