Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-16
70 Make HAR|D ROADS
Repre- sentative Gathering Thurs
day Evening Forms Good
Roads Association.
Objects are General Highway
Improvement and Especially
the Mar'on Road.

Soliciting Committees Appointed
..Hope to Bring Experts
Here.
The good roads meeting, in the east
court room Thursday evening, launched
the Nicholson ford road improvement
fairly and with prospects Of almost GER
tain success. A representative gather
ing of Marshalltown business men and
interested farmers We're In attendance
and the interest displayed was of a
nature that forecasts success. They
proceeded Immediately to business and
formed permanent organization to be
known as the Marshall County Good
was elected president, Joseph Hoffmeyer
vice president, F. G. Pierce secretary
and j. F. Meeker treasurer. The above
named officers, with Joseph Coates, form
the executive council of the association.
A committee, consisting Of Messrs. G. p.
Kirby, j. F. Meeker and F. G. Pierce,
was also appointed to devise some place
for the permanent organization of the
association and prepare for adoption
rules for conducting its business. This
was done looking toward the probable
Incorporation of the company without
pecuniary profit.
In obedience to motion adopted by
the association a committee of three was
appointed to solicit funds in the county
for the building of the road. This COM
mittee consisted of Joseph Hoffmeyer,
j. L. Nicholson and j. l.. Coates. q. F.
Kirby, ]. F. Meeker and c T. LaPlant
were selected as soliciting committee
for the city.
The subscription papers which 1t is
Intended to circulate show the action of
The board of supervisors in granting ST.
500 Of road tax conditionally and of the
City council in concurring, the charac-
ter and extent of the proposed improve
ment, it's probable cost and the condi-
tions under which the subscription is
made. 1t recites in measure the plans
end specifications of the work thus:
Whereas. On the 1st day of July 1901.
the board Of supervisors of Marshall
county, Ia, passed the following resolu-
ton:
BE it resolved, That fifteen hundred
Isl, 500.000) dollars of the county road
fund raised within the city of Marshall-
town be appropriated for Improving
East Marian street providing the coun-
Gil of the city of Marshalltown consents
to the same. and agrees to grade that
| part of said road within the city limits
and that sufficient sum Is subscribed
| to complete tine Improvement of said
4 road to the Nicholson bridge"
And whereas, The city council of Mar
shalltown. Ia, on the Goth day of July,
| 1901, concurred in said resolution by pas
| sing the following resolution:
Resolved by the city council OF Mar
| shalltown. Ia, that the city council con-
| cur in a resolution passed by the board
of supervisors June 18th, 1901 relative to
raising funds for improvements to be
made on Marion street road, and that a
certain resolution passed by this COUNCIL
relative to this Improvement is hereby
| rescinded,
And whereas also. the estimated cost
of making said movement sixteen feet
! in width, with bottom course six inches
\ thick of spawl stone, the second course
| three inches thick of crushed stone,
| both we'll rolled, and top course OF
! gravel or cinders three inches thick, be-
1 ing in all sixty yards per hundred feet
or road estimated at one dollar 1.00) per
| square yard delivered on road with
| one hundred dollars for supervision and
| five hundred dollars for grading in the
sum of SIS. 310
| Now therefore we, the undersigned
| agree to pay on demand the sum set
| opposite our respective names to the
| treasurer of the Marshall county good
roads association for the purpose of
| grading, macadamizing and building
said road substantially in accordance
1 with the estimates above set forth from
| the Nicholson Ford bridge to eighty (S0)
| rods west of the city limits on the east,
provided enough money, with that OBJ
/ tanned from the county of Marshall and
| the city of Marshalltown can be raised
on this subscription to improve said
road herein provided.
4 Dated at Marshalltown, Ia, this 18th
day of August. A. D., 1901
That the soliciting committees will
meet with liberal response has been
already assured. Several business men
have already announced thfr intention
| to start the lists with 800 donations,
| as have several of the weaithiest farm
ers. Business men and farmers alike
are Interested in the work. There is
no piece of road in the county where so
many interests common to city and
county center. The city sewage dis
posal plant lies on Its route, as does
the grounds of the Country club. The
road taps Marion and Vienna town
ship and leads trade to the city from
the southern portion of Grundy county.
The Rockton quarries lie along its line
and the whole northwestern territory
from which Marshalltown draws trib-
ute leads into the city by way of this
road. When tie total embargo of last
spring put upon trade and delivery of
produce from that section by bad roads
/ is taken into consideration the import
ance OF the proposed movement becomes
particularly. prominent.
County Surveyor Bremner last spring
made preliminary survey of this road
and reported it susceptible of drain
age. and the estimates of the probable
| cost of the road are based on his sur
ey. Many figures have been submit
ted by j. Q. Saint, who is familiar with
| the Indiana methods of hard road max
ling. From these estimates and figures
it is thought the road vii cost within
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