Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-12-01
.EDDYvILLE WANTS
Blue GRASS ROAD
NElGHBORING CITY INTENDS TO
GET IN ON RlVER-TO-RlvER
HIGHWAY.

GET IN ON RlvER-To-RlvER
HIGHWAY.
Eddyville. Nov. 0.-(Special.) AN
enthusiastic meeting Of the Eddyville
Commercial club was held Monday
night to boost the proposed river to
! river road via Eddyville and big
turnout resulted.
The meeting was called to order by
President George Hartman and was
addressed by number of representa-
tive citizens of Eddyville and vicinity,
the cause of good roads and the river
to river route receiving a substantial
boost. The reports of support and
encouragement from Abba and OF
tumwa enthusiasts was especially in
spring. Eddyville's position on the
map was succiently stated by Mayor
Roberts as follows:
"Eddyvflle wants the Blue Grass
road established and established over
the only logical route; the great ma
tural throughfare that has been es-
tablished since time immemorial, first
as an Indian trail, afterwards as gov
cessfully by Indian traders. Mormons
enroute to Salt Lake, forty-niners
California bound, Pixies Peakers and
emigrants and settlers all over the
great west as the easiest. the most
direct, and the best route, offering
fewer obstacles, lower gradient and
q better roadbed than any other lead
ing in this direction, this road should
run west via Eddyville over the
Charlton road.
'The farmers along this route are
prosperous and progressive and fully
alive to the inestimable value of good
roads.
"This progressiveness is today
evinced by the massive causeway,
halfmile long. across the Des Moines
bottom at Eddyville, built by dona-
tions of labor and popular subscription
and by cooperation between the farm
ers and citizens benefited thereby,
and just completed at cost Of $4,000.
.'Blakesburg wants this road and
wants it because her greatest need is
a good road. The person who built
the Blakesburg road made just one
mistake. There is a quarter mile
stretch just west of town where he
might have crowded in another hill
They claim that the Blakesburg route
is about two miles shorter than Che
Eddyville route. 1t is four IL you strike
an air line: and il was establish
ing an airship hurdle race would send
it over the Blakesburg route as the
aviators would have to fly high to
keep from being impaled by hill top.
But when you tally the ups and downs
by running over it in a buzz cart, the
speedometer shows forty furlongs
further for the Blakesburg route.
s'To negotiate these hills and the
more easily to follow the curves and
hollows of the Blakesburg airline, the.
natives commonly have their vehicles
fitted with egg-shaped wheels, the
long arm Of the goose egg also gives
better leverage in prying the wheels
out of the rut when they get stuck in
the damp atmosphere and rich red
road bed, otherwise this road is all
right"
Before the meeting closed the presi-
dent appointed o. H. Seifert, Frank
Epperson and L. L. McCord COM
mittee to keep in touch with the situa-
ton as it developed and to confer
with other towns regarding the
establishment of this road.
To The Public.
The Richie Culvert Co., will still do
business in Ottumwa, with Lewis Pep
pers in charge of the Ottumwa Office.
To correct the impression that we are
out of business, this announcement is
necessary. All orders and communica-
lions will be given careful and prompt |
attention at Muscatine. Iowa. We ex-l
pect to be in business just so long as |
there is demand for sheet metal.
Yours For Business,
Richie Culvert Co.
Muscatine, Iowa.