Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-15
CONTRACTS LET
FOR STATE ROADS
Fifty-Five Miles of Highway
to Be Built in Nine
Counties

Contracts for the construction of
approximately fifty-five miles of pri-
mary highways, located i'm nine coun-
ties. were awarded to-day by High
way Commissioner Lewis S. Sadler.
Within the last three weeks the State
Highway Department has awarded
contracts which, including the fifty
five miles awarded to-day total APP
proNimately one hundg.d and fifty
three miles.
Included in the awards to-day are
three sections of construction along
the William Penn Highway, in Berks
and Lebanon counties. The Union
Paving Company, of Philadelphia,
was awarded the contracts for put
ting down in the neighborhood of
twenty-one miles of bituminous mix
lures on Il prepared broken stone
base, this stone base to be prepared
by the State Highway Department.
The Donald Mcneil Company. of
Pittsburgh. was given the contract
for the construction of approximate
ly eight miles of bituminous sur
face course on a concrete foundation
on the section of State Highway
Route ~. extending from Allison
Park to the Butler county line. in
Allegheny county. This Improvement
is on the much travelled road between
Pittsburgh and Butler.
About three miles of construction
was placed under contract for the
Improvement of the Lincoln High
way, in Fulton county, extending
eastward from Saluvia. and will be
OF reinforced concrete, necessary at
this heavily travelled point.
The contract for the improvement
of State Highway Route 20. Spring
dale borough, Allegheny county. was
awarded to Booth and Finn, Ltd. of
Pittsburgh. This project is located
on the Pittsburgh to Freeport road.
over seven miles of road will be
built in Moscow and Dunmore bor-
oughs and Roaring Creek town
ships, Lackawanna county, on the
road leading southwark from ScraE-
ton to Stroudsburg.
Actual work on all of the projects
is to begin at the earliest possible
moment.
The contracts awarded today are
as follows:
Allegheny county, State Highway
Route. 40, Springdale Borough, 69lJ
feet of reinforced concrete: Booth
and Finn, Ltd, Pittsburgh, $90,563.
20.
Allegheny county, State Highway
Route ~, Hampton and Richland
townships, 1891 feet of bituminous
surface course on concrete foun-
dation: Donald Mcneil Company
Pittsburgh. S443.3O735
Bradford county, Route II. Mon
roe and Towanda townships. 1886
feet of bituminous surface course or
concrete foundation: r. II. Gill
Company. Binghamton, y. V. S146,-
440.92.
Fulton county. State Highway
Route 80. Licking Creek township
5000 feet of reinforced concrete;
Snyder and Phillips Company, Phila-
delphia, 31.30536.
Jefferson county, State Highway
Route 64. Rose and Union townships
20,720 feet of bituminous surface
course on concrete foundation and
Hillside vitrlfed brick: Dale Engi-
neering Company. Utica, n. Y, S205.
O4S.9S.
Pike county. Milford and Westfall
townships, State Highway Route s;
29.545 feet of bituminous surface
course on n concrete foundation: II.
b. Sproul Construction Company,
Peekskill, n. Y, $l99,S26.65.
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