The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-07-31
New Projects Are Started as
Other Highway Jobs APP
pr0ach Completion
COVERS A WIDE RANGE
Contracts Let for New Paw
ing and Construction of
Fourteen Bridges

Money received from gasoline and
auto taxes will be put into new
work as rapidly as it becomes
available. Bids will be received
August 10, Mr.. Babcock announces,
on four gravel surfacing projects
and three shoulder grading jobs. He
also gives out a list of fourteen
bridge jobs, one paving job and
seventeen grading, crawling and
shouldering jobs awarded to con-
tractors on bids July %.
This does not mean, Mr.. Babcock
explains, that the contractors will
be able to employ number OF new
men. Many grading and paving jobs
are nearing completion, but the new
jobs will enable contractors to keep
their crews busy until late fall. The
total number of men employed will
be as great, or possibly a little
larger, in the last half of the sum-
mer as in the first half.
! Work on all Of the projects on
which bids were opened July % will
get under way in few days. All
but three of the contracts are to be
completed this fall. The interstate
bridge at Saltwater is to be COM
pleted Sept. Is, 1881. Grading L. H.
No. 5 from Warman to McGrath, is
to be finished Aug. 1, 1881, and No.
20, from Chatfield to Fountain,
June 1, 1881.
Shouldering routes now being
paved and crawling routes where
grading is under way, will be push
ed as rapidly as possible, so that
new highways may be opened to
traffic. The list of projects on
which bids will be opened August
10 follows:
Grave Surfacing
T. H. No. dodge Centre to east
county line, length 80 miles, 5000
Gu. yds. gravel.
T. H. No. 20-Rochester to Pine
Island, length 1874 miles, 16,400 Gu.
yds. gravel.
T. H. No. 21-Zumbrota to Wanna
mingo, SO miles, $500 Gu. yds. gra-
vel.
T. H. No. 33-From Warren to
south county line, length 1873 miles,
11,040 Gu. yds. gravel.
T. H. No. 33-From Thief River
Falls to north county line, length
14.3 miles, LAO cubic yards gravel.
Shoulder Grading
T. H. No. Rochester to Eyota,
length 1913 miles, $4,000 cubic yards
material. ..
T. H. No. 10-From Murdoch to
east county line, length 10.1 miles,
II 900 cubic yards material.
From Pennock to west county
line, length AZ miles, $4,000 cubic
yards material. m.-
T. H. No. 22-From Gaylord to
T. H. No. II near Glencoe, length
1875 miles, $4,000 cubic yards ma
| terial.
The lists of low bidders at the let
ting July %, together with the
amount of the bids and amount of
work to be done, is given below:
Paving
T. H. No. Rochester to Eyota,
length 100 miles, $4,000 squaure
yards concrete. Charles Weaver,
Anoka, at $155,295.
Grading
T. H. No. 3-Fergus Falls to juno
ton state aid road No. 2. length 6.5
miles, 288,0O0 cubic yards excava-
ton, Erickson, Johnson and r. H.
Fraser, 3631-22 Ave. s., Minneapo-
lis, at $73,57S.
T. H. No. 5-Amboy to Vernon
Center, length 4.8 miles, $4,000 cub
ic yards. excavation, r. P. England,
Mankato, at $22,466.
Warman to McGrath 1879 miles,
$4,000 cubic yards excavation, J. J.
& M. S. Mergens, Gateway Bank
Bldg, Minneapolis, at $150,356.
T. H. No. S-Grand Rapids to
Wellers Spur, length 9.5 miles,
100000 cubic yards excavation. A
Guthrie & Co., Builders Exchange,
st. Paul, at $34,144.
T. H. No. 20-Chatfield to Foun-
tain, length go miles, 361,00 cubic
yards excavation, Charles Weaver,
Anoka, at S193, 4OZ.
T. H. No. 59-At Rochester,
length 0.4 miles, 25,6OO cubic yards
channel excavation, Mclaughlin &
Lang, Foshay Tower, Minneapolis
at $34,183.
Gravel Surfacing
T. H. No. 15-Between Madelia
and Truman, length 1913 miles, $500
cubic yards gravel, Cosmos Con-
struction Co., Cosmos. at $6,593.
T. H. No. 69-Annandale to Wat
kins, length IA miles, 1880 cubic
yards gravel, Ducan Bros. Cannon
Folls, at $S,034.
Shouldering
T. H. No. 1-Albert Lea to south
state line, length lib miles, $4,000
cubic yards material, Nordquist
Bros, Gateway Bank Bldg, Mime
apolis, at S15,148.
T. H. No. 3-Alexandria to Osa-
kis, length ITO miles, 23,3OO cubic
yards material, Megarry Bros,
Balm, at $1,000.
T. III. No. jackson to Junction
No. 8 north, length, 20 miles. 1920
cubic yards material, and T. H. No.
8, from Jackson west, length 81
miles, 10000 cubic yards material,
S. ]. Reader, Gateway Bank Bldg,
Minneapolis, at S$30.954.
T. H. No. 5-Mankato to st. Pet
er, length 9.5 miles, IS, 400 cubic
yards material, Lundin Borthers,
Mankato, at ST., 161.
T. H. No. HWaseca to Ovation
ina, length 11.9 miles, $1,000 cubic