Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-08
OFFICIAL ROUTING
WILL Be SETTLED
Road Men Convene at Rock Island
Club to Decide Contest on the
Diagonal Trail.
MEETING IS HELD AT ANDovER
A. f. Nissen and Mayor Thompson,
Milan Pleased With Spirit Shown
BY the Farmers.

Official routing Of the Diagonal
Trail from Orion to Cambridge will
be decided at a meeting this afternoon
at the Rock Island club, attended by
Mayor Hartz, Wyoming, director for
the Rock Island-Peoria section of
the trail; S. w Searle, supervisor for
the entire division and A E Nissen.
A spirited contest for recognition
between rival roads has been in pro-
gress for weeks. The lower route is
through Lynn Center and Andover and
the upper by way of Osco The for
mer is shorter but the latter is on the
Logan-Lee highway so that farmers
living on each line have been urging
their claims.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Nissen and
Mayor Thompson, Milan, drove over
the two routes to secure the coopera-
ton of farmers in the good roads
movement. They first went over the
old coal mine road between Milan,
Coal Valley, Champion and Orion on
the LoganLee highway.
Meeting at Andover.
At AndOver mass meeting of farm
ers in the interest of the Diagonal
Trail was held at 4:30 in the after
noon at which time Mr.. Nissen made
the proposition that if that commun-
ity would raise One-half of the funds
necessary to oil the II miles of road
from Orion TO Cambridge, he would
raise the other half. Another meeting
was held last evening at Andover
when the plans for launching a finan-
cial campaign were mapped out.
The boosters then went TO Cam
bridge and came back over the upper
road through CISCO. CISCO is a real live
little community and for two miles
Il e
smooth and level as a pavmeent
The Diagonal Trail buttons arrived
today and this evening Secretary Louis
Savadge Will send out from % to 50 of
them to each director They are to be
given out Tor membership, the fee be
ing 81 year Where % or more of
the buttons are sold, one-half of the
sum secured is TO be retained by the
community and the other half goes to
the association for expenses, espe-
cially the painting of poles.
Want to Paint Poles.
At the meeting this afternoon. Mr..
Nissen Will probably be awarded the
contract for painting poles. He is
willing to furnish the paint and do
all the work for 1912 cents a pole Two
coats of black paint L inches wide,
and a white strip 21% inches wide will
on four poles at each cross road, on
every fifth pole between cross roads
and every pole in each town. He is
to put up danger signs free
He will also ask at the meeting for
the privilege Of erecting at each coun-
~ line on the Diagonal Trail a steel
sign board, 10 by % feet, on which
will be placed the names of and dis
tances to the largest towns on the
road in the county and will serve both
TO boost the highway and towns, as
well as the leading merchants.
Mayor Thompson, Milan, is one of
the Invest road enthusiasts in the
county. He has been largely respOn-
sible for raising a fund OF 5000 which
will be used to gravel the road south
from the railroad tracks.
MaquOketa Is Awake.
On Thursday afternoon a mass meet
ing in the interests of the Burlington
Way was held at MaqLoketa, Iowa
Plans were made to form a Maquoketa
Auto Trail association. Maquoketa is
now on four improved highways; the
Burlington Way, Lincoln Highway;
Eastern Iowa Scenic route and the
Black Diamond route