Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-06
NTERURBAN TO GRUNDY CENTER
AND TO ELDORA WILL BE BUILT

AND TO ED
NarshaIltown once voted a tax %
per cent for ave years for An inter-
urban road to Grundy Center. Had the
,road been built It would have increased
taxes in Marshalltown 10 mills per an
mum ana would have been considered
. good investment
a modern interurban can now be
built under the Iowa law from Mar
0halltown to Grundy Center and then
extended to Eldora for tax Of half Of
! mill per annum for ten years. This
10 one-twentfeth part Of the per cent
levy once voted Do We want Il?
Today . motor truck hauls SIX tons
OF freight per load from Marshalltown
to LIE Grand when the roads are good
and frequently hauls thirty passengers
to the load on special trips.
In New York City motor buses have
been competing successfully with street
cars ct 1o-csnt fares and now q new
company with 4S,00e,01o OF money il
asking for franchise to operate motor
I.huses at cent fares.
II the road from Marshalltown to
GFundy Centersand Eldora were paved
In the center as one- third Of the states
are now paving their rural roads, motor
buses would make the trip from either
town to Marshalltown in one hour and
half. winter or summer, and motor
trucks would haulsteu tons to the load.
Not only this butsauto and team traffic
within district ten miles wide and
forty miles long, including the three
county seat towns. would nave a paved
track every day.in the year.
The Cost.
What would be the cost! Sixty FIVE
dollars per amman for ten years for
owners Of quarter sections facing the
paved street. $39 per annum for owners
OF the quarter sections next back, $50. so
for the next, and e26 for the next. Then
Marshall and Hardin counties would
have to levy half of !. mill per annum
each. which Is only one twentieth as
much as the l per cent levy voted once
In Marshalltown. Gr,Indy would have
to levy a 1-mill tax and both Marshall
and Grundy counties would have to
use one-third of their auto tax money
for ten years. while the boosters in
Marsha1ltown, Eldora. Grundy Center
and N between would have to sign up
500 bonus subscriptions at $40 each for
te1 years. Th;s would connect all three
county seat towns with a paved street
good for twenty-five years Of service.
It win positively be built Of gravel or
concrete within the next five years.
The Law and the Plan.
The direct road to Grundy Center
measures twenty-eight and one-half
miles, twenty miles Of which constitute
the direct road to Eldora and St. Paul.
It'll oil
Marshall county and seventeen and a
half miles Of it in Grundy county. A
paved center of concrete, as adopted
by the state engineers Of California,
Illinois and New York. and as laid near
fourteen feet wide. Under chapter 95
OF the code II the owners Of a majority
OF the acres to be taxed would petition
for q special road Improvement district
comprising the lands within two miles
OF this road. on each side, the super
vtsors OF each county could create the
district. assess half the cost to the
land owners benefited and give them
ten years in which to pay their assess
mentg The supervisors could also levy
a speee19rtax'upufsan properkY within
each County including that Of the
townswith which to pay the other half.
suppose they should do it? Each
Quarter section of land AUDITING the
road would pay $50 per annum special
paving tax, plus SIS interest, or SOS
per annum. Each quarter section Of
land next back would pay s39 per an
mum paving tax and interest: the next
quarter section $3.50 per annum and
the next $26 per annum This would
raise In ten years $500 per mile On the
principal and pay per cent interest.
Half of 1 mill levied in Marshall
county. which would be no more than
we HOW pay for our county insane, and
only one-sixth Of the present bridge
levy. added to third of the auto
tar. and in Grundy county mill plus
one-thard the auto tax, would almost
pay for each countys half Of the ex-
pensS "A bonus raised Of 800 subscrip-
tons at SO per annum for ten years
would pay the balance.
E1dora Could Join,
II Eidora wanted to join in and ex-
tend the paved road all the way from
the court house at Marshalltown and
from The court house at Grundy Gem
ter to her court house, it would involve
five miles more in Grundy county and
six miles - Hardin. The same assess
ments against the lands benefited
would pay half Of the cost. while half
OF mill general levy in Hardin county
would pay that countys cost, and Ell
dora. and Marshalltown could easily
raise another bonus Of 800 subscrip-
tions at SO per annum each for ten
years to, relieve Grundy county on her
excessive mileage. Farm owners bene-
Ated. but not taxed. would sign these
subscriptions.
This would give us paved road
from Marehalltown to Grundy Center
and Eldora. Automobile buses would
make the trip from either place winter
or summer in an hour and q half,
while snotor trucks could easily haul
ten tons Of freight over it even in the !
spring thaw. The long coveted inter-
urbaA would be in operation, while
every one travelling by auto over the
northern route. or every one going to
sititsf county seat town by auto. car
risge. or wagon, could use the road.
II would be paid for in ten years and
woum easily last twenty-five. years |
without much repair.
state Center, Ls0rand and Gilman.
Chapter IS. Of the code, provides that
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