Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-11-13
MARION COUNTY
ROAD BUILDING
PLANS OUTLINED
Continued From Page one.)

road to Canal Bank road, concrete, three
miles, contract price SILL S5.
Thirtieth street road, from Emerson
avenue to Baltimore, brick, three miles,
$154 900.
Myer road, from Thirtieth street to Six
teenth street, asphalt, contract price,
$79, 800.
Rockville road, from the National road
to the Lynhurst road, concrete, contract
price $66.435.
Southeastern avenue. from English ave
nue. to the Belt railroad, asphalt, includ-
ing bridge, contract price SGT 500.
Sherman drive, from English avenue to
Pleasant run, asphalt, contract price
$4,000
AllisonvilIe road, from Slxty-Second
street to Allisonville, concrete, $1Oo,SOO-
English avenue, from Grace street to
the Brookville road, asphalt, contract
shelbyviiio road, from shelbyyille to
Thompson road, three miles, concrete
S1O6, 245.
The above roads are now in various
stages Of improvement and work is be-
ing pushed as fast as possible.
NEW ROADS
COMPLETED.
Surveyor Griffith announces that WORK
has been completed this year on the
following roads:
Ravmond street from Keystone avenue
70 state street, brick, contract price,
S19114.
twenty Fifth street, from Dearborn to
the Belt railroad brick, contract price,
! s2353s.
John W. Beahrmann road or the LIB
ertv nike in Warren township, concrete,
contract Drice 500, $50.
keystone avenue, from Allisonville to
| Sixty Fifth street, concrete, including
bridges, contract price, $4,000.
The W. H. Roberts road or Keystone
avenue, from Thirty Eighth street to the
| Miliersville road, concrete, contract price,
$3S. PAP.
The Haverstick road. from Fifty
Eighth street, Bellefontaine and West
/ field pike through Broad Ripple, nearly
comp leted, concrete, contract price, $ll5,-
/ $50.
West Thirty Eighth street, from the
1 Myer road to Lafayette pike, gravel, con-
| tract price. $4,000.
| Emerson avenue. from Michigan to
Tenth street, brick, contract price, $685.
/ s29.
Northwestern avenue. from Thirty
/ Sixth street to Fifty Fourth street, con-
l crete, pAlEts Sl- isoOO.
! Wachstetta road, on line between Wash
/ ington and Pike townships, two miles.
/ gravel, contract price, S2s,5O0.
| Allisonville road, from Keystone avenue
to Sixty Second street, contract price.
! S94, 424
Orchard avenue. concrete, contract
! price $40, 400
/ Southeastern or Michigan road, from
I Emerson to Five Points, concrete, con-
/ tract price 1854
! Charlottesville road, from Indiana ave
nue. to Main street at Speedway City,
thirty feet wide, concrete, contract price
I $1T3.53T.
Brookville road, from Sherman DIVE
/ to Hawthorne stop. three miles asphalt
contract price $138.400.
/ = According to Mr.. Griffith the above
named streets represents thirty-thre
I and q half miles of improved highways.
FORTY-FIyE BRIDGES
BUILT THIS YEAR.
There has been built also this year
forty FIVE bridges at an approximate cost
/ Of $3.50, 000.
While the improvement program for
next year is being discussed. committee
/ OF representatives of the Portland Ce-
ment Association, the Indiana Gravel and
Sand Producers Association. County Sur
veyor Griffith and Thomas w KELLY
appointed by the county commissioners,
is attempting to agree on new specifica :
tons which will permit the use Of Ma
rion County gravel and sand on ali road
improvement Jobs The idea is to change
contents of the mixture so as to have
the same strength of concrete, Mr.. Kelly
explains. The committee is preparing
report which Will be submitted soon for
the consideration of the county commits