Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-30
TOWNSHIP AGREES
TO PAY ONE half
EXPENSE OF ROAD
South Rock Island Highway
Commissioners in Con-
ference Here.
IMPROVE TWELFTH STREET
Permanent Thoroughfare Desired, but
Funds Are Insufficlent-To
Use Asphalt Binder.

After discussing at some length what
could be accomplished with the
/ Twelfth street road, providing they
had the funds with which to do it, the
city council and the road commission
ers from Rock Island township agreed
to go halves" on the repair of the
roadway, when the matter was brought
up at the session of the commission
at the city hall last evening. The city
commission has already appropriated
$500 for the work.
All sinkholes are to be filed and the
road placed in a condition of good re-
pair for the winter. Both the commits
sion and highway commissioners
agreed that what they could do with
the funds on hand, would be anything
but permanent, anticipating that the
first big rain would commence the I'M
doing of the work.
Charles Guldenzopf and Ed. Jens,
were the two road commissioners pres
ent and they agreed to Immediately as
sist the city in matters pertaining to
the Improvement of the road.
Need Hard Road.
The necessity of a hard road lead
ing from Rock Island through South
Rock Island township was expressed
as great, and it was deplored by the
officials that, owing TO lack of funds,
the improvement planned could only
be temporary
Mr.. Guldenzopf and Commissioner
Reynolds led the discussion. They
agreed to start work at once on filling
the sink holes with a mixture of
crushed stone, sand and asphalt binder
The workmen are TO be furnished by
both the city and the township. It is
estimated that the cost of the repairs
as planned will be between 5000 and
$500.
The opinion OF all was that a per-
manent improvement would be the
best. But when it was realized that
$4,000 more than was on hand would
be required to accomplish this and
then the council backed down and fell |
to discussing the temporary repairs.
Mr.. Guldenzopf advanced the idea !
that 1t would be better to start right !
in now and put in a good hard road. /
raising the bulk of the money by sub .
scription among the local business !
men, The council considered that the 1
Dlan could not be accomplished this
way, and the mayor stated that in case
i hard roads Is installed. il should be
IN Ninth street since that is level and
better adapted to heavy traffic.
Deplored Disregard Roads.
The commissioners from South Rock l
sland township commented on the ut
er Indifference of some people toward
permanent improvement of roads. 1t
vas thought that with the repair of
he road as planned now, that the i'm.
'rovement would be sufficiently lasting
o give the public a fairly good high
'ay temporarily.
Cooperation between the city and
he township is necessary in whatever |
) done for the reason that the street is
he boundary line for two-thirds of the
istance to the cemetery. The recent
? annexed district lies on the west of
welfth street as far south as Brashar
treet. The east side of the street is
till outside the corporation. There /
1re the city and township are jointly
for the maintenance of the
Dad from Eighteenth avenue to Brasil
r street. From Brashar street to the
the macadam is still in fairly [
bod condition but it will also be in
uded in the repair work.