New Britain herald., 1927-12-23
.Sl,4O0,000 ASKED
 FOR IA HIGHWAYS
State Awards Contracts Before
 200 Builders
BETTER WATERBURY ROUTE
state Plans To Repair old Road Over Southington Nountain-Con- tract Awarded For New Glastou- bury y-Portland Trunk Line

Hartford, Dec. o3 P-Bids for state highway contracts totaling ap- proNimately S1,400,ooo Were opened by Highway Commissioner John A. Macdonald In the hall Of the house at the Capitol yesterday afternoon in the presence of 900 or more road builders and competitors. Of csp.- clal interest locally were the bids the towns Of East Hampton and Portland which will complete an other step in the departments plan Of through state highway from Springfield to Black Hall on the east side Of the Connecticut river The contract has already been awarded for the new Glastonbury Portland road, which is to carry the heavy traffic from Springfield 10 New Ha- ven by way of MiddIetown and Dur ham and will also tak, around Hart ford and the Berlin Pike the traf- fic from the northeastern part of the state bound for Miidlctown or New Haven. The east side river trunk line will eventually be extended from Cobalt 10 Haddam Neck and thence by the Salem Turnpike through North Plains to Black Hall and the Sound.
 Another important iob for which bids were opened yesterday is the Danbury-Now Milford road, which when completed, will connect Bridge port with the new State highway from New Milford north through Kent to Canaan, the main trunk line in the Housatonic valley,
 Bids were also received for the Danbury- Norwalk road which will join this Housat onlc highway with the Post road at Norwalk. taking considerable summer traffic around Bridgeport.
 To Rebuild Waterbury Road
 The old road over Southingtor mountain to Milldale from Water bury is also to be rebuilt and bids were heard for this job yesterday ! The apparent low bidders and thcir bids on each Of the fourteen jobs concerned in yesterdays meeting are as follows:
 : Town Of Brarfurj. Pn q Orchard Indian Neck road. D. Y. Frione aur | company of New Haven. $14,9HS.5j town Of Brookktioid. Danbury- New Milford road. John Arborio or New : Haven. Sl91.47l.60: town Of Brook 1 lyn. Brooklyn Danielson road. Chas X. Hagarty of Webster, Mass, Sll6.. 591: town of Portland and Easr Hampton, Portland Cobalt road. p Arigoni, Of MiddIetown, S295.5S9 town Of Kent. Macedonia road. 1ht | Osborne Barnes company Of Dan | bury, S50,97S.$1; town Of Milford 1 Woodmont cutoff and New flavcs avenue, Patterson and kossi, of Tor rington. S79,4S5.S2; town Of New i Fairfield and sherman, X. Vito Con struction corporation of Thompson l $l64.007.l5: town of North Haven | State street, the Lane Construction company. of Meriden, S7o.5ol.N5 town of Norwalk. Armory Hill, Pau BacCo or Stamford. S31,333."J towns Of Norwich and Preston. Nor wich- Preston road, John Brlsto, o Narra ganSett, r.. l.. $G0, S2G.1 ; town Of Southington and Wolcott Waterbury, Milldale road, the ! Suzio Construction company 0 Meridcn, S136.S52.10; town of West port. Riverside avenue. th. Osborn" Barnes company, Danbury. s5S,7St.
 65; town of Westport Compo ljN section, Boston Post road. Osborne Barnes company, Sl9.42$.1J: town of Ridgtield and Wilton, Danburv Norwalk road. John Arborio, NeI
 Haven. s15,S0S.1o.
 If these bidders are found to hay
 met the departments specification in their bids and are found to D
 reliable concerns, they will b awarded the contracts ill few days The winter months will be deVot
 ed to cutting and filling and gradln wherever possible, so that the lay
 ing ot the road surface can b"gl
 as soon as practical after the 9rom
 thaws in the spring.