Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1919 — STATE AWARDS BIG CONTRACTS [ARTICLE]

STATE AWARDS BIG CONTRACTS

PROPOSED HIGHWAY IMPROVE--1 MENTS COMPRISE 54.5 MILES , -—COST $1,891,669.55. ■ Indianapolis, August 4.—Contracts for the improvement of eight sec‘itions of highway, comprising 54.5 ■miles, at an aggregate cost of sl,891,669.55, were awarded today by I the state highway commission. Twenty-three bids were submitted, all of which were under the estimates made by the commission’s engineering department. All of the roads are to be on concrete construction. I The roads, mileage, contractors and amount of bids follow: National roald, Hendricks and Putnam counties, from near Stilesville to Mount Meridian, 8.12 miles, Fred Cunningham, Martinsville, $364,472.45.

Lincoln Highway, Osceola to Elkhart, 3.5 miles, Northern Construction company, Elkhart, $117,088.10. Range Line road, Broadripple to Carmel, 5.76 miles, J. E. McNamara Construction company, Indianapolis, $205,973.95. Louisville road, Seymour to Bartholomew county line, 6.22 miles, Davis Construction company, Seymour, $210,377.60. National toad, Marion county line to . Greenfield, 8.85 miles, C. M. I Kirkpatrick, Greenfield, $230,063.27. j- Lincoln Highway, from one mile south of Benton to Elkhart county line, 6.35 miles, Reith-Reilly Construction company, Goshen, $284,- ' 974.20. j Michigan road, Plymouth to St. Joseph county line, 8.39 miles, Beck-er-Enyart company, $274,419.97. National road, Seelyville to Brazil, 7.35 miles, Carpenter Construction company, Terre Haute, $265,777.10. | . CL ..... -- - - -