The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-12-12
REPAIRING THE ROADS
Engineer Walker Will For a Time Be
Busy on Maintenance
Operations

j. T.. Walker, County Highway
Engineer, has the maintenance work
on the roads well under way. In view
Of the fact that the road funds are
limited Mr.. Walker will stop all con-
struction work and devote the entire
time of the five road crews to main
tenance. This or course does not ef-
feet the state roads.
Superintendent Gardeners crew has
completed the laying of the lime rock
on the Citra- Orange Lake road and
this crew will now shape this road
and clean up the right of way. The
crew will then" be moved, according
to Engineer Walker, to the Citra- Or
ange Springs road. Superintendent
Clark's crew is at work on the Bitch
ton and Martel roads. The Martel
| is being scraped and on the Blitchton
road the right of way is being made
| wider. AS soon as this crew COM
pletes its present task it will widen the
right of way on the road from Martel
to Romeo. These roads are being
widened, among other reasons, so that
they can be worked with a machine
ard thus maintain more economical
| IL. Superintedent Procter's crew is
widening the grades on the bad hills
OF the state road number two between
Ocala and Belleview. At present these
hills are dangerous because of very
narrow wearing surface which drops
off into bad bitches on the other side.
As soon as the right of ways have
been widened on these hills, Engineer
Walker proposes to widen the wearing
surfaces to sixteen feet. Superinten-
dent Jones crew within the next few
days will start patching state road
number two from the city limits to
the Seaboard Air Line railroad about
four miles out. AS soon as the work
on state road number two is complet-
led, Superintendent Procter's crew will
be transferred to Orange avenue and
Superintendent Jones' crew will be
given the task of patching the roads
around Ocala. Superintendent Math-
ew's crew is repairing some bad places
on the hills on the Williston road west
of Pennington. When this work is
completed the crew will be transper-
red to the Lowell Fairfield road. Next
Monday the county engineer expects
to place six team outfit on the Belle.
view-Summerfeld highway which i:
a part of state road number 124. A
convict crew is at work on this stretch
of highway.
Engineer Walker asks that a cor.
rection is made in regard to the con.
struction of the West Anthony road
He states that this road is being con
lstructed under the supervision of Mr.
Lee Priest. AS soon as this road ha:
Preached point where it will be prac
tical to stop construction will be halt
ed. Mr.. Walker explains that this be
comes necessary because of limitet
road funds available and because o.
his desire to spend the available funds
for maintenance rather than for new
contruction.
The stopping of contraction on tht
road does not, of course, include tn,
construction work on state road mum
Der two and five, nor on state aid roat
number 124. These are state project
and not county projects and are bein,
built, in the case of state road mum
bers two and five, by bond issue mon
ey, and in the case Of state aid roa'
number 124, with automobile money.