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CONCRETE TO BE USED IN LIMESTONE AND MORGAN Cullman Gap To Be Let For paving Soon Work of hard surfacing unpaved portions of the Bee Line highway in Alabama will begin next week with completion of the entire project by. January 1, Governor Bibb Graves has announced. Convict labor will be used on the 16-mile section between Brundidge and Troy, in Pike County. When this work is completed the convicts will be placed on the 17-mile section between Pea River and Ariton. Movement of convicts will start Monday. These sections, the Governor said, will be surfaced treated sand-clay composition. Bids were advertised for 31.8 miles between Montgomery and Orion, this section to be completed with paving. Other bids were advertised for work to begin at the same time on 8.5 miles in Limestone County near Athens, and 4 miles in Morgan County, between Decatur and Hartselle. These sections also will be paved with concrete. R. D. Jordan, engineer of the high way commission, said the bids will be received September 16 and it is planned to let the contracts and start to work as soon as contractors’ ma terials can be placed on the projects. The paving will be paid for from the highway flood relief fund and from other federal aid funds due the state, all of which will be matched on a 50-50 basis by state funds. The state will pay the entire cost of the work to be done with convict labor. Governor Graves repeated his prom ise to a Cullman delegation last week that the 344 mile link on the highway south of this city would be let for pav ing before his administration expired.
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Cullman Times Democrat
Cullman, Alabama, US
Thu, Aug 21, 1930
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