Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-21
.LASALLE COUNTY WILL
BUILD LD|TSSHARE0F IVY
WAY--v0TE|S 4lT0II
By a vote of al to ! the La Sale County
Board this afternoon appropriated $l87,625 to
construct the La Sale County link of the Ivy


two instaIIments $ss,s13 in 1918 and
a like amount In 1919.
A recommendation signed by Sup
ervisors Dunno, Trumbo and others
asked that the state aids committee
consider seriously a proposition to run
the highway south thru Seneca, thence
west on the south side Of the river to
and then west to Ottawa on
the north side Of the river. They also
requested that careful survey be
made Of the road between Ottawa and
La Sale on both sides Of the river be.
fore either. The board approved the
recomme ndation.
The vote followed some advisory re.
marks by Superintendent Of Highways
Bradt. whose address Is appended,
and was minus the usual flow Of ora.
tory that usually proceeds such a biq
undertaking.
The vote follows: -. 49,.
Ayes-Andrews, Balda, Bronson,
Burgess, Burns, Charley, cIapsaddle,
Clark, connerton, Dauber Davy, Doyle,
Dunn, EeIIs, Farnsworth, ceioer,
HawIey, Hill, HoobIer, Hunter, kas.
tenbein Keys, Knox, Kuhn, kurscheid
Langley, moriarty. Mosey, McGonisle.
NitscheIm, O'oOnneIl Peck Richey,
sauer, Spencer, States, stobs, strobel,
Trumbo, WerIing, Yockey.
Nays-BelI, Beuer, Goedtner, Kelly,
Larson. Lewis, Marshall, Mcdonnell,
Pohl, WiIlsey and WyIie.
Absent-Hall and callaghan.
Supt. Bradt Talks.
In his address to the board this
morning $. r. Bradt, state superin-
tendent Of highways. said:
Roads are the pleasure grounds Of
the people. In making them good
roads they will serve as stimulous
for better health by getting our famil.
les out into the open where they can
breath the freshest kind Of invigOrat-
ing air. You can bank on 1t that an
improved highway is as much factor
in preserving health as any other one
thing in our lives.
"Our government has appropriated
for use of the various states total
of $75,0O0,000 to be spent during the
next five years on improved highways.
Illinois share of this amount for the
allotted period is $3,5O0,0 900.
'ln its adoption Of federal aid law
congress passed the Illinois law almost
in it's entirety, showing that our state
has made some modern strides in road
legislation
"At the last meeting of the legis-
lature appropriations for road work
to meet the governments fund were
made, total of $66000O being set
aside for this purpose, thereby max
ing available in 1918 by following the
plan of government, state and county
each paying a third, total Of $2,600,-
000with which three big trunk lines
will be constructed.
an reaching its decision the state
board had to take into consideration
the benefits that would be derived by
the most people and that meant con-
Meeting the most important highways.
We finally decided that by starting at
Chicago and thence going to Peoria
and Springfield to st. Louis we could
connect the middle vests two great
est metropli-Chcago and st. Louis.
"The map shows that in going thru
Ia Sale county we have taken route
considerably off what would be the
closest and most direct way; but by
doing so we figure we rae reaching
twenty-seven per cent. more people
than we would by cutting straight
south of Joliet thru Pontiac or Dwight
and then on to Springfield. The route
as now proposed is 2S miles longer
than it would have been had we Sc
| lected the other road
Mr.. Bradt explained that the road
was laid out in six sections, known as
the Lincoln Highway, The Chicago
Springfield G. V. Way Road, the Ma
tiona Old Trails and the Dixie High
way. The Chlcago.Springfield route
consisted of two sections. Each ter
minating at Peoria Before the esti-
mate was made the chief engineers
and division engineer went over each
route and noted carefully the condi-
tions of the road and then estimated
its approximate cost 70 building The
Chicago-Springheld road is 224 miles
in length outside Of Cook, "a miles
Of which are improved The estimat.
, ed cost of the 200 miles is s3,33S,O00
In the Lincoln Highway there Is 100
miles on the Dixie SIS and the Ma
tional Old Trails. 80,
: The government requires that the
roads to be improved by government
aid must necessarily be post roads or
at least so per cent Of the total. Those
intervals which ara not pOst roads