Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1927-04-14
MACON FIR M IS
AWARDED BRIDGE
At BOWEN'S MILL
State to Pave 125 Miles of
Road and Build IL
Bridges
LET $500, 900 WORTH
CONTRACTS FRIDAY
More Contracts to Follow at May
Meeting of State Highway
Department

Department
Contracts for 1875 miles of paved
roads, more than 200 miles of top
soiling and grading and for construc-
tion of ~ bridges, the largest road
building program ever adopted at one
tine by the state highway board at a
session held at the East Point
o{AP)ie. The total cost of the pro-
gram will be $3,5O,OOO.
Included in the program are i'm
pQ-tant liks of a trunk highway ex-
tending from Chattanooga to the
Florida line, by way of Atlanta and
Macon This road is now paved from
Atlanta to Perry, and some of the
contracts let Saturday will connect
paved links now lying in South Geor-
ga south OF Perry.
Important links on the highway
running south from Augusta to Jack
sonVille; the highway from Atlanta
to the South Carolina line were in
cluded in the program adopted Satur-
day.
Contracts let Saturday covered
more than thirty projects and to this
number will be added several other
projects, bids for which were receiv-
ed but for which contracts will not be
lei until the next session of the board.
Contracts Awarded.
Contracts awarded follows:
Glynn, surface treatment of 25.7
miles Of road, Sam E. Finley, Atlanta,
$51 1851.
Jeff Davis, SIS miles of grading,
Coffee, Eastman, Ga, $25, 1886.
Macon, bridge and culverts, j. II.
Kirlinz, Atlanta, $3.50.
r Troup, paving 9.4 miles, Davis, Att
la1ta, $225,224.04.
Meriwether, bridge and culverts,
d. g. and l. j. Scott, Decatur, $780,
227.27.
Richmond, paving, 2.5 miles, W.
p. Bowe, Jr., Augusta, $56,979.83.
Muscogee, bridge and culverts, j.
Emanuel, 1873 miles of paving,
Powell, Winston-Salem, N. C. $780,
1883.
Meriweather, 2 miles of paving,
Davis, Atlanta. SAP, 266.67.
Ware, 81 miles surface treatment,
Sam EE. Finlany, Atlanta, ST.
652.93.
Lee 1877 miles of surface treat
ment. Interstate, Nashville, $780,
57224
Barlow, bridge, J. B. McCrary, At
anta, S51,0O1.45.
Wayne, 81 miles of surfacing, F.
w. Long, Jacksonville, Fla, $125,-
707.56.
Houston, bridge and culvert, E.
NJ. Beckman, Perry, Ga, $16,605.65.
Washington, 2.5 miles of surfacing,
Finley, Atlanta, $26,449.45.
Polk, bridge, A S. Williamson,
Rockmart, Ga, $10,670.65.
Terrell, miles of paving, Hop
per- Winston, Sunnyside, Ga, $780,
702.97.
Rabun, 6 miles of base course, Bill
liter and Oliver Bros, Cincinnati,
SA4, 307.10.
Taylor, grading, 5.4 miles, and
bridges, Nichols, Atlanta, 56,918.62. |
Bulloch, IL miles of grading, Wal
lace, Atlanta, SOS, 920.53.
Emanuel, bridge and culverts, NAL
lory and Nash, Atlanta, 9,7OO.30.
Burge, IL miles of paving, N. G.
Martin, Covington, Ga, S50,390.51.
Crawford, grading q miles, w. C.
Mccoy, Lafayette, Ala, $48,926.55;
bridge, Small and Triplett, $24,-
057.25.
Ben Hill, bridge and culverts, H.
r. Ragsdale, Macon, $23,540.
Big Contract Awarded.
Dooly, Il miles of paving, Davis,
Atlanta, $32O,380.81
Baldwin, 2 miles Of grading, M. r.
Woodall, Atlanta, 19,123.87
Brantley, 2.8 miles of grading, Nc
Dougald, Atlanta, $4O,516,44.
Union, 2.5 miles of grading, j. R.
Crve, Hendersonville, N. c., $26,091.-
so
Gconee-C Clarke, two bridges Kirlinz
Atlanta, S17,516.16.1
I.aurens, T. 6 miles of grading
Sletterin and Sanford, Tampa, $780,
1887
Emanuel, 17.8 miles of grading, !
Nettrine and Sanford, Tampa, S48-
1878.
Emanuel, 17.8 miles of grading,
Shetterin and Sanford, TaTmpa, $780,
292.18. a.
Chattanooga, bridge, Smallg, I
Triopett, Jacksonville, $50,
Jefferson. miles of vihg, W. j.
Braon, Jacksonville, S1f3,706.38.
Lowndes, l. 5 miles of surface
treatment, Dixon, Savannah, 49,