The Penn's Grove record., 1921-07-29
COUNTY FREEHOLDERS
Two Contracts Given For Con-
crete Road At Special Meeting

business transacted at the special
meeting OF the Board Of Freeholders
which was held At noon Wednesday,
One Of the contracts was for approx
lmately four miles Of the Woodstown-
Salem road which is q portion OF sec
ton I, route 8, Of the state Highway
system. The other contract was for
the additional piece Of the first section
Of the IennsTlIle-Saiem road TO make
all Of the work to be done in concrete
on that read this summer.
The Noodstown-Sal road is 10 be
built under the Reimbursement Act,
by which the County furnishes the
funds TO meet the cost, which will be
paid back by the State Highway De
partment in 1922 In order to1 1neet
this cost the treehoIders at the meet
ing on Wednesday authorized a tenn
porary bond issue to the amount Of
S1S0,O00. Notes of the County TO be
known as temporary loan notes,
viii be issued for the aforesaid sum
to bear interest at the rate of SIX per
cent, to be paid within five years from
the completion Of the construction Of
the road. The bond issue is actually
collateral for the Temporary notes.
The actual cost of construction of the
road under he Act is the amount of
the interest due on the notes and the
cost Of surveys and supervision of the
work by the County Engineers de-
paTtment.
The Road Bids
The Road Committee reported sep
arately on the opening of the bid for
section 7 of route 6, of the State High
way system, known as the Woods
tovn-Salem road.
There were seven bids for the
Woodstown-Sa road as follows:
Peconco Engineering & Con
struction Corp, n. Y. ----.- 9774fc
John H. Kelley Contract
ing Co., Chicago ..-...-.....-..-,-.--- 95.44fe
Jos. F. Burke, Plainfeld .--.-102.55fc
o. G. Julian Engineering
ing Co., n. y. ,.-..............,------ 96.00fc
Michael Staub, Swedesboro, 82.7fc
Ralph Sangiovanni, Newark, $1,000,
Sutton & Corson, Ocean
City JZ.o0@c
The County Engineers estimate Of
the cost Of the road was $2O1 ,496.3o
The bid of Michael Staub At 82.7sc
amounts to S166.637.44. He was the
lowest bidder and the committee rec
commended awarding the contract to
him. They also recommended an ap-
preparation of Sl80,000 for the pur-
pose of meeting the cost Of construc-
ton Of this road which Is a section Of
four miles. The Engineer estimated
that the total cost would not exceed
S170,000.00
The recomnendatIos were accepted
and the resolutions awarding the con-
tract and providing the appropriation
were adopted.
The total amounts of the other bid
+ ders follow: PeconO Company, $780,,
952.48; Kelley Contracting Co., S192,-
3O8.O7; Jos. F. Burke, S206, ,634.46;
i 0. G. Julian Co., S193,43645; Sanglo-
vanni, S187 1886; Sutton & Corson,
/ S187,089.31.
There was only one bid presented
for the contract for the Pennsville-
f Salem road and this was from Everton
A. Corson, of Ocean City, who has the
contract for the other TWO sections Of
the same road now in course of con-
struction. His bid was S6,749.85, and
the recommendation to accept It was
adopted by the Board,
The cost of this work is included in
the appropriation made for the con-
struction of Pennsville-Sale road,
first section.
This contract is for a short piece Of
the road not included in the original
contract but which it is very good
business to have built while the con-
tractor has his machinery and men on
the ground. To have done this sec
ton separately another year would
have cost very much more.
The County Financially Sound
In connection with the adoption OF
the resolution authorizing the proper
officers to make the necessary ar
rangements for the bond issue, the
County Engineer made a statement OF
the financial condition Of the County
1t was shown that at the close Of busl-
ness this year, when all taxes have
been received. the net bonded indebt-
edness of the County will be less than
I $4,000. This information came as a
very pleasant surprise to the members
and will no doubt be highly illUmln-
ating to those taxpayers who have
been aboring under the impression
that the debt of the County was pill
ing up. In comparison with the othel
counties of the State there is not one
that can make the same showing IN
respect to bonded Indebtedness and
at the same time amount Of improved
roads and conditions of old ones, ano
also good condition of bridges and al
other public property.
Motor Vehicle Funds For County
County Engineer Keasbey presented
a communication from the secretary
of the State Highway Commission
which announced that 1885, of the
motor vehicle funds available for al
Iotment had been allotted to Salem
County. 1t is estimated that this per
centage will yield to the Couny $67,
10000. This will be $4,000 more thar
was received for this year and S21Ol
less than was allotted to the Count!
in 1920. According to the Act of the
Legislature governing sch matter:
the County will double this sum fOl
road purposes. From the S135,S0I
I fins derived there will have TO be ap.