Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-06-24
ORGANIZATION
PUTS SPEED IN
HICHWAYWORK
Rapid Progress Being Made
in Construction Of Cam
eron County's New High
way

Half of the McElwrath contract for
highway construction in Cameron coun-
ty will be completed by July l." was
the statement made yesterday by Ty-
rec Bell, superintendent in charge OF
the construction work. The highway
which will be completed by July /,
represents half tn emileage contained
in the contract, but in view OF the
splendid organization Mr.. Bell and his
foreman have built up, il will not re-
quire q similar amount Of time to COM
plete the remaining half.
Over 500 feet per day was the rec
ord made by the crews on both the
record which. il is believed, has net
been surpassed in the South for two
course construction. Through organi-
zation and experience the crews are
new pouring concrete at a rate that
has seldom been equalled, and that the
quality Of their work cannot be sur
passed by the State of Texas is attest
ed by every county, state and federal
highway engineer who has examined
the new construction.
Will Soon Move Camps.
The crew on the north end will, have
the gap between La Feria and the
Cameron county line closed by We'd
nesday night, unless some unforeseen
accident occurs to delay the work, and
on the south end the strip extending
two and three-quarters miles north of
Olmito will be completed not later than
Wednesday night. The south end con-
struction crew will move their camp to
Barreda. and on the north end the
camp will move to Stuart Place. Both
camps will move this week, and will
entail very little delay in the construc-
tion work.
I'VE are proud of the record our
crews are making" Mr.. Bell stated. in
discussing the record OF the past week.
when the work started early in the
spring practically every man on the
job was inexperienced in this class of
construction, but l believe we have
now the most efficient crews TO be
found on any highway construction in
Texas. The men in charge of the work
are mostly residents Of the Valley. and
more efficient or loyal men could not
be found. Since we gots organized, the
construction work has proceeded Mt a
pace that has seldom been equalled."
According to estimates. the compile
tion Of the strips the crews are now
working on will add approximately
nine miles to the mileage or concrete
Highway in the county. On the south
section five miles will be completed.
and on the north section four miles.
When the work started there were
los miles to complete On the south
end and 1913 miles on the north. En-
gineers estimate that IL the present rate
Of prevress Is maintained the entire
highway will be completed early in
October and probably be ready for
traffic before November 1.
Best Highway in the State
"Cameron county will have the best
concrete highway in the state, was
the statement made yesterday by
former state and federal good roads
expert, after he had devoted several
hours to an inspection OF the highway.
II sincerely hope every other part Of
the Valley will secure a highway OF
similar quality, and il they do. it will
not only be n permanent highway
which will solve many Of the Valleys
TRANSPORTATION problems. but il will
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