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Show Mien LovYKit nuts m.idh l'oit COVSTIU't TIO OK HAItll KOAll Karly bids for the constructlor Federal Aid roads Indicate that the prices during the coming season will be materially lower, than last season, according to reports received by the Hurcaii of Public Roads of the 1'. S. Department r,r Agriculture. While bids have not been received on arty large volume of work, there is. however, how-ever, enough to indicate a lower level lev-el of prices. Grading has been bid at 20, 23 1-2 and 30 cents a cubic yeard In Mis souri. Arkansas and .Minnesota, respectively, res-pectively, as compared with an average aver-age of 35 cents for the section in which these States are located in 1921. Prices of reinforcing steel In place range around 6 cents as compared with the 1921 price of 8 or 9 and. bridge steel a' 4 3-4 cents compared com-pared to 7 and S cents. A few bids for the best grade cf concrete, of about ?17 a cubic yard have been received in sections where the 1921 price was about $25 a cubic cu-bic yard. Prices bid for the construction of concrete roads per square yard are as follows: Ohio $1.52. Colorado, 7 2.27. and Georgia $1.38 as compared with an average for the whole country coun-try during the period 1916-1920 of v2.57 a square yard. |
