The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-04-17

mention of the good work being done
by Jos. and N. W. Inghram and by
H. S. Cavett. The road by Mr.. Cav
ett's place is as smooth as skating
rink and he keeps it that way during
all the open season. If his brother,
Norry, does as we'll as street commits
sioner of Denison as H. S. does by
his own road the people of this city
will rise up and call him blessed.
Route two, lying for the most part
in East Boyer township, was the next
inspected. This route leaves town by
the Vail road and serves large num-
Der of patrons within the city limits.
Mr.. Ranniger drags the first
stretch of route two and does 1t
we'll, but we were aware the moment
we reached East Boyer township for
there the dragging ceased. The Rol-
Inns road, which last year was one OF
the best in the county, has been en-
tirely neglected this year and it is as
rough a piece of road as could be
found. 1t not only needs dragging very
badly, but the brush should be cut
away and the road widened, giving
the sun and air chance. The roads
OF East Boyer are naturally good,
but the land holdings are large and
in some parts of the township the
houses are far apart; this does not
make for road improvement and we
travelled into the Slater neighborhood
before we reached any sign of drag
ging. There have been several new
bridges and road changes in East
Boyer, and the old bridge near the
Sage farm is now out, making tenn
porary change in the route. There is
q great cut and fill near the new bridge
over the Boyer. This fill is already
badly washed, it is of soft clay and
will need a great deal of attention to
keep it in condition. The cut should
be commenced higher up the hill so
that the grade may be reduced. AS
ii stands at present it will have to
receive the attentio nof the grader
after every hard rain.
East Boyer has divided its road
dragging responsibility into four parts
end so far the system does mot seem
to be working out so we'll as the one
man system in Milford or in Denison
townships. We met one road boss
and dragging supervisor and he ad-
mitted that but few arrangements had
been made in his section for drag
ging. He said that there seemed to
be some misunderstanding between
the farmers and the trustees and the
farmers felt that they were not re-
ceiving sufficient pay and that no
drags were furnished. We do not
care to enter into the merits of the
controversy, but we would remind the
officials that the new law is manda.
tory and that it is their business to
see that the main travelled roads
and the mail routes are properly drag
ged. The law also provides that the
county attorney shall get after those
who fail to do their duty. The road
in front of w. Peiper's would be great
ly improved by cutting the brush and
there is a bad hill near Austin Glib
bons' place. H. G. Lochmiller is evil
IDENTIFY a good man and one of the best
fills we have seen on country road
was in his territory. Formerly this
was one of the worst and most Doggy
places in the township and now it is
one of the first roads to dry. During
the entire trip the inspector was in
terested in the story of how the car
riers made the trip during the snow
bound period. The driver would point
out how he went into the field at such
q place, down ravine through some
ones barn yard, then out on the road
up high bank and into another field
The carriers must have driven two
or three miles for every mile of route
made.
1t was noticed that in nearly every
case where the snow was the Worst
there was underbrush along the side
Of the road or the high weeds had
not been moved The winter roads
can be greatly improved by keeping
the roadsides clear Route two pass
es some of the richest and best kept
farms in the county, it goes over the
ground of the first settlement OF
Crawford county in 1849 and passes