The Holt County sentinel., 1913-03-21
Road Overseers' Annual
Meet.
Continued from page I

ONctSectS uIu uOt Secui W Tcdiiac tuc
Importance Of working the roads to
their full width, and the result was
they were too narrow, and not sui.
ficjently wide to furnish the necessary
drainage, and the only solution was to
take heavy grader and 10 into the
banks and keep the road its legal
width, and thus force the water from
the main portion, and keep them well
crowned, and II kept crowned, the
drainage would be to the sides and
not down the middle Of the road
Keep the water out of the roadway
was the slogan. When the road was
laid out at 10 feet--that is the width
that should be maintained, and II any
obstruction Is maintained to inter.
fere with the maintenance Of that
width the overseer should see 10 IL
that 1, was done away with. The
longer the slope the wider the road
should he. The overseer's paramount
issue was TO keep his roads drained.
They believed II was the true econo.
my for the county to build steel
bridges and concrete culverts-be.
cause they were the most perma.
nent, and substantial and hence In the
long run the most economical
The Highway Engineer impressed
the oyerseers, that when buying lum.
Der and material, they must in all
cases certify the same to him, giving
prices and all particulars relating TO
the purchases, and this lac insisted on
being done promptly and without de.
lay !, was also impressed upon them
that when old material was taken
from bridge, they were the sole Gus.
todian of the material and IL belonged
TO the district. and was not the prop.
er,y of whoever saw III TO haul IL
away. There were some who seemed
10 think IL vas no crime TO help
themselves TO county bridge property.
and that they had a free license to
help themselves. lie insisted that
the ovcrSccis would bc held RESPONSE.
ble for the Old material taken from
bridges IN their respective districts.
There was always some of this ma.
icrial that could bc again used. and II
taken care If would save money for
the district.
Tie question Of wages for man and
team for work done ON the roads was
discussed, and they varied from 500
to ~. bu, the Highway Engineergaye
the oycrsecrs 10 understand that hc
would no, stand for any such eX.
horbitant price Of - cents an hour,
and warned them that they must
keep the price within reason.
The question was asked ~ To the
division Of a road district where II
began and where II ended. Tine
County Engineer read the following
order madeby the County Court at its
February term, lsS2. and which has
never been rescinded;
"Ordered that all roads tia, are on
the line dividing any two road dis.
tricts, running east and west, the
east half shall belong To the district
north, and the west half TO the dis
,ricl south: also all roads that are on
u line between any two districts. run
ming north and south. the south half
shall belong TO the district, and the
north half Ia the district west"
Those attending the meeting were;
Dist.
w. Colwell.
ii u. {, Kuhn.
W. II. bowel.
T.. W. Gregory,
II W. Is. Fitzgerald,
- |. =, Jones.
u willard Stockwcll.
~ Sylvester Lock.
25-philip Thurman.
M-N. &. karncs,
81 Earl karneS.
- +. l.. Williams.
~ Ed, Shull.
~ j. u. Morris.
iO-C. &. Brown.
A-Frcd Kramer,
~ W. J. Glass.
+s-M. X, Wright.
"a. ". VanCamp.
- -Thos. Foley.
Sd. A. Milne,
Gd +. NJ, Morris.
GS-Allen brock.
Corning Aug. Shredder.
Craig-S. II. Thompson.
Forest City--Wm. Fiiznaurice.
Maitland Frank Gibson.
Mound City-U. s. Shawpo.