Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-04
PUBLIC HAS LITTLE CONCEPTION
OF VAST AMOUNT or tMpRoV.
ING IN IOWA. .,.,
Nearly t5s Miles Of Paved Eosts In.
eiudsd In Projects to Be centsmplat.
ID Before Cold wecthsn---centrsots
Awarded on Seventy Miles In Six
Additional Counties.
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Special TO Tirnes-RepuoEcaa
Dies Moinss, Oct. with only the
accounts OF road elections held here
and there over the state appearing
from time to time in the newspa pers
! the people Of Iowa have little con-
oeption the state highway commission
reports Of the work that has already
Assn done under the new road law and
hat outlined Tor nsxt seasoa-
Hard surtaetng projects are under
vay - ten different counties OF the
state in which = total Of ls7.77 miles
OF paving at a total cost OF 1877, 3s2.s2
will Dc completed before cold weather.
In one of thase ZEN counties. Cerro
Gordo, four and eas-e.ghth miles OF
paving have been completed at 4 cost
OF sss.e7S.ss. The other counties in
which work is under way are Wood
bury. SAFE rsilos. estimated cost $3.50
x5l5o: Jefferson, 1878 miles, estimated
cost $50 s2e.S5 Marion Is miles, ISL
500: Montgomery, 1850 miles, SIS $50;
Ncnroe, SIS rntles, s4s6ea; Linn, 49,
miles, $lss. sTe.97: Black Hawk. 4.o5
miles. s1ss,4115s; Howard, lo4 miles,
s5s.5l4,14; Chtcsasaw, 1901 miles, $685.
ss3.54.
Contracts have been lst On approx
rnately seventy miles OF WORK IN SIX
additional counties and work has start
&c On some OF these projects. In fact
The state highway commission predicts
the CONSTRUCTION in some stage and On
some type Of improvement VII be N
progress on at least 1.20o miles Of the
primary road system during the 1870
vorstng season
e. Nine Counties Oepoee.
Thry-three Counties have votsd on
tie question Of hard sU-fac!ng since
the bin was passed by the Thirty
eighth general assembly last spring.
The proposition has carried in twenty
FOUR and has been defeated il nine Of
these counties. Bonds have been voted
70 the extent Of sls,s75, 900 n twelve
OF these counties.
The counties which have voted in ia
vor Of hard surfacing are Black Hawk,
Sioux, Pala Alto. Scott lam, O'Brien.
Johnson, Buchanan, Cerro Gordo. o.
ceoIa. Dickinson. Polk. Benton. wood
bury, Marshall, Floyd, Kossuth, Clay,
Greene. Lyon. Hancock Plymouth,
Clinton.
Those which have thus far voted It
down are Story, Tana, Hardin, Frank
lin, Calhoun, Beuna Vista, Sac. Chero-
kee and Carroll.
One-rhird Of the counties OF the
state have therefore voted or the prop
osition Of hard surfacing roids and IN
one fourth OF the counties practically
work is either Under way or is being
undertaken 10 hard surface the prim-
AIRY roads. The highway commission
predicts that al least 200 miles OF paw
Ing viii be laid next year and thou
sand miles or more Of primary road
will be put TO primary grade.
Under the law az il nor stands e
county which has turned down the
project 20 hard surface can not again
vote on II for two years. 1t is probable
an effort will be made 20 change this
waen the special session meets tnis
winter 80 tha, elections may De held
sooner than that.
IN thirty-six counties ir ad6'+:c- n
those where paving is r Nv under way
projects have been ap ~ ed for 1888
miles Of permanent sra--ag 55.5 miles
Of graveling and 1875 miles OF hard
surtacing.
The commission reports that grading
work has been costing from forty 10
sixty cents per cubic yard and prices
on concrete paving about 50 per square
yard.