Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24
CITY. Takes LAND
TO WIDEN TURNS
MOTOR CLUB BUYS TRACTS At
TWECFTH AVENUE AND Me-
vADA FOR ROAD.
CITY WILL USE LAND
TO WIDEN STREET
Motor Club Committee Secures Prom.
Use Of City That Council Will Dedi-
cate Land For Road Purposes
Pavement to Be Laid as Specified,
But Curves May Be Paved Later.

Except as to changing the pavement
nue. and Nevada streets, the project
promoted by the Marshall County Mo-
tor Club to widen and round the turns
is to be carried out. The motor club
has bought the land, and deeds for a
tract fifty feet square at each corner
were to be made by City Solicitor F. E..
Northup today. transferring the proper
ty to the city.
i To complete the transaction insofar
as acquiring the corners for road pur-
poses is concerned, the city council has
agreed to accept the deeds and dedi-
cate the land for road purposes. Moth
ing has as yet been determined regard
ing the widening of the pavement at the
| turns. So.
Road Will Be Widened.
| The council has agreed that, in ded-
icating the purchases for road purposes
the city will widen the curves either by
grading the turns beyond the pavement,
or graveling the road at the turns.
This will answer7the purpose temper
arily of easing the curves. The city has
agreed to put the curves in condition
for travel as soon as the pavement is
| laid.
| The pavement WILL however, be laid
as specified originally. 1t will be put
down on the short turns at the corners,
and the roadway that the city will pro-
vide over the purchased property will
cut inside the pavement at the corners.
Can Be Paved Later.
| The pavement will be laid as speci-
fled, because to change the pavement
by widening it at the curves would af-
| feet the whole paving district. To ac-
complish this without risk of legal con-
test required that the consent of the
paving contractors and all the property
owners of the district be procured.
When Secretary Johnson, of the mo-
| tor club. started to secure the consent
of the property owners. he found that
many of them lived out of the city and
it was not possible to get their consent
in time not to delay the pavement. With
this obstacle in the way of getting the
pavement changed at once, the motor
club went ahead with the project as far
as was possible.
Get Corners Anyway.
To prevent building on the corner
tracts that would obstruct the view, the
Marshall County Motor Club decided
| to acquire the tracts at once.
| 1t would be possible to lay the pave
| ment to widen the curves at once and
| pay for it out of the city'ss improve
ment fund and not charge the cost
| against the property in the district. The
paving company has pointed out that
this would require especially curved ar
NOR plate for the edges of the expan-
sion joints where the additional pave
! ment butts up to the edge of the curve
| at the corner. and this ar-rnor plate can
| not be secured without some delay. The
city may decide to have the> pavement
| laid, but probably not this year.
The motor club has agreed to pay
| C. c. Milhiser and Fl. o. Hyatt each
| 500 for the fifty foot square tracts.
| The committee that arranged for the
city to accept the land and dedicate it
for road purposes was George w. OAR
ling, A. E. Nickel. J. L. Williams, H. A.
kinnan and A. c. Buchanan.