The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-05
IN ROAD RECORD
Highway Commission Approves
315 Miles This Week.
Shawnee County Will Build
More Good Roads.


The state highway commission
broke all records at its meeting in To-
peka this week when it approved fed
eral aid for 315 miles of hard surface
highways in Kansas. This action
brings the states hard surface road
mileage to $50 miles and represents a
total expense to local districts. town
ships and the government of more
than sixteen million dollars
Slightly less than $50 miles of per-
manent roads had been approved by
the state commission prior to this
week. Almost the entire government
allotment to this state will be expend-
ed in the construction of highways
now approved. Several approved
roads are not unde- course of con-
Lapse of several contracts will enable
the state commission to meet new fed
eral aid drafts without difficulty.
Shawnee Gets Aid.
Federal aid was allowed for sixteen
additional miles of hard surface road
brings the total of federal aid high
ways in the county to thirty-four. The
state commission approved nine miles
of highway north on the Central ave-
nue. road to the Jackson county line.
Seven miles Of upper Silver Lake road
was also approved. Approval was
given by the commission for separate
| unit construction of the Atchison-
| Topeka and Council Grove-Topeka
roads. This action permits of the
building of these highways without Pc
titioning for the entire route.
| Following are the permanent high
way units approved by the state COM
| mission.
Highways Approved.
| Saline-Salina to the ottawa county
| line, 713 miles, concrete, brick or bitumi-
! nous macadam.
| Shawnee-Topeka to Jackson county line
| fha .
feet wide, concrete, brick, bituminous
macadam or gravel.
| over Meridian road from state line south of
Caldwell east to South Haven and north
thru Wellington, to the Sedgwick county
line. Bituminous macadam, concrete, brick
or asphaltic concrete.
| Miami-Thirty miles over the Jefferson
| highway, from Linn county line thru Osa-
| watomie and Paola to johnson county line,
bituminous macadam.
Marshall-Over the White Way, bitum-
inous macadam of concrete, Is feet wide.
80 miles from Nemaha county line thru
Vermillion, Frankfort and Blue Rapids
| to Washington county line.
| Receive and three -fourths miles. over
the New Santa Fe trail, concrete or mono
lithie brick, IS feet wide, from Sterling
| Rice-Seven miles on the old Santa Fe
TRAIL concrete or brick, is feet wide from
| ACKNOWLEDGMENT and one-half miles
on the Fort-scOtt- Wichita road. gravel. BIZ
| reka west to the Butler county line.
Dickinson-Eleven miles concrete or
brick, IS feet, over Golden Belt from Abb
Linn-Twenty- eight and one-half miles
over Jefferson Highway from Bourbon
line, Waterbound macadam, 16 feet wide:
Crawford-Twenty- three and one-half
miles. brick, IS feet wide. oyer Jefferson
highway from the county line south, of
Pitfsburg. thru Pittsburg to the bourbon
county Zine and miles OF bituminous ma
| Girard over the Jefferson highway.
Saline-From Saline south on the Meri-
dian road, miles of concrete. brick or BIZ
luminous macadam. is feet wide.
Lake road. miles bituminous macadam,
brick or concrete, IS feet wide.
line ON s0q q6hd mes
concrete and brick. IS feet wide
C, Gherokee-columbus south to state line.
bus west to Labette county line over
Columbus Oswego road, 1874 miles, IS feet
wide.
Kearny-Forty miles Of dirt road over
the Old Santa Fe trail, miles and miles
south Of Lakin.
Lane-FederaI aid, over, dirt road on the
and west. thru Dithton and 10 miles north
to Stark on the Missouri Pacific.
Linn.Federal aid. over Kansas City
thru Pleasanton and La Cygne. with the
understanding that the road must be at
least bituminous macadam. excepting I
miles of Marias de Cygnes bottom, which
must be concrete and federal aid to ex-
tent of 100000 per mile will be given on
The federal government states in the
law it will allow federal aid to cities oi
the second class under $500 population
The highway commission has not granted
voted to give % per cent aid to cities OF
the second class where they are construct
| ing roads connecting federal aid roads on
either side. But in no case will the cities
receive over $500 a mile.