Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-13
POLK COUNTY CAMPAIGN FOR
cRAvEuEp HIGHWAYS IN.
SPIRES NEIGHeoRs TO AID.
WARREN COUNTY PROPOSES
TO EXTEND IMPROVEMENT
Organization Formed TO Promote Road
From Norwalk to Connection With
Polk County Hishway-state Dairy
Officials. Fighting Efforts Of Big
creamerie. to Secure Favored Rates.
Special TO rimes-Republican.


! Des Moincs, Oct. 13.-How road i'm
provament in one county will stimulate
communities tributary to improved
roads to build connecting links is strik-
ingly illustrated by the formation of
! the Norwalk Good Roads Improvements
| Association for the purpose of build
| ing a graveied road from Norwalk to
!, the Polk county line, to connect with
1.-THE new Polk county road into Des
/ Moines.
/ Polk county is building graveled
! road from the end of the paving on
! South Ninth street south to the War
rem county line. This brings the gravel
road to within three miles of the cor
! porate limits of Norwalk in Warren
county. Enterprising citizens and far
mers living in Norwalk and adjacent
thereto got together the other evening
and organized the Norwalk Good Roads
and Improvement Association for the
purpose of building graveled road to
connect with the Polk county road. The
organization started out with seventy
eight charter members and voluntary
subscriptions We're made at that frs.
meeting totaling $500. D. f. Martens
was elected president. Yesterday Mr.
Martens visited the attorney generals
office to ascertain what steps were es-
sential in going forward with this
work Mr.. Martens probably will call
on the board of supervisors of War
: rem county for assistance The organi-
cation will also put it up To the town
council of Ncrwalk to gravel the road
inside of the city limits which connects
with this main Travelled road to Des
Moines.
If this link of three miles between
the Polk county line and the city of
Norwalk is completed it will give
| continuous surfaced road from Des
Moines to Norwalk, distance of ten
miles.
This just illustrates to me what will
come about all over the state when
once the building of graveled roads
gets under way" declared Henry
Sampson OF the attorney generals Of
flee yesterday after he had discussed
the matter With Mr.. Martens. One
good graveed road deserves another
and with one road as nucleus many
(, connecting lines will be built by neigh
boring communities"
F. NJ. IIuhbell and other officials of
the Des Moines Western railway,
which is the name of the corporation
controlling some terminal lines in the
city Of Des Mcines. We're in conference
with the state executive council yes
terday with reference to property
owned by the railway company at the
south edge of the capitol extension
tract and between East Eighth and
tel
TO control all the property north of
the tracks owned by the railroad and
to prevent any building of warehouses,
etc. which would interfere with the
view of the capitol grounds from the
railroad tracks. The state has about
$4,000 square feet north Of the tracks
in this area. South of the track there
is some $4,000 feet not including th,
streets and alleys which are to be va
Gated. 1t is probable an arrangement
will be perfected whereby the state
will take over all of the property north
of the tracks and the railroad COM
pany that TO the south and an agree
ment reached which will prohibit any
building OF warehouses VI other build
ingS in this area.
State dair: officials are fighting the
proposal of the big centralized cream
cries that the railroad give reduced
rate on carload shipments of dairy
products which would amount to from
10 cents to 20 cents per hundred
pounds. Judge Quarter, of Algona,
former president of the Iowa State
Dairy Association, has been in Chicago
the past few days in the interests of
the small creamery. The hearing is
being held before the interstate COM
merce commission in Chicago. Six
years ago the centralizers proposed
this to the railroads and they turned
it down. Now it is proposed that the
interstate commerce commission order
such a reduction.
The state board of control is in
Knoxville inspecting the inebriate hos
pital and grounds. The discovery of
coal on the farm there is occupying the
attention of the board as it is hoped to
developed {, good mine there.