Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-05
SUPERVISORS IMPROVING NORTH
THIRD AvENUE-REJEcT IL.
GRAND GILMAN GRADING.
LYNCH AND NICHOLS
KILL JONES' PROPOSAL
~Lensssus eiii" Jones Proposes to
Grade Permanently County Road to
Gilman-Rsseiution Eaiis Of Second
supervisors viii Build Seventy.
Fivs Nero Bridges and culvsrts.

Supervisor Jones' resolution Thursday.
70 advertise for bids upon grading the
county road from LeGrand to Gilman.
was refused a second by the other two
members. II was Mr.. Jones desire to
use some Of the current road fund for
permanent work and md out just what
1t would cost TO put one stretch OF
road 10 permanent grade once, for
Marshall county has not Put one mile
of its lSs miles to permanent grads
In two years of expenditure, His res
oiu,ion to try out the LeGrand- Gilman
road was squeiched.
+ On the other hand the board has in
s,ructed the county engineer to have
grared put upon the natural grade Of
the North Third avenue road for half q
mile from the city limits north. and
the engineer has been instructed 80
prepare estimates for seventy Ave
more bridges. '..
jones 10 Turned Down.
The resolution for grading as intro
duced by Jones read as follows.
Whereas. there has been no
grading done on the county roads
leading into Gilman since the coun-
~ roads were established:
lnSIcSSISs pS ItSotNeO- tnHL
the county engineer furnish pro-
Ale for permanent grade from Le-
Grand to Gilman so that the board
of supervisors can proceed to ad-
Sertise and contract for same"
The motion was not seconded. SUI
peryisor Jones explained that this pro-
jeci would give the board AN approxi-
mate OF the cost per mile OF bringing to
an be-. IL
Is more hilly than the average for the
whole system, yet this road. taken with
the road TO Albion. for example, would
furnish an average cost for both that
would hold good for the entire system.
Raise Objection.
Supervisors Lynch and Nichols OBJ
jected to the resolution. saying that
they feared it might take all of this
vey and estimates. however. would no.
exceed $500. and Mr.. Jones desired bids
on the grading SO as to And out what
the actual cost would be. There would
have been time enough to reject the
bids IL the cost was found to be too
high. " 1870
The county records show that $40. :
1914 was spent on county roads in
1914, $30.2S3.6. in 1915. or total OF
$7s.5s3.36 in the two years. and not one
mile has ye, been put to permanent
grade and approved by the highway
commission, but all work done -
classed az temporary work, which will
have to be partially done over again
before 1t can be officially approved.
Crawling Third Avenue.
Beating the city council to it, the
supervisors have on the other hand
ordered half a mile OF North Third
avenue graveIed. The work was begun
Thursday. The road is to be graveled
four inches deep and sixteen feet wide
from the city limits TO the first read
leading east. The mud holes--which
are numerous-are to be filled with
gravel and surfaced. The road is flat
and liz fairly well crowned so not much
grading to prepare the road for the
gravel will be done.
The gravel has been purchased OF
a producer at the Third avenue bridge
for SO cents a cubic yard at his dump.
Engineer Hickok estimates 1t will re-
quire $50 cubic yards for the job. The
gravel Is to be spread by hand, then
leveled with q leveler as soon as dry
enough to work. This improvement Is
being made not only TO better the road
but liz in the nature OF an experiment
with gravel for surfacing, but it does
not follow the trench method as recon-
mended by the state engineers and Is
not as deep as recommended.
Will Build More Bridges.
Authorizing County Engineer Hickok
to employ two more assistants. the
supervisors have instructed him to
prepare plans for seventy-five more