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


Iowa, that the present public high
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
tersection Of the east and west road
at Sandusky, Iowa, in the northeast
quarter OF section one ~, township
sixty-five (65) 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 NJ,
r. 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. 4 min. west 500 feet; thence
north "a deg. % min. west 600 feet;
thence north 10 deg. % min. west 500
feet; thence north IA deg. 21 min.
west 700 feet; thence north 10 deg 8
min. west 600 feet; thence north 6
deg. 6 min. west 600 feet; thence
north deg. sc min. west 400 feet;
thence north 0 deg. % min. west 26f
feet; thence north 2 deg. s min. west
1873 ftet; thence north deg. 46 min.
west 900 feet; thence north deg. 2
min. east 557 feet; thence north / deg.
l6 min east 1900 feet; thence north
deg. "a min. east sou feet; thence
north 1 deg. 26 min east 1713 feet;
thence north deg. IL min. east 637
feet; thence north 4 deg. 6 min. east
240 feet; thence north 0 deg. 26 min.
east $40 feet; thence north deg. 33
min. east 600 feet; thence north 13
deg. 81 min. east 1000 feet; thence
north 90 deg. 40 min. east $50 feet;
thence north 1S deg. % min. east $50
feet; thence north deg. So min.
east POOL 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-
ton 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
ordered 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 tie 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
Power company, but Hugh l.. Cooper,
vice president, on the 9th day of Aug
ust. 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 C@,
township sixty-tive (65) north in range
five 60 west, Lee county, Iowa,
through place commonly known as
and extending northerly af-
ter intersecting with the present pub
lie highway running north and south
and being westerly of the present rail
road tracks and terminal ting at the IN
tersection of the east and west road
through the original village
of Nashville, now called Galland, near
the middle of section nineteen Q9)
township 66 N. r. west of the fifth
(5th) principal meridian be aband-
oned and vacated and the public
use thereof discontinued, and that a
new public highway westerly of the
relocated right of way of the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
company be located and laid out and
established extending from point at
the northwest corner of the Sandusky
school property situated in the north
east quarter of section one a., in
township sixty-five (65) north in range
five 90 west and continuing in a
northerly direction to the north line
Of said section one ~ along where the