The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-13
Road improvements PernIexino

NOdA lHlpl OVCIllCUtS L STDlSXl0g
! When the Board of Freeholders me
' on Wednesday it was found that tn
J subject of improving the roads of tn
~ county was going to be serious STUN
5 bling block in the days proceedings
! Several contractors were on hand will
bids for the proposed sheet asphal
road from Medford through Evesbor
, to the Camden line. A resolution wa
, presented and adopted that no bids b.
received on this work. The reason
given for this action was that there is
shortage of funds. But it seems ther,
f was something else behind the move
When the asphalt programme was out
lined by engineer Logan at the first o
the year it was provided that the Ewes
ham, Medford road was to be improved
this year and that the work was to bt
continued to Vincentown next year
The people who were back of the latter
improvement thought that the work
ought to be done this year, but this did
not suit everybody so there was clash
which resulted in the adoption of the
resolution referred to, and the bidders
present were compelled to keep their
papers in their pockets
1t was then thought that it might be
a good plan not to build any more new
roads with the exception of those
already provided for, and a resolution
to that effect was adopted.
This resolution was deemed unfair
| by many as it put out of consideration
number of Improvements that were
absolutely necessary, one of which was
the road from Vincentown to Earl's
Corner.
Mr.. Smith, of the road committee,
supported the resolution on the ground
that funds would not be available for
new work and he thought it would be
much better to take care of the roads
that are in urgent need of improving
than to build more that would event.
ually become neglected and would cost
considerable to put in proper order. He
recited the fact that the county is not
in possession Of SIT, 900 with which to
build the Vincentown-E arl's Corner
road, and he thought that Vincentown
had had its share of public improve
ment appropriation already. Mr.. Smith
is very much interested in having a
road built from Burlington to Florence,
but he said his support of the resolu-
ton would eliminate all IDEA OF having
any such work done. The first clash
that ever came up on these two roads
was when director Joyce and Mr..
Smith were working hard for their own
propositions and as one could not go
through the other was knocked out.
The result of Wednesdays work was
that all new roads are knocked out for
the present, but there is said to be
another story back of all this.
There had been calls for bids on re-
surfacing the Burlington Columbus
road, but nothing was offered as the
matter is under consideration in the
courts by action Of Justice Kalisch who
granted rule to show cause why the
contract should not be awarded to Ross
& Whelan. This firm was the only
bidder when the matter was first up
and on advice of the encouragement
the bid was rejected because one bid
der did not constitute competitive
bids. "..Under the circumstances solicit
or Peacock thought action at this
time would not be proper
Mr.. Barrett said there did not seem
to be anything else to do but await the
further action of the court but he criti-
cised holding up Of work by the courts
when the same body had been finding
fault with the freeholders for delaying
such work.
In order to improve the roads of the
county which are sadly in need of at
tention and to build some that are con
templated it will be necessary to have
a bond issue Solicitor Peacock said
that the extent to which the Board
could go would be 100000 and when
the question was raised whether there
would be anybody willing to take that
amount Mr.. Peacock said he knew of
one firm that would take the entire
issue
All bids received and other matters
referring to the roads were referred to
the road committee who will report at
an adjourned meeting on Thursday. |
The State Highway Commission sent
a communication in which it express
ed a willingness to bear half the ex-
pense of improving the Browns Mills
Lakehurst road if the county will take
the road and keep it in repair in the
future. The communication also |
stated that the commission would con-
sent to a survey of the state highway |
from Florence station to Burlington |
and of the road from Tabernacle to In
dian Mills, but in the latter case it was
not to be understood that any promise
of state aid was given.
The failure to read bills for bridge |
work caused some discussion. AT the |
April meeting Mr.. Russ, chairman of
the finance committee, had stated that |
the county had over $4,000 of bridge |
money on hand and there did not APP
pear to be any reason for withholding
bridge bills at this time. Mr.. Russ eX-
planned that since the April meeting
an audit of the county's funds had
shown that an emergency note made
in 1917 was chargeable against this
years money and the balance that had
been reported was wiped out. 1t was
thought the matter could be straight
ened out before the next meeting.
The Delaware River Quarry and
C1rtr,roft4V, Ia1
the contract for supplying broken
stone for road repairs.
Bids we're received on road work as
follows:
River Road, Palmyra to Beverly
Union Paving Co., Phila. $685. 80
Joseph Burke Co., Plainfeld, n. j.,
176, 229.50
Union Paving Co., New York City,
1872, 117.40
VIM. P. Mcdonald Const. Co.,
Mount Vernon, N. Y, 154, 674.00
Eastern Paving Co., Phila., 1S1, 10000
Moorestown-M Mount Holly Road
Eastern Paving Co.. Phila., $3.50, 1860
Union Paving Co., Phila., I36, 24S SO
Harrops & Shannon Co, Garfield,
N. j., 1S3, 057.27
Jos. Burke, Plainfield, III, 1853. rs
VIM. P. Mcdonald Const. Co.,
Mount Vernon, N. Y, 1873, 1928. 90
Union Paving Co., N. Y, 1888. 20
Main Street, Moorestown
Union Paving Co., Phila., $142, 1852. 90
Jos. F Burke Co., Plainfield,
n. j., 172,916.73
Eastern Paving Co., Phila., 179, 1897 so
Union Paving Co., New York
City, 143, SOC. 80
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