The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-20
NO ACTION TAKEN
ON FLOMATON ROAD
BY STATE BOARD
Contracts Are Let for Two Mil
lion Dollars of Paving at
Meeting Yesterday.
NO ACTION IS TAKEN
ON ESCAMBIA PROJECT
State Road Department Meets
Again Today to Consider
Bids for Bridge.
(speciaI TO The JournaD


for road construction aggregating ap-
proximately $4,000 900 were awarded
by the state road department this aft
ernoon as follows:
All of state road No. 1, between the
Columbia county line east to the brick
road ,42.78 miles, reinforced concrete
awarded to B. A. Inglis and @. F. Lyle,
Birmingham, Ala, for $685.
Project No. 13, Orange county, Ply
mouth to Mt. Dora, 8.59 miles, to w.
P. Mcdonald Construction company,
Lakeland, 9-inch compacted rock base,
S-inch asphalt for $23S, ,040.77,
In Putnam county, project No. 1s,
from Cisco to Volusia county line, 1913
miles, S-inch compacted base, 3-inch
bituminous macadam top, to John F.
Morgan Paving company, Miami, for
$455, ,S30.S4.
Project No. 33, in Alachua county,
from Burnets Lake to Gainesville, 1873
miles, s-inch compacted base, 3-inch
bituminous macadam top, to Barber
Forth, Warren, Ohio, $2S5,667S7.
The bids on the work in Volusia
county were rejected.
Other matters acted upon by the de-
partment today were as follows:
Brevard county - The department
passed a resolution agreeing that If
Brevard county would spend 100000
on state road No. 4 that the depart
ment would finish the job at a. cost
not to exceed $4,000 to the depart
ment. a resolution was adopted trans
ferring the convict camp now working
in Orange county to Brevard county
to work the Efssimmee- Melbourne
road just as soon as they finish in
Orange, which is estimated to be in
80 days.
Highlands county-The department
appropriated 900 to be used in con-
structing a rock surface II feet wide
on that section of state road No. 8,
between Josephine creek and Lake
Annie, to be used in conjunction with
$36 900 of county funds now on hand.
Gadsden coupty-The department
$4,000 to be used in con-
junction with $4,000 county funds to
construct a section of state road No.
1. between the Georgia, Florida and
Alabama railway west of Havana to
Quincy
Levy county - The department
agreed to surface treat with bitumi-
nous material the secion' of state road
No. between the Alachua county line
and the Marion county line.
Escambia County-A delegation in
Guiding r. P. Reese, county Commits
sioners Soderlind, Wentworth and
Candy and Engineer Wheat appeared
before the department requesting an
of $250,000 of federal
funds to be used in the construction
of a section of state road No. 7 be
tween Flomaton and Pensacola No
action was taken.
The department will be in session
again tomorrow, at which time it viii
probably take up the organization of
the department for the year and the
election Of a successor to. Major
Charles A. Browne, state highway en-
gineer. The department will also to-
morrow receive and open bids for the
of certain bridges in Pi-
neIlas county.
Yesterdays Session.
The state road department met here
yesterday in regular quarterly session
with all membeZS present save Capt.
W. J. Hillman Of Live Oak, who was
in attendance today.
The whole of the session yesterday
was occupied with hearing delegations
from various, counties. A delegation
from Brevard, including Hon. J. J. !
Parrish, County Commissioner john !
son and others appeared and requested
assistance on state road No. 4. The
is to turn over to the depart
ment $500, 600 in cash and have the !
department supplement the amount /
with state funds to complete "a miles
Of road in that county.
At the solicitation Of Judge Parker. :
county attorney OF Okeechobee county,
who appeared before the department,
e resolution was adopted consenting
to change the contract between Okee- |
chobee county and the okeechobee |
Construction company and Maule Paw
ing company in order that the work |
may be curtailed west of Okeeehobee |
City by an amount sufficient to sur
face treat the road now being con- !
structed east Of Okeechobee City tot
the ST Lucie county line should the |
county commissioners desire to do so. |