Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-03-21

about | H. N. Glover is the poinI
where passengers from C~enteryiiie
Le~stefNlile, Black and a large portion
oi the north par, of this county boart
the rains when they desire to traveI
On the railroad, and the traffic de
maiids u q the railway company give
at least one more train stop at thi,
station. The hearing was postpone,
bv the Commissioner on account o
the representative of the railroad
falling to appear.-Centerviile Out
look.
From Harrington News: "Stat,
Highway Engineer +. ". Graham
OF Jefferson City, was here on las'
Saturday going over the matter O.
establishing State Highway through
st. Francois county from. the Jeifer'
SOL to the Madison county lines
Accompanying him over the proposed
route were Harry C.riiiith, County
Highway Engineer OF Jefferson coun-
ty, County Highway Engineer Hol'
man and Judges Garrett and Mitchell
OF st, Francois county. Jefferson
county is urging that the route from
De Soto 10 the st. Francois county
line be via Wales Mines which they
claim IL a better route and the mp
Keep of the road III that county will
be much less on that route than If il
Is over The present rock road be-
tween E0nna Terre and De Soto. Mr..
Holman says this change could be
made with the smallest amount OF
cost Tor ri. Francois county BY build
ing about two miles Of new road along
a ridge from the present rock road
just east of Primrose north t. the
Jefferson county line, near Vale
Mines. From bonne Terre south The
route will follow the Bonnie Terre
and Pennington road through Des-
loge, Flat River to Pennington and
bennington and Jackson road from
Pennington 10 Fredericktown. The
state paws one-haif the cost of build
ing and keeping up of all State High
waya,'
The Ellington Press thinks Rey-
nolds County has a 'cinchn on one
proposed State Highway. The fol-
loving Is taken from that paper OF
March 1lth: "a. Q. Mckibbin Of
Jefferson City, Secretary OF the State
Highway Commission, is in Reynolds
county preparatory TO selecting a
proposed route through this county
for the proposed State Highway. which
Is 10 be constructed from Jefferson
City. through Poplar Bluff, to Arkan-
sas. The permanent route has been
located as far south as Stonehiii in
Dent county and yesterday Mr.. Nc
kibbjn accompanied by G NJ. Buford,
II. l.. Copeland, @. w. Buford, John
Mann, Anthony Buford, Il, r. Taylor,
K. Reed, +. w, Scott, Ira HuIsey, 1Dr.
G. G. Simmons and Judge Il. l., Black.
left Ellington for the north part OF
county 20 locate the Highway from
stonehill to Centerville. The party
went up Logan Creek to Reynolds,
then to Centerviile. From Center
vile they went by way of Vim. Ray
fields farm to Black, then to Oates,
and to Stoneiliil i'll Dent county. On
their return trip they will come
through Bunker to Reynolds, thence
to L~esterviile, Glover and Ironton.
Mr.. Mckibbin is going over all these
different roads in order that he may
give each neighborhuod IL fair chance
for the route, On the 18th of March
all the members OF the State Highway
Commission will meet at jefferson
City and make the final decision as
to the location of the route. Nh.
Mckibbin told us that it was fully de-
cided that the road would pass through
Reynolds county and that the only
thing to be settled was the question
of the location i'll the north end of
this county. The road will pass
through Ellington and go almost
straight south to Poplar Bluff. All of
the counties along the proposed
route have the finances ready to build
the Highway the entire distance from
Jefferson City to Poplar Bluff. There
has been quite a bit of controversy
between Greenville and Piedmont as
to which OF those two towns were to
be fortunate enough to obtain the pro-
posed route, While Wayne county
was trying to pick out Il suitable loca-
ZION for the route, the citizens of
Usage, MAries, Phelps, Dent and
Reynolds counties got busy and OBJ
tanned this very much desired State
Highway. Our sister county, Wayne,
has been talking good roads for sever
Al years and for quite a few months
have been pulling for the State High
way bnt they have not yet got their
road bonds clear Of legal tangles. and
failed TO get the Highway, while
''poor old backwoods Reynolds" vot-
ed road bonds and sold them in a
jitfy, and will be ready for work in a
few weeks, and have, without a lot of
wrangiing between different sections
of the county, landed the North and
South State Highway" Understand
the route here referred to is the JEFF
ferson City highway, not the propos.
ed State Highway from St. Louis to
the Arkansas line, over the location
of which people in the southern part
of Iron and Wayne counties have had
so much wrangIing. This route il yet
undetermined.
PERSONAL.
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