Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-19
RECORD BROKEN
| ON ROAD WORK
State Highway Department to
Get One Hundred and
Six Miles at Once

Bids have just been asked by the
! State Highway Department for con-
struction of the largest amount o.
! road ever presented at one time in
the United States, if anywhere else
in opinion of officials of the State
be opened on July for 106.96 miles.
! The department has let contracts for
over 500 miles and has bids either
under consideration or pending for
close to 100 more with prospects
that by the end of July half a thou
sand miles will be under contract,
all on State main highway routes.
In addition thousands of additional
feet are being built by counties.
In the twenty-five projects to be
let are important parts of the Will
liam Penn highway, the Lackawan-
ma trail and western roads.
The longest strip of highway for
which construction is planned ana
for which bids will be opened July
3, is that section of the Lackawan-
ma trail which lies in Clark's Sum
NIT, GlenbuRn, Dalton and LaPlume
boroughs and Abingdon, Clinton and
Nicholson townships, in Wyoming
tai length of this construction is H.
063 feet. This is approximately 13 b
miles and is record breaker for
pennsylvania, insofar as continuous
construction is concerned. The
Lackawana trail is an important
northeastern Pennsylvania thor
oughfare leading from Scranton to
Binghamton, N. Y.
Another important piece of con-
CT fnfi icy hot ~, 49, lit
Westm oreland county, on the Will
liam Penn highway, where 32,047
feet of reinforced concrete and hill
side brick are planned to connect
BlairsNille and New Alexandria.
There are twenty-five projects in
the letting of July s. In Bradford
county almost nine miles of road are
planned from Towanda north to-
ward Waverly. In Bucks county
concrete road is to be put down
north and south of Plumsteadville
on the Easton- -Doylestown- Philadel-
phia road. A very important thor
oughfare is that between Slippery
Rock and Butler, on the road north
from Pittsburgh, where the program
calls for about eight miles of con-
crete. There are two projects in
Clearfield county-one connecting
Clearfield and Curwensville and the
other extending from Dubois to-
ward Reynoldsville. Construction is
planned from Osceola, Clearfield
county, south over two miles into
Centre county. In Delaware county
over four miles of road are to be
built north from chester. In Fay
cite county about six miles of con-
crete are planned from point
north of Smithfield to the West
Virginia line, on the main road
south from Uniontown. Another
six-mile strip is that from Stating
ton south toward Allentown, in Lee
high county. A second Lehigh coun-
ty job is that calling for three miles
of concrete from Allentown south
toward Emaus. Four miles of con-
crete are planned for Luzerne coun-
ty in the vicinity of Harvey's Lake.
There are three Somerset county
projects. One is from Salisbury to
the Maryland line another meahs
seven miles of concrete between Ber-
lin and Garrett the third calls for
six miles of concrete from Jenner-
town north toward Johnstown. In
York county it is proposed to con-
struct six miles of concrete from
York to a point south of Dallas
town, on the road to Baltimore.