Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-10-08
BUYS ROAD WORK AT
RECORD LOW PRICES
Highway Department Clcsing
Contracts on Lowest Bids Ev-
er Listed and Starting More
Work.

Automobile and gasoline tax
funds. including a share from
Pine county. are buying needed
highway improvements at the
lowest prices ON state records. I'M
der contracts being awarded
this week for 08 miles Of
graveling. 38.4 miles Of
paving and Sos miles OF grad
ing. ]. 7. Ellison, acting COM
missioner of highways, made the
announcement and added that in
an attempt 10 secure more bar
gains Of the same kind. bids will
be opened Oct. IS on % miles Of
gravel surfacing to be completed
this year.
The acting commissioner and
other highway officials could not
explain the new reductions in
road building costs revealed in the
last lot Of bids totaling slightly
more than $1,000. 900. They de-
clared it unfortunate that the
state is without the necessary
working capital to provide addi-
tional and greatly needed road
improvements at low prices off
cred Incidentally, ii was stated
that only about $6.500.000 will be
actually spent on state trunk
highway construction this year or
less than half as much as In the
average year past. because the
auto and gas taxes, although in
creased, will not become available
in time.
improvements on which bids
will be opened Oct. 10 in St. Paul
include a 40-ft. bridge on T. II.
No. IA east Of Redwood Falls, es-
timated at SO, 500, a 60-foot bridge
on T. H. No. 50 south OF Spring
Valley. at $4,000, and the fol-
lowing graveling work:
T. II. No. g. Evansville west.
As miles at $4,000 estimated.
T. II. No. 3--Elbow Lake north.
o. miles, at $4,000.
T. III. No. 6--Moorhead south,
1877 miles at $4,000.
T. II. No. 6-Wolverton north,
10 miles, at $35.c00.
r. ri. No. 11--Pelland-L oman,
n miles. at 500. 900.
T. II. No. 10 Waseca south,
1913 miles, at $4,000.
TIL. No. 3D. GAINESVILLE Roth
say, AL miles, at $4,000.
All Of the crawling listed as
stated, will be completed by Jan.
LIST.
A square yard price of S1.i4 at
which concrete paving is being
contracted, highway engineers
said, is probably the biggest high
way value in Minnesota annals.
The state is TO furnish the ce-
ment and this will add probably
68 cents, but the price then will
be about rs cents under former
low prices.
Grading and gravel hauling
prices also took unexpected
drops. Grading was bid at IS
cents cubic yard, or a fourth off
former prices and crawling down
TO 10 cents a yard mile. against
a fair average Of Is cents on pre-
vious bids.
Contractors Of long experience,
insisting that some Of the bids
were under net costs. predicted
heavy losses for the bidders but
congratulated the public on Sc
curing road work at the low rec
ord figures.
Some Of the improvements now
being contracted for and the APP
parentIy low bidders on the vari-
GUS projects include the follow
ing:
New Concrete Paving.
Estate TO furnish cement.)
+. n. No. 1.--Pine City--Efinck-
ley. f3.f miles at t22s,s4s. bid BY r.
w. Coons, Hibbing. culverts at
s2.fs3 By Morris Construction Co.
Morris.
T. n. No Through Moose Lake.
81 miles at ts3.o6e By Russell Bros,
Wis.
Gravel Surfaefng.
r. n. No. z3.---Mission Greek west
ward. e-s miles at e2i.Sss By John
son q Carlson. Ceylon-
The apparently lowest bid on teo.-
900 lineal feet Of cable guard RAN on
many different parts Of the trunk
highway system was af @Dz.255 By =.
w. kibbey Engineering o.. Mime
spolis.