The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-28

More than forty bids for the work will
 be submitted, according to the estimate
 of $. R. Batson. county highway engineer,
 lask night There will be several con tractors from New York, as well as a
 number from various southern states bid-
 ding on various parts of the work
 Bids opened today will he for the first
 of the permanent highways to be cop- structed by the Board of Revenue with the proceeds of the s5.0OOcOo county road bond issue which was voted short time ago. The Board of Revenue recently sold the first s2,OOO0OO worth of the bonds to finance the work to be let as soon as the bids received today can be tabulated and passed upon by the board. Work on the roads to be let at this time will be started as soon after May h as all of the formalities in connection with the letting of the contracts can be
 completed.
 Nine main highways into Birmingham will be paved at this time. There Will be constructed a total or forty-two miles of permanently paved roads at cost of $l ,540000 in approximate figures. These roads will be of concrete with bitunil- nous wearing surface, concrete or q brick surface.
 TYPE OF PAVING The Board of Revenue has asked for bids on this work, specifying the use of concrete, sheet asphalt, bituiithic, brieh' rock asphalt and other standard pavmS
 materials. The type of paving to be put down will be decided upon in each case when the bids are in
 Two highways between Birmingham
 and Bessemer will be the most important items in the contracts to be let. Ihe north road, twelve miles long, will be paved at a cost of almost $50O,OO0. The south road, at a smaller cost. The Eighth | Avenue road to Ensley will be another highly important piece of work Fms road will cost approximately s16d000, and VIII divide the heavy traffic to Ensley, which now uses the Third Avenue road almost exclusively. Others of the nine highways on which permanent paving is to be done | are: The Mt Pinson road, the Jasper I highway. Avenue F, Ensley to Vivian 1 and Edgewater; Nineteenth Street road, 1 Ensley to the junction of the Docend and Mulga roads; the Leeds highway
 from Woodlawn to Irondale, and the CO
 lumbiana or Waterworks road. to the pumping station.
 | projects on which bids will be received by | the Board of Revenue today. In addl- l ton to the nine paving projects, there will he grading work on a number or other main roads which are to be con structed later with permanent paving. l Surveys on the roads have been in progress for weeks, and the work is being | rushed so that as soon as the contracts | have been let actual work can be com menced.
 TWENTY ONE PROJECTS | The twenty-one projects showing ths | estimated cost of each and the mileage | to be constructed are given below The nroiects numbered from one to eight, in- elusive. and project numbered twenty call 1 for permanent paving. The remainder call
 for grading work.
 l Project No. What is known as 1 North Bessemer road, beginning al l Dartmouth avenue and Thirty-secono street, via Bessemer courthouse, Huey
 Lane, Rutledge Springs and Fairfield distance approximately twelve miles cost. approximately s4S0,000. 1 Project No. 2-South Bessemer road 1 from city limits to Tuscaloosa avenue and Poplar street distance approXl' lnately two miles; cost, approximateiy l $50 000
 Project No 3-Mount Pinson road
 IngIenoox to Norwood boulevard, dis tance approximately 21a miles; cost, ap- rpoximately $100,000.
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