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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—NO. 156
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PAVING COSTING
COUNTY REALLY
ONLY $7,000 ML
Staying Within Estimate,
Board Tells Chamber
Officials
Stripped of all camouflage and ex
pressed in figures of actual dollars
expended by the county, Sumter’s
permanent paved roads are costing
approximately $7,000 a mile, and
all rumors to tJie contrary mav be
regarded as either intentionally
false or based upon other than re
liable information.
When these facts were brought
4 ,• out at a meeting of the commission-
X ers of the Americus and Sumter
County Chamber of Commerce and
three members of the Board of
County Commissioners of Roads and
Revenues this morning, the former
expressed themselves as immensely
pleased with results to date, and
L. G. Council, one of them added: “I
say, gentlemen, that if such roads as
that now being built on the Dixie
Highway east of Americus can be
secured at a cost of $7,000 a mile,
then let’s go ahead; don’t do any-'
thing, to disorganize the road forces I
that are doing such splendid work.”
Present at the meeting represent
ing the county commissioners were;
Chairman Neill A. Ray, R. S. Oliver,
secretary of the board, and J. J. Wil
son. President Carr S. Glover, of
. the Chamber of Commerce presided
and members of the business men’s |
organization present, besides Mr. |
Glover were Frank P. Harrold. L. G.
Council Frank Lanier, T. M. Furlow,
•Srank Sheffield, Walter Rylander,'
. L. Mize and Secretary Perkins
District, Highway Engineer W. C.|
Caye, Jr., and County Road Super-;
intendent John Ansley were present;
by invitation, as was also a news- ;
paper
• Reports Current.
Frank Sheffiejd was the first
speaker, and he confined his remarks
principally to a statement that re-1
ports regarding alleged exaggerated
cost incurred in paving operations
had become current that the job
undertaken by the county in saving
its roads is a big one, and that the
commissioners deserved the co-oper
ation of the people, while the people
were entitled to know the cost in ;
curred and progress attained. He re-,
ferred to the availability of certain
native rocks which have been found
to be excellent paving material, and
suggested to the commissioners and
others present that should it be true
that paving costs had exceeded the;
estimates originally made, making it;
impossible to give the people the
number of miles of paved roads prom-!
ised when bonds were voted, that
the /use of this native rock material I
be considered in the laying out of'
future paving projects. He also re
fererd to a possibility of deferring;
further paving operation until ma- i
terials and labor reach lower price
levels, if it had been found that the
cost of paving now is excessive or;
cost so much as to make fulfillment'
of promises made the people impos-i
aible.
Mr. Oliver, speaking for the board
then said Mr. Caye, the district engi
neer .of the state highway depart
ment was present, and he had asked
him to brin" with him certain figures
bearing upon the cost of pa-ing
The native rock material referred to
by Mr. Sheffield, affords excellent
paving material, Mr. Oliver stated ;
and his remarks indicated he would
not oppose its use in future projects j
Only Approximations.
Mr. Caye, presenting his figures!
directed attention to the fr that
they were only approximate estimates
based upon work done in all parts of
the state. These figures, he said,
show that 1 per cent of the cost of
paving is properly chargeable to
drainage, 2 per cent to grading and
97 per cent to surfacing or actual
paving. To date, he estimated, Sum
ter county has expended on paving
projects a total of $58,921, of which
$14,957 has been spent for machinery
and ent ipment and $22,000 for pav
material. Os the paving material
Jflonere is a quantity still on band un
r used, and a quantity sufficient to
pave 6 miles of roadway has been
contracted for by the county au
thorities.
The original estimated cost of the
type of road being laid here, he said.l'
was $26,000, of which the federa’ I
government under the 50-50 plan '
pay on 9 _lla,f - This cost of 526,- :
000 per mile includes payment for '
r an estimated expense i
of $2.50 to $3.00 per man each day I]
and convict labor being used, it is es-I'
timated this will bring the net cost !
of the road to $20,000 per mile, of ■
which sum the federal government, 1
under the 50-50 plan, will pay sl3,- '
000, leaving only $7,000 a mil > af >
the countys share in the construc
tion work.
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