The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-05-14
SUPERVISORS SELECT HIGHWAYS
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the NeWcOm place are the only real
| ly bad places to be overcome between
Deloit and Kiron. They claim boil
of these objections can be done away
with at very little expense. 1t is cite(
that the section line road has far toe
many hills and turns,a land that it viii
require a large amount of money tC
build the road in proper form. we
are not in position to give an opin
ion regarding either of the roads
Both have their good and bad feat
ures. We trust, however, that sat
isfactory agreement may be had by
all parties interested in the roads.
The board has new job on its
hands this year because of new laws
enacted by the last general assembly
in fact the legislature imposed sew.
eral new duties upon the supervisors,
one of the main features of which is
in road matters, while another is in
regard to culvert construction. The
law requires the supervisors to select
main travelled roads which shall be
designated as county roads and their
improvement and maintenance will be
entirely under the supervision of the
supervisors. The mileage so selected
must not exceed Is per cent of the
total road mileage of the county. The
county roads" are to connect the
towns in the county and with main
Travelled roads in neighboring coun-
ties, thus extending the system from
one county on to another.
There is considerable red tape about
the selecting and approving OF the
road system. AS soon as the county
roads are designated, the board of SUI
pervisors must cause said roads to
be plainly marked on map furnished
by the state highway commission.
Said map, after being SO marked, is
deposited with the auditor, and is
open to public inspection. Upon the
map being filed, the auditor is direct
ed to give the public notice Of a
meeting of the supervisors to hear
any protests that may be made against
of the County road" system. At any
time before the holding of such meet
ing any ten freeholders in the county
may file a petition with the auditor
asking for a change in said designat-
ed roads which may be deemed advis-
able, giving their reasons therefor,
said petition to be accompanied by
a plat showing such proposed change
If no agreement is reached between
the supervisors and the petitioners
at the hearing the map, plats, ETC., are
forwarded to the state highway com.
mission at Ames, who must o. K. the
proposed system whether there are
objections or not, before active work
in the permanent road making can be
commenced. Then there will be fur
Their delay in the real road work start.
ing, for before improvements can be
undertaken the county engineer must
make a plat of the roads and complete
a system of grades which again must
go through routine of approval. The
engineers report and plats, when ap-
proved, shall be the basis for the per-
manent road work of the county, both
as to bridge, culvert, tile and road
work. The new law sets forth a lot
of duties for the county engineer who
in Crawford county is Herbert Fishel.
It is of interest to note that all cul-
verts of a span of feet or less may
be classified as road work and may be
paid for out of the county funds.
Hereafter all culvert work will be
in charge of the board of supervisors
and not the township trustees, who
have had that job to look after in the
past, and the work will be more uni
form than in the past. The trustees