The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-04-21
BIDS FOR ROAD OPENED.
W. ID. Mayfield Submits Lowest Bid
for Construction Work.

| Last Friday at noon bids for the
| construction of the portion of the
Charleston-Augusta highway between
| Denmark and the county line Of
| Barnwell were opened at the office
of the county board of commission
ers at the court house. There were
| five bids for the construction work,
and it was found that the lowest bid
| had been offered by W. D. Mayfeld,
| of Lees, the amount of whose bid is
| SIS, 5,464.30. The contract will prob
ably be awarded to Mr.. Mayfeld, if
| his bid receives the approval of the
state highway department, in whose
hands the matter now rests. The
right is reserved to reject any or all
bids.
The construction work involved in
the contract calls for the building of
4242 miles of highway, which will
carry the road from the Barnwell-
Bamberg county line to the corporate
| limits of Denmark The bids of the
other contractors bidding on the work
ranged. from around $4,000 to $685.
900. The bids submitted were propo-
sitions from H. B. Hoffendeitzel &
| Co., Atlanta: Thomas E. Hook, New
Brookland; L. P. Mcmillan and E..
| W. Watson, Bamberg; Smoak & Reid,
Walterboro, and w. D. Mayfeld, Lees.
Messrs Smoak & Reid, of Walter
boro, submitted the second lowest
bid for the construction work.
AS soon as the final contract award
is made, and proper bond is arranged,
| it is expected that work will be start
ed. The road will be Strengthened
out and will be practically new
route most of the way.
AS previously stated in The Her.
| ald,. it is believed that an equitable
arrangement will be made whereby
| the road will be built through the
corporate limits of Denmark, a dis
tance of nearly or quite two miles.
| AS this involves an expenditure, at
| the rate estimated on the remainder
of the road, of approximately S4,-
| 900 a mile, Denmark does not feel
equal to the OCCASION Federal aid
can be secured for Denmark's por-
ton, if the remainder can be raised.
The road from Denmark to Bam-
berg will be constructed by the coun-
ty chain gang. This road is already
! in fairly good shape. A good road
bed has already been built, and very
little grading is necessary, and for
| this reason it is believed that the
chain gang can build this link more
economically than if it is let to a
| contractor.
With the link from Denmark to the
county line, the Denmark corporate
limits link and the Denmark-Bam-
berg link completed, about half OF
the road through the Bamberg county
limits will have been finished. 1t is
contemplated that the remainder of
the road to the Orangeburg line near
Branchville will be completed next
year. Half of the cost Of the high
| way through the county will be paid
by the government through federal
road aid.
This present contract will be the
second work constructed in this coun-
ty with federal aid. The completion
last year of the county link of the
Colum mbia-Savannah highway marked
the first work of the kind Instituted
in Bamberg county. It is contemplate
ed that federal road aid will be car
ried forward progressively as rapid
ly as possible. The county utlllzes
each year all of the motor vehicle tax,
amounting to several thousand dol
lars annually, in this manner, which
sum is supplemented by other avail
able funds.