The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-26
COUNTY NOW BUILDING 5O
 MILES OF HIGHWAY
Contractors Busy Construct ing S425,000 Worth of Roads, EnsIey, WyIam,
 Mulga, EdgeWater

Approximately 50 miles of road are now being constructed in Jefferson county at total cost of s425,oOo, figures in the office of the county board of revenue show All the work is being done by contractors who employ a number of men and place several thousand dollars monthly into local channels of circulation.
 The most important of these roads is the Ensley- Mulga- -Edgewater- Vivian loop with an extension to Parkstown. An asphalt top on concrete top is being laid on this road. Work is being done by the Independent Paving company at cost of s22s,02O. This loop is about t2 miles long and serves one of the thickest populated areas in the coun- ty that is unincorporated.
 The Mulga Port of Birmingham road is being surfaced by A. c. Par son and company at a cost of $74,0o0. It IS about 12 miles in length.
 Other roads in process of con struetion are the Warrior Robbins road, 10 miles, work being done by c. P Parsons, at a cost of $16,000; Overton Loop road, five miles, B. F. Jones, contractor, cost. S40,000; Traf- ford Bradford road, six miles, con- tractor. J. M. Acton. cost s23,000. Trussville- County line road, five miles, contractor B. F. Jones, cost S1e,o0o.
 Built With Bond Money
 All of these roads are being built ~a a n4EA bond sale authorized by the people; S1t000,000 of the amount was used to pay off a temporary loan. The remainder of the other s1,000,000 will bo used in cfty-county paving already Llanned Six roads within the city limits are to be paved with the coun- ty paying 65 per cent and the city 35 per cent of the cost. Owins to the delay in selecting the exact route for these roads, contracts for their co struction have not been let, but fsz-expected that bids will be called for soon.
 City-County Program
 Roads to be paved by the city and county are the South Bessemer con nectfons one and one-half miles; Fairfield Fairview route, two and one-half miles; Birmingham Pratt City road, five miles: Vanderbilt or BoyIes roae and Gate City-Irondale road
 Besides the contract work which is done under the supervision of Claude E. Rogers, county engineer, the road forces of five convict camps are kept busy at all times repairing the old roads and keeping them in a good state of preservation, M. J. Wheeler, road superintendent, has charge of otod friIrl<q purchased recently for the work.
 One of the latest purchases of the county was a road roller. Bids were opened for the roller last week and a contract was made with Yancey Bros, as the lowest bidder for modern machine at cost of s5,400.
 Building Bridges Also
 Another action taken by the board of revenue recently in the line of highway work was sin reference to the construction of bridge across the Little Warrior river near Palos and Bessie to cost more than s60, 900. Engineer Rogers is now busy making a survey to learn the best location of the bridge. which when constructed will take the places of three fer ries that are now operated across the river.
 It Is expected that the state high way commission which meets in Bir- mingham today will authorize ad- vertising for bids for the construc- tion of a road from Bessemer to the Tuscaloosa county line. The commis- sion will also take up the proposi- ton of selecting new route along the old Louisville and Nashville right-of-way through Helena and Parkstown for the Montgomery highway. These two projects would mean more roads for this section.