The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-04-11
100000 TO
BE ESPENT THIS
YEAR ON ROADS
Estimate That Counties of State
Will Double Last Years
Expenditures
CONTRACT PRICES LOWER
Emmons County Lets Contract
For Road Work Connecting
With Burleigh Co.
PRICES LOWER

Road construction in North Daflota
for which federal aid is given will ap-
proximately cost $2,OO0,000 in 1921,
according to estimates of the state
highway commission. OF this amount
the government pays half, while the
counties pay practically all of the re-
naming 81 100000, the state furnish
ing some aid in engineering work.
The road work to be done during
the coming season will be about dou'
BILE the miles Of road constructed last
year, the highway commission enSIn-
GERS estimate. Prices on contracts al
ready let are from 20 to Az per cent
lower than in 1920.
Surveys have already been made by
the highway commission for as many
federal aid projects as there will be
federal aid for, it is stated. Some ap-
plications for federal aid made in the
future, however. may be granted by
reason OF failure Of counties to let
contracts for work for which surveys
have already been made.
Ernons-Sur!eigh Road.
Among the federal aid projects for
which contracts have been let in the
! last week are the following:
Project No. SIS, in Wells county
Building road ten miles north from
Hurdsfield. Contractors: road work,
Stevens Brothers, st. Paul; cnlverts,
Russell Grader Manufacturing Com
pany; reinforced concrete, A. J. Jack
son, of Jamestown.
P Project No. 92-Four mile stretch
from BARLOW, Eddy county. Road
work, James Yeaman, Devils Lake;
metal culverts, North Dakota Metal
Culvert Company; reinforced con-
crete,N. NJ. Nelson, Valley City.
Project No. l01.-Six mile stretch
west from Darlington. Contractors:
road work, Curren and Cowell, Valley
City; metal culverts, North Dakota
Metal Culvert Company; reinforced
concrete, N. w. Nelson, Valley City.
project NO. 103.-Four mile stretch
north from Barlow, Eddy county. Con-
tractors: road work, Henry Halvor-
son, Sheyenne; metal culverts, North
Dakota Metal Culvert Company; con-
crete, w. H. Carson Construction Co.,
New Rockford.
Project No. 119.-Five and one-half
stretch north of Linton connecting
! federal aid project. No. "a, completed
last fall. Contractors: Linton Bridge
and Construction Company and STAN
ley Brothers. st. Cloud, MINI.
Project No 91.-Eight and one-flfth
miles from Burleigh county line south.
Contractors: Linton Bridge and Con-
struction Company, and Stanley Bro
Tiers, st. Cloud, Mimi.
State Road 1925 Miles Long.
With the letting Of the contracts
for Stutsman county federal aid pro-
ject No. 56, which is 21-mile stretch
though Pingree, and Benson county
project No. 9S> 15-mile stretch at
Minnewaukan, both of which are ex.
pected to be advertised soon, there
will be a practically continuous state
highway from jamestown to Devils
Lake by way of Niles, a distance OF
about 125 miles.
The first federal project for which
a contract was let this spring was in
Pierce county for a stretch of 10 IL
miles, which connects federal aid pro-
iect No. 20 at the county line, be-
tween Pierce and Wells counties, and
extends north toward Rugby.