The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-11-25
IOWA BODYBUILDING.
Scott County Solves the Problem of High
way Reform.

! Scott county, Ia, has suffered mud
embargo every spring until patience
| has at last ceased to be virtue and
the work of securing good roads has
been begun in earnest. A correspond
ent of the Chicago Record describes
the methods pursued in pulling high
ways out Of the mud. He says:
about three months ago, for the
first time in the history of Ga years, the
county entered upon a scheme of
methodicaI highway improvement.
Starting at the city limits of Daven-
port, and thence proceeding country
ward, five principal roads have so far
been taken up and others are on the
list for this season and will soon be
reached. Each of these roads is being
| operated upon for a distance of three
to five miles. In all, as the plans for
this years work now stand, about %
miles of new highway are to be built
this fall. This aggregate will be so
distributed that it will carry the tray
eler about five miles out of town on
each of seven or eight main lines of
road.
The first thing to secure is the grade.
Sometimes there is considerable hill
cutting to do and sometimes there is
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- foot roadway on hills of ) per cent.
gradient and over. This road is now
costiuu the couutv only = trifa over
n cents q IineaI foot or about 81 S0O
mile, There is 4 LARGE difference
between this figure and the r.. 5O0 10
81. 500 which estimates prove TO he -
reasonable eypectation Of the cost of
macadam or brick for roadways that
are considerably narrower II means
that road fund can be made +o uo
twice ms far ms if has been evpected
to go
OF course labor is eliminated as far
as possible. The loading of the gravel
is placed under contract at the rate of
8 cents a cubic yard. The contractor
W baal S.ronarS \rbtrb nra do