The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1920-07-16
BONDS OF DISTRICT
ARE SOLD AT PAR
OLIVER co. GIVEN JOB
Damascus, Nilonia and Palarm Road
Bonds Sold and Construction Con-
tracts Given by Commissioners.

Contracts for a total of 54 miles of
hard-surfaced highways, together with
steel and concrete bridges and cul-
verts, to cost in the aggregate about
enc and one-quarter million dollars
were awarded today to the Oliver
Construction Company by the COM
missioners Of the Conway and Dam
ascus, Conway and Vilonia and Con-
way and Palarm road improvement.
districts of Fulkner county.
At the same time contracts were
made by the districts with NJ. W.
Elkins & Company and W. B. Wor-
then & Company of Little Rock for
the sale at par of a sufficient amount
Of bonds in each district to pay the
cost of constructing the highways.
The vote by which the contracts
We're let was unanimous in the case
of each district. Commissioners
present were as follows: Damascus
cistrict-W D. Cole, chairman. Tom
Davis, secretary, H. Robinson, Jo
Frauenthal and j. Frank Jones. vi
lonia district-Dr. j. B. Mum, chair
man, Opie Hartje, secretary, W. NJ
Harrell and William Simpson. Pa
iarm Wiley Mosley, chair
man, Frank Farris, secretary, H. B.
Ingram and Frank E. Robins.
The length of the roads to be con-
structed is - miles in the Damascus
district, IS miles in the Viona dis
trict and IA miles in the Palarm dis
trict. The Damascus road will begin
at the southwest corner of the Hen
Dirk College campus on Independence
street and run north through Cadron
Gap, across Beaver Fork and Cadron
bottoms, through Wooster and Bono
and thence to Damascus, to the line
between Faulkner and Van Buren,
counties. The Nilonia road will begin
at the terminus of the concrete street
paving on East Oak street and rum
almost due east through Beryl and
Nilonia to the White county line
The Palarm road will begin at the
south end of the public square onI
South Front street and, passing St
Joseph's Catholic church and the Con-
way compress, will run parallel to the
Missouri Pacific railroad to the bridge
over Palarm creek. which is the line
between Faulkner and Pulaski coun-
ties. In each district the old public
road will be very closely followed,
only slight deviations being made to
obtain a better route.
The highways in each district are
to be of uniform construction. InI
grading all sharp ascents will be re-
duced and low places filled, so that
grades will be easy throughout. All
large culverts will be built of con-
crete and the smaller culverts will bel
of galvanized corrugated iron pipe
with concrete headwalls, the hard
surfacing being of course laid over
the culverts. All bridges and tres
ties will be of steel framework, steel
and concrete piers and reinforced
floors, making the most permanent
type of construction known to en-
gineering. The hard-surfacing will
consist of nine inches of local crush
ed stone, to which will be applied one
and one-half gallons per square yard
Of asphalt by the penetration" meth
cd, as a binder All of the roads will
be II feet in width with the exception
of that portion of the Damascus road
from Wooster to Damascus. The cost
of construction through the Cadron
bottom was so great that it was de
cided to reduce the width of the road
north of Wooster to nine feet, as the