The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-21
More Than $4,000 for Better
Highways i'm County.
OF This Amount $4,000 Goes to
Roads Alone.
ORDER MUCH OIL AND GRAVEL
Miles of Highways VIII be
Given a New Dress Soon.
Repair Bills on Culyerts No
Small Item This Year.

Falling j.. line with the movement
which Is sweeping the state from one
end to the other, the good roads pro-
gram of the Shawnee county commls.
sioners for the fiscal year OF 1919 o
is the largest ever mapped out for TINS
county. In all, more than $4,000 VIII
be expended for new bridges, new
gravel and oil roads and road work
in general. OF this amount, $3o,OOO
will be used to erect new bridges IN
all parts of the county The remain
ing $4,000 will be sepnt in repairing
and building highways.
The money isn't going to be spent
lavishly. The commission when con-
sists of Fred Nipps, J. c. Sinner and
BOYD Pollom declares its intention OF
putting the money where it is needed
most and of spending 1t in manner
that will return to the county dol
lars worth of modern highway 1or
every dollar expended
Shawnee county will have the best
roads in the state.
The paving of the West Tenth street
road from the city pavement on Tentn
street to Gage park is one of the big
gest pieces of work that viii be
tackled this year. This work Is prac-
Iically assured.
The road leading north from the
brick yard bridge to the losver Silver
Lake road will be gravelled. RMS
stretch of road is about three-quarters
of a mile in length and when the work
macadam and paved highway from
Gage park to the Silver Lake road.
Oil and Gravel.
The stretch of road, about a quar-
ter of a mile in length, leading from
the east end of the Sardou bridge to
the city limits of Oakland will be COW
cred with gravel Several miles OF the
upper silver Lake road from the Boys
Industrial school west to the macadam
highway Will be oiled. The commits
sioners point out that oiled roads,
where the surface is similar to that of
the upper Silver Lake highway, are
giving satisfaction and the method is
more economical
The county's share of building the
aforementioned highways will run
somewhere between $4,000 and $40
600. Besides all this $4,000 or $685.
900 is to be spent in repairing, and on
the upkeep of the hundreds of miles
of dirt and macadam roads of The
county.
Bridge construction will be much
heavier than usual during the next
year. Swollen waters of Shawnee
county streams during the summer
months played havoc with the bridges.
Build Several Bridges.
bridge known as the Waveland
bridge, four miles west of Wakarusa,
to cost between $1,000 and $4,000, will
be completed during the next year.
Two large forty foot spans are to be
built on the TOpeka-DOVer road and
TWO more OF a similar size Will De
thrown across streams on the East
Fourth street road. A span of major
importance will be built over Butcher
creek on the South Kansas avenue
road.
Two spans, each about forty feet
long, will be built between Valencia
and Dover, over Vassar creek. The
erection of a bridge over Soldier creek
at Grove is being considered. Petit
tions for erection of a structure have
been submitted to the commission.
Another structure to be known as
the Mud Valley bridge will be thrown
across Soldier creek north of Silver
Lake.
Besides the number of large bridges,
dozens of culverts and small struc-
lures ranging from twelve to thirty
feet across are to be erected. Also,
dozens of the old bridges of the coun-
~ are to be repaired. A number of
them will have included on their re-
pair bill a new concrete floor in place
of plankS.