Milford News | 1928-09-21 | Page 1 | Paving Crew Snaps into it as Last Half is Started

PAVING CREW SNAPS INTO IT AS LAST HALF IS STARTED STREET CONCRETE IN EARLY NEXT WEEK The paving crew finished the west half of the Main street paving from the north end down to the Milford Hotel this week and is coming right down the street now finishing up the last half of pouring the concrete. con-crete. They are making very fast lime and by the results of their work Milford people are being able to get i vision of what our street will look like when completed. The mixture is hauled by trucks from the mixer situated by sand and Travel dumps over by the tracks. No unusual bustle or confusion is attend-'ng attend-'ng the work, the contractors, James and Bate having a fairly I small number of laborers on the job. Mil-;"o".' Mil-;"o".' peorjfe are fuprised at the rapid accomplishment in laying the concrete- A man is maintained for night work whose duties are to keep the new pavement well flooded with water wa-ter while the cement is setting. The water, with the dirt ridges, resemble nothing quite rs much as a rice field.