Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-18
SUPERVISORS 70 OPEN sios FOR
FIRST FEDERAL Aio ROAD
PROJECTS.
GRADE SIX MILES THIS
FALL, PAVE NEXT SPRING
GRADING Contract to Be Let For Two
Mile. or Lincoln Highway East and
West and South Center Street Road
will Revise Four. Mile Hill and
Change Curves.

! The first contract for grading pri-
mary roads that are TO I've paved next
| year with the aid Of federal and state
money will be let by the board OF Sd
pervisors Saturday afternoon. Bids
are TO be opened AT o'clock for grad
ing two miles on the Lincoln highway
east and west and the South Center
street road, starting al the city Inn
its. County Engineer Hickok has es-
timated the earth TO be moved at 6S,-
29S cubic yards.
Altho the North Third avenue road Is
to be paved at the same time the 9TH
! ers are no grading TO prepare the ROAD
bed for the paving Is necessary in the
first two miles north of the city linn
its.
Grade and Pave Six Miles.
The board of supervisors has decid-
ed to grade six miles Of the three roads
! and next year 10 pave six miles on the
four roads. The grading to be done on
these roads this fall will be paid for
out Of county road money. After Jan.
/. 1920. county road money can not
be used for grading primary roads that
are " De p<INtu 81 tilc pooiN 10 IVA
serving it's motor fund money with the
| intention OF using 1t next year for pri-
mary road grading, as the law allows
under federal and state aid. BY this
method IL will be possible for the coun-
ty to do more grading next year in its
program of hard surfacing a part Of
the primary road system each year
until all is graded and paved.
Change Road West.
The grading 10 be done on the Lin
coin highway east Of the city on the
! South Center street road consists en-
tirely OF merely bringing these roads
10 the required grade. Most Of the
cuts and fills are light as these roads
near the city were previously brought
to nearly the required grade.
On the Lincoln highway. west OF the
city. much heavier grading will be re-
ouired in places and very important
changes will be made at -Four mile
hill The revisions of the Lincoln
highway west have been generally ap-
proved by the district engineer OF the
state highway commission in charge OF
federal road projects. All the details
Of curves and grades have not how
| ever. been approved and may be
changed slightly as the work is being
done.
Make "Feur. Mile" Easier.
Just west Of the city limits, the two
curves in the road at the Merritt
Greene farm are to be made much
easier by eliminating the sharper turns
at both corners.
Near the Sherman farm and the
Batesole corner, farther west, the two
curves in the road are to be taken out
by cutting both corners and revising
the road way in general southwest
ern direction.
The largest work Is to be in the re-
vision Of, -four mile hill. The import
ant changes there will be easing the
| turns both at the top and the bottom
Of the hill and by reducing the grade
from between Z and per cent. as 1t
now Is. to about 81 per cent. This win
be accomplished by cutting the turn at
| the top Of the hill and moving the road
to the southwest. The curve at the
foot Of the hill is TO be reduced by
moving the road to the northwest,
which will both lengthen and reduce
| the grade OF the hill. This change OF
! the grade at the foot will extend the
| foot OF the hill west about 800 feet or
more. The revised road on the hill
will be much straighter, the curves will
be much easier and the grade will b
| considerably less.