The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-14

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Hamilton and the township OF Mon
tebello ought to be left to the city
council and the highway commission
ers to decide after conference. The
meeting agreed with this view.
Attorney Wood replied to John A.
Gordon that the city has the power
under recent law to appropriate
money to build good roads leading
from the country into the city.
1t was stated that the apportion-
ment would be raised by the civic
corporations involved in the usual rou-
tine way without any trouble.
Increase Width Of Road.
Clarence r. Hambleton, whose fam
! lily will have about mile of the road
through it's lands, made the motion
for the adoption of the resolution that
the width of the road be sixty feet,
and Paul Marie made the same mo,
ton at practically the same time, re-
marking that he would be glad to do
nate sixty or eighty feet of right
of way. Later, Mr.. Marie, in connec-
ton with another topic, said that he
would be willing to give hundred
feet of width through his barn asking
only reasonable time TO move the
barn.
Mr.. Hambleton said the increased
width makes no real difference to the
! land owners. and the road will be
sixty feet wide some time anyhow;
that the increased width will make
/ the road look better and that is
worth while from it's effect on proper
| ty values.
| Mayor Neal Dougherty called at
tention to the fact that it is likely
trolley line will be wanted there
/ before many years and then the extra
twenty feet will come in very han
Oily.
Only One Like European Road.
G. P. Dadant who was born in
Europe said this is the first road he
ever saw in America that will look
like a road in Europe where they
have real roads built right He said
| the steep slopes on the blur side for
part of the distance will require wild
er, larger drainage to carry off the
dirt washing down, and this is an
other reason for making the road wild
err than forty feet.
Henry Vieth asked on which side
the additional twenty feet will come
and was answered that while it prob
ably would be divided between both
sides, that makes little difference
because the road is to be located
where it will best suit the land owner
where this can be done without
marked joys.
4 All these land owners and others
including VIM. M. Powers, favored the
sixty-foot width and promised to do
;. nate the right of way cheerfully
Mr.. Hambleton announced that he
had telephone authority from G.
Pond, the owner of a tract of lant
along the road, to commit Mr.. Pond
of Keokuk, to the same thing.
Trying to Satisfy All Owners.
tThe only fence that will satisf.
farmer is one he builds himself,
said one of them at the meeting, an,
this seemed the controlling idea il
the passage of the resolution abou
the fences, which was adopted on me
ton of Mr.. Hambleton who has mucl
more fence line than any other owne
on the dozen miles of the road be
tween Hamilton and Nauvoo.
Considerable time was spent o.
this topic, and the discussion too
a wide range with many question
asked as to details.
1t was brought out that the watel
power estimates include line G
fence along the whole road, but i
the farmers take over this fencine
the money will be spent elsewhere o
the road itself Also, that the fill.
curves and other dangerous place
are to be fenced, with the waite
power money spent for strong guar
rails there.
In the discussions, it was brougI
out several times that since the waite
power company has paid for the acr
age of the present road along muc
of the route the land owners are nc
really doing too much by giving
new right OF way without charge.
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