Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-28
ROAD CONTRACTS
AWARDED june IS
State Highway Commission, An.
ticipating UNFOLDING of Tice
Law, Ready to Act.
THIS COUNTY INTERESTED
Survey. Here, as In Number of Other
Counties, compIetedLDeWitt
In Class by Itself.

Firmly believing that the suprem,
| court will sustain the Sangamon cir
cult court in the case of Martens VS.
State Auditor James ]. Brady anc
State Treasurer William Ryan in which
the Tice good roads bill was held con
stitutional and valid, the state highway
commission is preparing to begin work
in earnest as soon as the case is dis
posed of. The case is on the advise.
ment docket of the supreme court for
the June term and decision is expect
ed about June 90.
There is no temporary injunction
restraining the auditor and treasurer
from paying out money from the good
roads fund, but inasmuch as the suit
testing the law requests a permanent
injunction, the highway commission
has decided to spend none of the state
aid fund until the high court acts.
Let Contracts July I.
Nevertheless, all of the organization
and preliminary survey work is being
pushed as. rapidly as possible and
plans are being approved and sent
back to the counties for the action of
board of supervisors. The boards will
be in session June and and the
specifications can then be approved
and arrangements made for the adver
Using for bids. 1t is the intention to
insert advertisements for bids for as
many state aid roads as possible on
June Is. The advertisement must run
two weeks before the contracts can be
let, hence no contracts for work can
be let before July 1.
The plans submitted by IS counties
have already been approved by the
probably will be increased to So or 40.
It is hoped that the advertisements
for contracts for the work in at least
25 counties can be inserted by June
Is and work begun Immediately after
July 1. Some of these counties will
begin work on as many as six or seven
different roads at the same time.
Moose Heart Job First.
Only one piece of state aid road has
been actually commenced. That is at
Moose Heart. where the Order of
Moose built the road with the under
that the state would take il
JNeT. NO was spent OuL VI lHS
state fund.
Surveys have been completed and
plans, profiles and estimates for state
aid roads are either completed or in
course of preparation in the following
counties: Rock Island, Peoria, Sanga- |
non, Saline, Vermilion, Coles, Craw- |
ord, Bond, Madison, Monroe, Living |
ton, Clark, Franklin, Iroquois, DeKalb,
AXE, Kane, Ogle. Cass, Adams, Scott, !
Woodford, Clark, DuPage,
Schuyler, Boone. Champaign, Edgar,
Stark, Cook, LaSalle, Lee, Henry, Car
oil, Marshall, Menard, Lawrence and
LAY, total of 107 miles OF highway.
Preliminary resolutions have been
lied by Pulaski, White, Clinton, Jer-
ey. Macoupin, Fayette, Pike, Tazewell,
Warren, Grundy, Kendall, Winnebago,
IcHenry and Will counties.
Other counties have appointed super
ntendents or are preparing to comply
Nth the Tice law. Dewitt is the only
ounty in the state which has taken no
tep whatever to comply with the law
nd secure a portion of the state aid
und.
One convict camp has been estab.
shed at Deer Park and others are to
9 established shortly.