Smyrna times., 1924-03-19
SHERMAN { RHODES LOWEST
BIDDERS DEAEYNEVILLE ROAD
HIGHWAY COMMISSION OPENS
FIRST BIDS ON 1924 PROGRAM
Bidders Came From Various Places
But Awards Will Be Made Later
Seven Contracts Opened

The first bids on the 1924 building
program Of the State Highway Com
mission were opened at Dover We'd
nesday afternoon in the Court House.
1t was attended by the largest crowd
seen there in rencent years, indicating
a desire to bid on Delaware roads.
The contracts opened, the awards of
which will not be made until the de-
partment is able to check up on the
offers, were as follows:
Contract No. 81, A. R. C. bridge at
Drawers, New Castle county-G. A.
Fink & Co., Harrisburg, Pa, $36,760; |
Frissel-Cleayes Company, New York,
$46,285; S. S. Jones Contracting Cor
pOration, New York, $46,960; Ray |
mond Concrete Piling Company, New |
York, $44,O12; H. G. Tyrrell Company |
Baltimore, Md, $48,665.
Contract CN-14, Walker-Deakyne-
vile, 1.775 miles, New Castle county
Baton Construction Company, Phil
adelphia, $88,O9O, $87 ,595, S87,475,
$87,97O; Sherman Rhodes Company,
Smyrna, $4,000, $81, ,7O4, $82,97O,
$81,584. The four bids by both COM
panies were on stone and Stag basis
as we'll as with reinforced.
Contract CN-15, Mt Pleasant Sum-
nit Bridge, 2.27 miles, New Castle
county-G. R. Abbott, Baltimore, Md,
S85 ,945, $85, ,795; Broad Creek Con-
struction Company, ElktOn, Md, $751;
926, S9O,775; William Eisenberg, Phil
adelphia, $50, ,962.5O, S81 $3.50, $751;
$3.50, S82,737.5O (the two and four
bids were on stone and Stag and re-
inforced); Field-BaIker & Underwood,
Philadelphia, S91, 1880, $86, 6,959.50,
, O,784.5O, $86,584.5O; Frissel-C -Cleayes
Company, Inc, Port Jervis, N. j., $751;
9875O, S87 ,9878O, S91 ,6278O, $87,627-
r so; McNichol Paving and Construc-
ton Company Philadelphia, S93, ,452.50
S9O,332.
Contract CK-17, through Frederica
O5O7 miles-George & Lynch, Dover
S18,231.82, $17,979.80( (stone and slag);
Broad Creek Construction Company
e Elkton, Md, $19,921, $19,921 (stone
and slag).
Contract CK-2O Walnut street, Mil
ford, 1.O1 r. L. Bonham, Bridgeton
N. j., S35, 1876; $35,23O, $34,5O5; $43,
ID $50; Field and Underwood, S36,105
S36,24O, S33,81O, S33,945; Hannamar
and Burroughs, Salisbury, Md, $33,
TAI, $33,927, 1892, $33,502.
Highway Engineering and COnstruc
ton Company Selbyville, Del, S35,92C
$36,O1O, 1920, $36,O1O.
e Sutton and Courson Company
10 942.5O, S34,994.5O, $35,075.5O.
Charles Webster Company, trading
as Webster and Company, East Ne1
Market, Md.-S34,475, $94,7OO, s33
795, S34,O2O.
Baton Construction Company, Phi
,co adelphia-$38, ,43O, S38,520, $37,58'
he S37,67O.
as Contract No. CS-3O, Wescott's Coz
per ner-R r-Rehoboth, SIS miles, Sussex coul
tn: tn: ty-David Shonetag, Saugerties,
Y.,-$187, ,756, S188,O56; $685. 1856, $184
"a O5O R. L. Bonham, Bridgeton, N.
of -$184,64O, $185,O9O, $179,04O, S179
-. 31O. Development Company of Ba
of timore, Md, - S184,288, $184,94
:, $1S1 ,488, S182,14S. D. f. O'Conne
of of Ridley Park, Pa.,-$179, 1896, $175,57
- Robert Paving Company, BaltimOr
" Md.,-$165,66 $166,268.
ans Contract CS-31, Bethel-Broad Gre
will viii 2.43 miles, Sussex county-Field, Ba
cii- Ter and Underwood, Philadelphia, 81;
Mt 1880, $73,492.5O, $7O,98O, $71,2s
Hannaman and Burroughs, Sahsbul
- Md.-S72, ,382.5O, $72,782.5O, $72,07
so, S72, ,4O7.5O. McNichol Paving Co
? struction Company, Philadelphia, 81
500. E. Riley Mixner Company, So
522.7O. Informal, not considered)
The highway commission gave
hearing to the Sussex County Hig
way Commission as to routes of &C
( tain roads in that county yet to
decided upon in the years road pi
!. gram.
e Delegations from Newport, Clayt
j. and other parts of New Castle a
Il Kent counties were heard by the co
!, mission for improved roads.