The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-01-10
new. ACTIVITIES
ON HIGHWAY Is
TO BEGIN SOON
FORCES WILL BEGIN PRO-
GRAM OF REPAIRS BE-
TWEEN KEY WEST AND NO
NAME KEY STRETCH

I dCl4hlliCS on litC
highway between Key West and
No Name Key will be put in e.
| feet next week when the forces
now at work begin a program o.
repairs and improvements under
the supervision Of E. c. Cheney.
superintendent of maintenance,
State Road Department.
This information was given The
Citizen Wednesday evening at
the Hotel Colonial by J. Ham
Bowling. state highway engineer
who arrived yesterday by state
road department plane, accom-
panied by Mayor A. B. McMullen,
state director of airways and
Walter Gall, members OF the
state board.
| Asked if there would be any
very comprehensive road CON
struction work done between Key
West and No Name Key in the
very near future Mr.. Bowling
said that nothing is contemplated
until the complete program of re-
pairing the hurricane damage TO
the road and bridges TO the north .
of Lower Matecumbe is COM
/ pleted.
He said that this would be pos
sibly completed in about 30 days,
and this was also the opinion OF
B. NJ. Duncan, consulting en-
gineer of the department, who
had arrived in the lobby of the
hotel and Joined the group.
Mr.. Bowling was then asked if
there would be any number Of
men employed on the work 10
start Monday, and replied that
there may be some put to work.
but as this was in charge of En-
gineer E. c. De Garmo and would
be supervised by Mr.. McClenney.
the entire program would be LEFT
to them.
Ralph B. Pinder, maintenance
foreman at Key West, said that
| equipment, consisting Of one.
dragline, two graders. two trac-
tors, two dump trucks, one roller
and one sprinkler, are expected
to arrive at Key West not later
than Sunday or Monday. To this
equipment will be added items
which are available here, inclad-
ing another dragline.
1t is proposed to widen the
road between No Name Key and
Key West to "a feet. filling. fac
ing and finishing, and doing all
necessary to put the highway in
first class condition.
Just how long the work will re-
quire has not been definitely I
stated, but it is expected that the
work up to what is known as
Dead Mans Curve will be COM
pleted by the time the work on
the upper Keys is completed to
Lower Matecumbe, when addi-
tional forces will be brought to
this end and the project o.
Strengthening out sections OF the
road eliminating certain curves
will be started.
The completion of this part of
the work will shorten the road
from Key West to No Name Key
| by approximately seven miles. !
The Citizen was told. |
Mr.. McClenney, superintendent /.
of maintenance. will move his
family to Key West to reside here
during the road operations. and
has secured from c. o. Alderman
his home on Won Pfister street for
a period of months.
| While no announcement as to /.
the definite number of men to be
employed at Key West has been
made, it is understood. said Mr..
Pinder, that about 80 men viii be
added to the forces.
Dir. Downing said he had enjoy
ed his trip to Key West and es-
pecialIy the fishing excursion in
the afternoon when he, Major Nc
Mullen and Mr.. Gall, were guests
of Mr.. Duncan on the cruiser
Boca Chica.
/ The party caught seven king
fish, five naaekerei. a number OF
baracudas and others of the
many kinds found in these waters.
i Engineer Downing, Major Nc
Mullen and Mr.. Gall left today on
the state road department plane
for Miami.