The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-19

Iowa, CnaL the present PUBLIC n1Rn-
way known as the river road follow
Ing along the bank of the Des Moines
rapids canal from the north corpor-
ate limits of Keokuk, Iowa, to the in
of the east and west road
at Sandusky, Iowa, in the northeast
quarter of section one ~, township
sixty-fve t65) north in range five (5)
west be abandoned and vacated and
and that the proposed
highway as petitioned for by the Mis-
sissippi River Power company and as
recommended by the commissioner be
and Is hereby established for width
Of forty (40) feet, as follows. to-wit:
Commencing at point on the north
line Of section "a, township 65 N,
r. S w. seven hundred and fifty (750)
feet east of the northwest corner of
the northeast quarter of said section,
township and range. Thence north
% deg. min. west 500 feet; thence
north "a deg. % min. west 600 feet;
thence north 10 deg. 90 MN. west 500
feet; thence north IA deg. 81 min.
west 700 feet; thence north 10 deg. 8
min. west 600 feet; thence north
deg, 6 min. west 600 feet; thence
north deg. sc min. west 400 feet;
thence north 0 deg. % min. west 267
feet; thence north 2 deg. s min. west
1873 ftet; thence north deg. 46 min.
west 900 feet; thence north deg. q
min. east 557 feet; thence north / deg.
l6 min. east 1900 feet; thence north
deg. "a min. east 500 feet; thence
north l deg. 26 min. east 1713 feet;
thence north 8 deg. IL min. east 637
feet; thence north 4 deg. min. east
240 feet; thence north deg. 26 min.
east $40 feet; thence north deg. 33
min east 600 feet; thence north 10
deg. 81 min. east 1000 feet; thence
north % deg. 43 min. east $50 feet;
thence north 10 deg. % min. east $50
feet; thence north deg. SO min
east 2001 feet; thence north deg.
80 min. east $50 feet; thence north 4
deg. 33 min. east 500 feet to the inter
section of the present highway at
the northwest corner of the school
property in Sandusky, which point is
south 2 deg. 81 min west 657 feet
from the northwest corner of the
northeast quarter of section one, town
ship sixty-five north, range five west
of the principal meridian. Lee coun-
| ty, Iowa.
That said proposed highway as
above described be and the same is
hereby established as recommended
by the commissioner upon payment
by the said Mississippi River Power
company of all costs including the
necessary publication of this resolu-
tion and the final orders and establish.
ment thereof, and that this resolution
shall not be considered as an approval
and acceptance of the work and i'm
provements to be made upon said new
highway under agreement entered In
to between the board of supervisors
and said Mississippi River Power
company and the auditor is hereby
lordered and instructed to notify the
township clerk of Jackson TOWNSHIP
outside the city of Keokuk of the va
cation of the highway as first de
scribed and the establishment of said
highway as herein last described, and
that said proposed highway will be
open for public travel within thirty
days
Resolution
Whereas, The Mississippi River
4 Power company, but Hugh l.. Cooper
vice president, on the 9th day of Aug
lust, 1912, filed petition with the
county auditor of Lee county, Iowa
praying that the highway extending
from the east line of the relocated
right of way of the Chicago, Burling
ton and Quincy railroad company
where said highway runs east and
west in front of the Sandusky school
house situated in section one ~
township sixty-tive (65) north in range
five (b) west, Lee county, Iowa
through place commonly known as
fSandusky and extending northerly at
ter intersecting with the present pub
lie highway running north and south
and being westerly of the present rail
road tracks and terminating at the in
1 tersection of the east and west roat
Iextending through the original village
of Nashville, now called Galland, neal
the middle of section nineteen Q9)
township &C N. R. a west of the fifth
| (5th) principal meridian be aband
oned and vacated and the public
Iuse thereof discontinued, and that {
new public highway westerly of the
relocated right of way of the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
company be located and laid out ant
established extending from a point al
the northwest corner of the Sandusky
school property situated in the north
east quarter of section one %, il
township sixty-five (65) north in range
five (5) west and continuing in 6
northerly direction to the north line
of said section one "a along where the
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