The Glenwood post., 1906-03-10
DEMAND BRIDGE
NEAR Silt
County Commissioners Urged to Span
Grand River for Benefit of FARM
erS on Divide Creek and
Adjacent Territory.
HAVE AGREED TO START WORK

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busy lot this week and held lively
session although the most of their
work. was of routine character con-
Asidering few complaints as to taxes
and the allowance of bills.
The session of Monday was especially
interesting, as the board on that day
was waited on by delegation Of
farmers, from the Divide creek country
and another crowd from the Antlers
and Silt neighborhood and they all
with one accord demanded bridge
across the Grand river at or near the
Silt station.
A large scope of country was rep
resented and among the petitioners
were some of the best men in Garfield
county The Post doubts if better
class of men can be found in any
farming community than the sturdy
ranchmen who were this week asking
for bridge across the Grand river.
When Henry Hasley presented pc
titlon signed by 140 citizens who
would be benefited by the bridge he
started something that couldn't we'll
be stopped and there were lively doin's
for the next few minutes.
i. 1t was plain that those who recent
ly petitioned for road to Rife across
>she Cram mesa would oppose the
bridge but Mr.. Cram objected to the
road and Is favoring the bridge. 1t is
claimed that the road will be expen-
sive to build and maintain. while it
will be used by comparatively few.
The people in the Divide and Mamm
creek section have hard way of get
ting to either New Castle or Rife but
claim with a road across the Grand
at Silt they could reach New Castle
or Rifle much easier while their pro-
duce could be shipped from a siding
near the bridge thus saving the long
haul now necessary which prohibits
the growing of potatoes, sugar beets.
melons, ETC., for which their county
is we'll adapted. DR.. Lockard ex-
planned that the bridge would save
him ten miles travel for every load
taken to market. He is seven miles
from New Castle making IA miles for
the round trip. He is two miles
miles for the round trip and the
mathematical demonstration applied
by others was equally convincing. 1t
was claimed that the additional lands
which would be placed under cultiva
tion and the many other improve
ments which would be made would
soon bring enough by way of in
creased taxes to reimburse the county
for the cost of the bridge.
In fact the petitioners put up such
a stiff argument that the county dads
well nigh capitulated at the first sit
eting and they said they would have
done so but for the fact that there is
no money available for bridge work.
They explained that the entire reve-
nues for road purposes would fall
short of the needs for road repairs
which must be attended to. "You
can better afford to slight the roads
than to deny us this bridge was
the answer which came back from the
visitors who, it was evident came up
here determined not to take "no" for
an answer.
The commission then explained
why it was impossible to take any
definite action at this time rs to the
actual construction of the bridge.
They agreed, however, to send the
county surveyor down there to make a
survey and locate site and probably
will later on construct approaches pro-
viding rights of-way necessary are
guaranteed by the farmers in the vi
cinity of the bridge. Then it is hoped
that state appropriation may be se-
cured to complete the bridge.
The commissioners intimated that
if the farmers had mentioned the
matter before the last levy was made
provision would have been made to
construct the bridge from this years
revenues. The action taken by the
board is regarded as a victory for the
farmers and they went home pretty
we'll satisfied.
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