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Show ROAD WORK FINISHED IN RECORD TIME Milford-Minersville highway will be completed on Saturday, according to the announcement made yesterday by Tom Terry, resident engineer of the , state road department. Graveling was completed last Tuesday Tues-day at ten thirty in the morning and the oiling which was being completed as fast as the gravel could be hauled would have been finished today but the rain held i) the work so that it cannot can-not be finished before Saturday. Work on both graveling and oiling has been rushed and finished a month before it was expected. Starting on June 29, the graveling was to have taken fifty days. However, it was learned that J. C. Compton, in charge of the oiling work, would finish his work in the Delta district earlier than had been planned. New trucks were ordered and the graveling work was ' pushed along so that Compton could start oiling immediately. Up to July 21, Tom Leaver employing employ-ing three, four yard trucks, distributed distribut-ed the gravel at a rate of 362 yards a day. When additional trucks arrived k ' on the twenty third of July, the work was increased to 568 yards a day wit.f three four yard trucks, three six yard trucks and one three yard truck used to do the hauling. Seventeen men were employed on the trucks and at the pit. Oiling began on July 22 under contract con-tract to be completed in twenty-seven days; but by working two shifts night and day the oiling work when it is completed Saturday will have only required re-quired eighteen days. The road has a good smooth surface and a good base which will hold up, Terry stated. The gravel which was gotten from the local pits is high grade and the eight coats of oil will insure its holding together and furnishing furn-ishing an excellent surface. From here Compton will move his outfit to Anderson's ranch where he will begin work on oiling a seven mile strip on highway 91 between Anderson's Ander-son's ranch and Harrisburg. J. Sunision had the graveling contract con-tract for the Milford-Minersville road and the hauling was sublet to Tom ' Leaver. , n |
