The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-11-20
BLACK AND YELLOW
TRAIL GlVESSTRONG
PLEDGE OF SUPPORT
From Tuesdays Daily.

OF speedy improvement OF the road
running between Mankato and Mic
ollet, a portion of the Black and
Yellow trail, at tire meeting and BAN
quet of the Mankato Commercial club.
held at the Hotel Heinrich last even
ing. These three were Charles Jack
son, ]. A. Schuck and J. b. Summers.
That Is a majority of the county
board. II Is thus confidently expected
that an Improvement that will much
benefit Mankato and North Mankato,
as well as the farmers of that part
OF Nicollet county. will become an
accomplished fact in the not very
distant future.
For this meeting Secretary f. F.
Soaring had extended invitations to
the entire Nicollet county board, the
Blue Earth county board, prominent
farmers of Nicollet county located
in the vicinity of Mankato and
others who were interested i'm the
work of the club. II was a splendid
meeting. In order to provide enough
room for all to be served, II was nee
essary TO use not only the main
dining room of the hotel, but an ante
room as well.
Swartout Hill Improvement.
judge Lorin Cray, chairman of the
committee on good roads, stated that
about the only thing that had been
accomplished, in which the commit
tee had a hand since the last meet.
ing was the improvement OF Swartout
hill Here twenty per cent grade
had been reduced TO ten per cent.
For the help of this improvement
the committee on behalf of the club
had donated seventy dollars
The judge spoke of the recent au.
toniUbile trip over the Black and yell
low trail 10 Tracy and black. He
said he was greatly impressed with
what had been done in counties 10
the west and he felt the work i'm
this vicinity was not keeping pace
with what those other counties. that
were not so rich, were doing. He re-
marked that several members of the
Nicollet county board and other
leading men of that county were
present. lie thought something
should be done to improve the road
running from Mankato to Nicollet.
Prospects in Niooiiet County.
F. Z. Jefferson of Belgrade said he
and other people of his neighborhood
hoped by the latter part of next
summer to see the road between
Mankato and Nicollet substantially
improved Hels said he had been &C
cused by some of his st. Peter
friends of being in o favor of what
7 would benefit Mankate. sbut the fact
was that he wanted to have good
road in which to come to Mankato
to do business. He was only seven
miles from Mnnkato and It was more
convenient for Him to trade here
than In StmPeter! He remarked that
( under the '.Flwell road law, the as.
sessment that would o., substantially
improve the road would be only
forty-five dollars for, a, quarter sec
tion. Any farmer should be willing
to pay such an assessment as that.
III. A. Hanson OF Belgrade re-
marked that he was about the only
farmer that went on that automo.
bile trip 10 Tracy and he was great
ly impressed with what had been
done on the Black and Yellow trail
in the west and he thought 1t would
be splendid thing to have as good
road from Nicollet to Tracy. He
thought the sooner the good road
was produced the better II would
be for the farmers located along IL
! Judge GRAY here spoke on behalf
of Charles Busby of Belgrade, de-
claring that he likewise was in favor
of going right ahead with the i'm
provement OF that road.
They Want the Improvement
W. g. Clark of Nicollet said the
people OF his vicinity wanted the
Improvement las proposed under the
Elwell road law. He lid not think n
single farmer of Belgrade or Nicol-
let WIS against that project. He had
not known one of them ever to say
a word against 1t.
w. ii. Sharp, mayor OF North Man
kato. said he was satisfied that all
OF the people of the village were in
favor of getting that road improved
In its present condition II was al.
most impossible for two automobiles
to pass each other on II.
J. p Summers Of Nicollet. county
commissioner, said the county board
bad been getting engineers to ex.
anime the report on the road, and
IL was the intention of the board to
have thr road built into a respect
able highway as soon as possible.
]. A. Schuck of Oashawa, county
commissioner, remarked that he be-
lieved the road would be built by the
county board during the coming
summer. but he was in favor Of look
ing carefully after the drainage.
Much money had been spent in road
work and results had proven unsatis.
factory because of the lack of proper
drainage. He favored improving
roads under the Elwell law.
No Doubt Of Improvement.
Charles Jackson of st. Peter,
chairman OF the Nicollet county
board. declared there was no doubt
at all that the road would be Inn
proved.
Henry Robel, Sr., observed that
the drainage of a road was matter
OF extreme Importance. When the
water was allowed to stay on a
l.rcad. there was no road at all.
John II. Hohmann. chairman OF
the Blue Earth county board. gave
an exceedingly interesting account OF
the work that had been accomp-
lished by the Blue Earth board on
. roads during the year just coming to
q close, thirty-two miles having been
graded and eight miles graveled. At
the same time he showed that the
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