Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1922-03-30
ROAD maintenance
PROGRAM
Over $1OO,OOO.OO To Be Invested In
Fulton County Highways

Both the State and Fulton County
Highway Departments will institute
one Of the most extensive road repair
and reconstruction programs in Full
ton County the coming season that
has ever been experienced.
The state department in addition
to the new road work on the Bryan
Wauseon Road and the Archbold-
Fayette Route and the Shoop Avenue
Improvement on the Toledo -Wauseon
Road on which S153,000.0O has been
certified to the County for the pay
ment of the States share of the cost
of the improvements, the department
will spend approximately $75,O00.OOI
for the maintenance and reconstru,'-
tion of 47.5 miles of State Highwa rs
in the county.
Under drainage of the subgrades in
places where open ditch drainage has
been difficult to maintain, which
pears to be the key to success in
highway construction, will be carried
on extensively.
Weekly inspection of road sur
faces will be made. The development
of pits and other surface defects will
be Immediately repaired by the states
maintenance forces under the super
vision of Superintendent of High
ways, Chas. Garman. Section "C',
Archbold-Fayette Road, mile of ma
cadam directly south of the Village of
Fayette, which, owing to faulty con-
struction has been a source of con-
tinuous expense and burden to the
department to properly maintain the
surface, will be widened two feet and
an eight inch course of stone added.
The cost of the improvement will be
approximately $12,000.00. Several
miles of state system will be given a
surface treatment of Tar cover with
gravel or stone.
The County Commissioners unde'.
the direction of County Surveyor Be-
nath will invest about $60,000.00 in
road repair and reconstruction.
Thirty and sixty-five hundreds
miles of macadam road surfaces will
be surfaced treated at an estimated
cost of $36,094.71.
AS competition in highway COL
struction and repair work this season
is very keen, and work bid for at a
price less than what it appears that
it could be done for by force account,
the job will be let by competitive Sc Il
bidding to the lowest and most re-
sponsible bidder. The period of appli-
cation of the treatment, as last year,
will be between June 18th and August
18th, when road surfaces are thor
oughly dried out.
In addition to the resurfacing Of
25 miles of gravel road on the Lyons
Winameg Road and two miles on the
German-Clinton Township line north
of .Pettisville with six inches of gravel
at an estimated cost of 100000 the
balance of the repaip fund will be
used in the reconstruction of County
Improvement No. Al, two miles of
macadam road northwest of Fayette.
The two mile section of the county
system was badly torn up during the
construction of the ten mile of the
Fayette-Hudson Road last season.
The road is to be widened and six
and three quarters inches of stone
added to the eight inch base now in.
and then surfaced treated again.
The completion of the Hudson-Fay-
cite road by the State of Michigan
this season, with the reconstruction of
the two miles in Fulton County will
connect the Villages Of Fayette and
Hudson with an improved road
thirteen miles in length.
The opening of the repair work
during the months of April and May
will consist of grading operations
and drainage corrections almost en-
tirely. Three grading outfits will
be kept in continuous operation
grading the county traffic bound
stone roads and the gravel road i'm.
provements.
1t is the intention of the highway
officials to have the entire system oil
highways, both state and county il
the best possible condition for traffic
by the first of June.