Commissioner Babcock

This Week ls Calling for

Bide on Work Between

New Ulm and Cobden.

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DISTANCE IS 23.1 MILES COST ESTIMATED $150,000

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Contract Let for Graveling on Trunk Highway No. 15 South

of Winthrop for $4,446.

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The first step in the reconstruction of Trunk Highway No. 7, between New Uim and Cobden, as the result of the County Commissioners voting bonds in the sum of $250,000 at the last meeting of the board in 1924,18the call for bids by Highway Commissioner C. M. Babcock, for grading. The bids will be opened next Tuesday. The distance from New Ulm to Cobden by the reconstructed highway,which will not follow the old route in a number of places is 23.1 miles and the estimated cost of the work is $150,000.

There are two other stretches on Trunk Highway No. 7, which is to be Included in the call for bids at the same time. One is for 12.3 miles of grading between Waseca and Owatonna at an estimated cost of $90,000and 8 miles of graveling between Tracy and Garvin, the estimated cost being $24,000.

Other Road Improvement

Bids will also be called for at the same time for grading on Trunk Highway No. 1, 3.2 miles near Mission; 11.2 miles grading north of Rutledge and 2.4 miles grading north of Hinckley. On Trunk Highway No. 3, 11 1/4 miles of paving, between Kellogg and Minneiska. On Trunk Highway No.8, 17.7 miles graveling between Erskine and Lengby. On Trunk Highway No. 9, 13 miles grading, between Hokah and Houston, nine bridges and on Trunk Highway No. 37, 2.4 miles of grading at Lincoln.

The total amount of the cost of the highway improvements called for in bids on June 16 is estimated at $981,000. Commissioner Babcock states that prices at which contracts are being made this week are well below preliminary estimates by engineers and indicate that road improvements this year will cost only about eighty cents on the dollar. Highway officials pointed out that conditions are unusually favorable for building needed highway betterments, save that the necessary funds are lacking and cannot be borrowed except by sanction of the legislature.

Grading bids were from 18 to 24 cents a cubic yard, compared with the average of about 30 cents on all grading to date under the new program. Graveling was bid at 16 cents a yard mile haul from cars, com-pared with 20 cents general average. Paving bids ranged from $2.06 to $2.22 1/2 a square yard, against a general average around $2.25.

Graveling on T. H. No.15

Among the list of tentative contract awards on bids opened on June 2, is to be found three miles of graveling on Trunk Highway south of Winthrop at $4,446 to Lundin Bros., Mankato. With the graveling of this stretch of highway No. 15 will be graveled to Winthrop.

In the same list is fifteen miles of graveling between Winthrop and Fairfax at $22,501 to Lundin Bros.

A 60-foot bridge on Trunk Highway No. 5 north of Le Sueur was tentatively let to the Belle Plaine Tile & Construction Co., of Belle Plaine, at $7,178.

One and a half miles of grading on Trunk Highway No.31, south of Mankato, at $16,110, was tentatively awarded to Jamison & Shelley, South Stillwater, with culverts at $1,367 to Lundin Bros., Mankato.

On Trunk Highway No.1 contracts were tentatively awarded for paving as follows: One mile in Albert Lea, 8.2 miles north of Owatonna, 6.1 miles south of Faribault, 19 miles in Faribault, 3.3 miles north of White Bear and 5 miles through Hugo.

Brown County Journal,

June 12, 1925

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