Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-27
MORE THAN HALF OF MILEAGE
90 FAR LET Is ON NORTH
IOWA PIKE.
cERRo eoRoo HEADS
ALL OTHER COUNTIES
Latest Contracts Awarded in o'erisn
County and Will Connect Towns OF
Sheldon, Sanborn and Hartley
Local Gravel May Lower Cost OF
Construction.
special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Mason City, March 27.--Counties
Of Iowa situated along the route OF
the North Iowa Pike continue to
lead all the rest of the state In the
matter OF permanent road improve
ments and II seems certain now that
these counties will be the first to
have their paving completed.
Unofficial reports from the office
Of the state highway commission AT
Ames indicatoe that contracts have
been let for about eighty miles oil
paving on the primary road system
of the state. Forty miles, or half OF
this total. is on the North Iowa Pike
and is located in Cero Gordo. Flayd
and O'Brien counties. Twelve more
miles of this is on the Jefferson
Highway in Cerro Gordo county and
connected with the North Iowa Pike
so that there remains only twenty
eight miles of paving for which con-
tracts have been let that is not on
the North Iowa Pike or in Cerro
Gordo county.
The last contracts were let on
about twenty-three miles Of paving
across O'Brien county connecting
the towns of Sheldon. Sanborn and
Hartley. The first nine miles OF this
from Sheldon east was awarded TO
the O'Rourk Construction Company
of Des Moines for a square yard unit
price Of $3.50. The middle section.
which is eight miles long. was award
ed to Charles Wagner. of the Capital
CITY Construction Company. Of Des
Moines. at a unit price of s4.32 a
square yard. The east five and a
half miles will be constructed by the
Johnson Construction Company. of
Spencer, Iowa, at a price Of 1894 a
yard.
Work in Western Iowa.
A new gravel pit has been opened
in O'I'rien county and tests of the
are now being made. If this
gravel can be used in the construc-
ton work it will lessen the unit cost
materially and give prices on the first
two jobs now listed at $40 and s4.32
which wifi probabl he less than -
yard.
Construction work on the three
O'Brien county projects as well as on
five miles in Floyd county and twelve
miles in Cerro Gordo county will be
started in April and every effort will
be made to complete the work before
cold weather next fall. All tf the
paving will be of reinforced con-
crete, construction.
Sioux, Palo Alto. Clay. Kossuth
and Hancock counties have all auth
orized paving projects at special
election. Clay and Palo Alto counties
are expected to DO some paving but
their projects at the present time are
said to include north and south pro-
jects. Little is being done in Sioux.
plans and specifications have been
completed on the North Iowa Pike
road in Hancock county while 1t is
likely that some action in regards to
plans may be taken soon in Kossuth
county.
II the forty miles Of paving in
Cerro Gordo Floyd and O'Brien is
completed this season the winter will
see fifty miles of the North Iowa Pike
paved, because twelve miles Of the
road in Mason City and Clear Lake
and between the two towns has AL
ready been completed. There is also
a possibility that contracts may be
let for an additional seven miles OF
paving in Floyd county this year.