The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-08
AGREE TO BUILD.
Wabaunsee and Shawnee Com.
missioners Meet.
Will Build Road Two Miles West
Of Dover.
OVER MISSION CREEK.
Will Have to Build S0-FOot
Bridge.
VineWoed Park Company Ask
Big Damages for Road.
OVER MISSION CREEK.

Inc BOARD of county commissioners
OF Wabaunsee county. consisting of B.
Buchh' chairman. D. C. Robinson and
William Uhlrig held a conference with
the Shawnee board this morning in
the matter of the opening of one and
haH miles of road between the two
counties about two miles west of Dover
and involving the structure of an so
1901 bridge across Mission creek
AS the chief satisfactory result of
TIE session, the Wabunsee board agreed
to build the so foot superstructure of
sIset ana the concrete floor of the
Dr1dge' Shawnee building the two piers
and abuttments of about Is feet high
shawnee had hoped to be able to use
their old bridge at Dover, moving it
TO the new location in order to build
a better structure at Dover Their
proposition would have been to use it,
WabunSee building the piers and a 80
loot approach, as the Dover bridge is
but 90 feet long. But Waubaunsee Of
fered alternative propositions, one to
let shawnee use the Dover bridge pro-
Vldlng 1t be strengthened sufficiently to
carry concrete floor and they would
Dullo the three piers necessary, the 9TH
er to build a one span steel superstruc-
ture the entire length with Shawnee
constructing the piers. The latter was
accepted as the old bridge can be used
equally as we'll in the neighborhood
when the new Dover bridge is built
1t is conceded that Wabaunsee is in
curing Tar the greater expense but the
commissioners made their propositions
stating that they recognized the road
was of much more value to their county
than to Shawnee.
The opening of the road and the good |
bridge will mean much to the farmers |
OF Waoaunsee who must drive the long
distance to Willard, the nearest rail-
road station, and for whom it will |
shorten the route several miles.
The damages to land owners of Shaw
nee as granted by the viewers was
placed at 1926 and then cut to $3.50 by
the board. The estimated cost of the
Shawnee end of the road is $1,10O to
$1,000.
bikes at Silver Lake Giving way.
+ That the bikes built along the Kaw
opposite OF near Silver Lake are of
doubtful strength to withstand the
power of the current of high water is
the opinion of T. L. Campbell, the man
fault of the constructor who built
them exactly asfCspecified and did
beautiful job, but nof the sandy loan
soil which was piled into the, shape of
a veritable fortress.
Campbell on Good Roads.
II fail to see how the bikes will hold
unless they are riprapped,s' said Mr..
Campbell, who held a consultation
with the county engineer this morning.
AT one point on the johnson place
where formerlyPthe current ate out the
sand pockets under the soil above, let
ting the land for several hundred
yards deep fall into the river. 1t seems
to me that this same sandy dixie will
suffer the same washing away when
the high water strikes it."
Mr.. Campbell has been working OH
dixie construction along the Kaw ever
since May. His outfit is now situated
a few miles from Topeka and he in
tends to bid on the West Sixth street
road before leaving.
His home is at Fort Scott where he
has long been a foreman on construc-
ton gangs and built the concrete cap
for the big dam across the Marmaton
river which supplies the city water.
Speaking of good roads, Mr.. Camp |
bell cited the system of his own city,
Fort Scott.
In Fort Scott" he said, that is in
Fort Scott township, SO miles of rock
ton which will make the total finish
ed this fall 40 miles. There are seven
Of these rock roads reading into Fort ]
Scott from the township lines. The
city property is taxed the same the
county for these roads and as a mat
ter of fact pays 76 per cent of the cost |
Of them. There is a big fight coming
up about the matter of city folk pay ]
ing for the roads of the farmers but {
they are all built now.
1.-THE project now on down there is
towns making Fort Scott the center
of a circle of smaller towns. These
rock roads ares-tested when finished
by taking a rock the size of your two
fists and throwing. It on the surface
In front of oneggof the heavy rollers. ]