The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-06-05
PREPARES
TO BUILD MORE ROADS
To Let Contract Friday Night for Two and
Three Tenths Miles of Nine-Foot
Road to Fork School

Contracts for clearing, paw
ing and bridging, the two and
three tenths miles of road from
Elizabeth City to Fork School
house, arc to be let Friday
night at a special meeting OF
the County Highway Commls-
sion to be held in the office OF
Chairman S. G. Scott.
The Fork road is project Num-
ber One of Pasquotank County's
new road bond issue, bids for
which were opened Wednesday oi
this week. The two lowest BIDS
were offered by Louis Lawson OF
Norfolk, and by ID. f.. & T.. Il. VII.
liams Of Norfolk and Hlizaheth
City.
Specifications for several types
of roads were made by County En-
ginaer ]. X. Ford, and bids were re-
ceived Oh Gll. The types being
considered are brick Oh fOur-inch
concrete base, brick Oh five-inch
adam base, concrete with eight
inch curb and six inch center, con
crete with six inch curb and eight
inch center. All roads under the
act of the 1925 General Assembly
are TO be only nine feet in width,
which means that these roads may
be outgrown in a short while. Nine
foot roads are not popular In this
section.
Louis Lawson bids 500, 9,1SO.SO for
brick road with fOur-inch con-
crete base; $49,6O6.20 for brick
road with five-inch macadam base;
S36.119.SO for the G-S-6 concrete
road; $36,732 for the S-6-s concrete
road. Figures OH other types were
HIGHER. Reinforcement in the above
roads, would make them cost more
but should not be considered with
out it.
d. L. & T.. L. Williams bid $685.
O5S.3G for brick with four-lnch con-
crete base; $44,096 for brick with
five-inch macadam base; $31, ,222 Tor
eight inch curb and sir-inch center
concrete; s3A2S3.2O for the six
inch curb and eight-inch center COLI
crete: and bids Oh other types were
| higher.
The types of roads that will prob
ably be considered, are the S-6-s
concrete, which means a concrete
slab six inches thick in the center,
and increasing In thickness outward
to the curb, until thickness OF
eight inches is reached; and the
brick road laid on a four inch con.
crete base: Specifications have
been made fof, a 6-S-6 cOnsrete road
or a slab eight inches thick in the
center, and diminishing in thick
ness until it Is only six inches
| thick at the curb. The S-G-S COLI
crete road, Is recommended for
nine-foot road, because of the ad'
ded thickness at the curb, which
is considered an advantage when
heavy-ladcn trucks run off the road,
which is constantly the case Oh
narrow road. a thick curb pre-
vents the road from breaking.
1t is likely that there will be
Il strong argument over the reia'
tive merits Of brick and concrete
Unbiased engineers sayithat elthe
| type will give the value that !!
paid for. It will he rememberc
that all the roads built Of brlt
IN PasquOtank County. are "Cls
B" roads, nOne of them haVlIi
a foundation. The road designer
by Engineer Ford, would be "Clas.
A" road with at least four-inu'
foundation of concrete, giving al
additional wearing surface of two
and II half inches Of brick protected
on the curb by Il concrete shoulder.
The bricks would betcemented to-
.cthcr with asphalt and coated
with asphalt, making Il smooth rid
ins surface. None of the Pasquo-
tang County brick roads today were
cementcd and covered with asphalt.
They have 10 foundation, which
accounts for the rough surface ln
places. The concrete roads de-
signed by Engineer Ford are o.
the latest approved type, and have
been tested out in many sections.
All contracts that may be let,
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