Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1919 — SMITH & THOMPSON ARE AWARDED ROAD CONTRACT. [ARTICLE]

SMITH & THOMPSON ARE AWARDED ROAD CONTRACT.

W. F. Smith & Co., in which Delos Thompson of this city is very largely interested, was awarded a contract last week at Springfield, Hi., for the building of twelve miles of concrete road near Collinsville, 111. They are to receive $33,000 per mile for this construction, which is to be sixteen feet wide, seven and one-half inches thick and is to be composed of one part cement, two parts sand and three and onemlf parts crushed rock.