The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-05-03
THE NEW ROAD.
1t Will be Built According to the Instruc-
lions OF the Supervisors,

II Will be Built According to the Instruc-
lions OF the Supervisors.
The committee on citizens who re-
Gently made an examination OF the
present condition of the Twin Bluffs
road, as heretofore reported, on Friday
filed a written report of their findings
in that case with Mr.. Andrew Lynch,
assistant supervisor, giving their rea-
sons why they recommend that sum
not to exceed $1,000 be spent to finish
that road in addition to that alrea-
dy expended.
As there is in certain quarters, par
ticularly,a noisy objection to spending
any more money on that road, thus
abandoning $500 already put in it, it
is lust as well that the people inter
ested as taxpayers be informed as to
the true state of the case, that every
man may Judge for himself whether
the expenditure is advisable.
The Twin Bluffs road. as everyone
by this time knows, was planned, laid
out and partially built primarily for
the benefit of the Peerless Brick Co.,
whose new plant at that point gives
reasonable promise of becoming in the
not far future one of our most impOr-
UdIlu lnuuSllltS tlu pios iiE 'Siy iui 81
number of men.
OTo realize fully the importance of
the plant, one ought to understand
something of the process OF making
bricks. 1t is sufficient to say here that
using the semi-dry process, which is
possible in not one brick yard in fifty,
owing to the peculiarities of clays, few
of which can be worked at all by the
semi-dry proceSst this plant possesses
facilities for cheap production pos
sessed by few Brick yards in Northern
Illinois, besides which the clay is so
situated as to work fromthe bank to the
kiln without expensive handling of
any kind as at every move it works to
finished brick by gravity. With such
advantages it is not reasonable to
imagine the works can have anything
but a steady and rapid growth, the
product being both common and front
brick:
This works wants an outlet from a
pocket, so to speak. This Twin Bluffs
road will give it to them. There must
he a convenient way for their men to
get to and from town: and as it is not
possible for all or any great part of
them to live in town, they must have
homes at the works, and the only place
they can live is on the bluff, to which
there must be road in order to per-
init delivery supplies to their hands.
This is the real necessity of the case.
In answer to the question often
propounded, Why, then, was not the
bridge built nearer the works? There
is this reply.
The purpose of the Rock Island
Company is to build receiving and
shipping station at the Bluffs; but as
the hollow in which the works are sit
uated is occupied, the station will be
built at the west opening in the bluff
next, which is directly opposite the
north end of the bridge: and at the
expressed desire of the company the
bridge was put there.
It's not likely that $1,000 will be
enough to build the road to the top OF
the bluff and also under the bluff to
the works; but it is certain that with
this amount of money spent to I'LL the
approaches to the bridge and what the
Peerless Company will themselves do
both branches of the road will be
built. In the course of a short time
the bluff east from the north end of
The bridge will be cut away by the
company and sold as fire sand, and
thus that bit Of the road will be cut
out: and one of the stockholders of
the company has intimated that he
would be willing to make contract to
finish the other branch of the road to
the top of the bluff for $1,000: in which
case it would seem to be a good in
vestment for the town to help
the ompany this much, seeing
ing that these gentleman have built
not only this new works but also the
still greater works in the city itself
without asking the city or any indi-
vidual to give them dollar Of aid or
bonus. They are largely responsible
for Ottawa's boom of the past two
wears and turn about is fair play"
In the immediate future they purpose
10 build about twenty houses for their