The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-01-20
Bemidji Will Decide Issue to
Connect State Highways
Through the City
PAVED ROUTES THROUGH
TOWN WOULD CONNECT
Council Takes Action on Inn
provements for Bemidji
in the Project

people WILL VOCe OA 1AAo AuSe
a bond issue to pave the streets anu
avenues leading to the state roads
that enter Bemidji, as the city's part
of the Babcock road system plan.
The bonds to be voted for amount
to S155,O0O, while the city will have
to nav for the street intersections,
street crossings and alley crossings,
estimated at $4,000, making total
of $185,000.
An effort is to be made to have
the state pay for eighteen feet in
the center of the paved streets, and
if this can be accomplished 1T VIII
mean that the state will pay $78, 500
of the cost of connecting the state
roads, which will act as refund.
At the regular meeting of the city
council Monday night the following
resolution was passed, designating
the two routes to be taken through
Bemidii, connecting the state roads
to be built under the Babcock sys-
tenn:
Resolution No. 17e.
"Whereas, for the purpose of con-
forming with Chapter 265, Session
Laws Of 1919, and of Section IL,
CHAPTER 235 of the Session Laws OF
1913, in designating and establishing
a state road within the corporate
limits of the City of Bemidji, Bel
trami County, Minnesota, and
:'Whereas, the streets and roads
hereinafter designated and described
will constitute direct connecting
link with those state roads leading
into and out Of said City of BemidJl
known and described as follows: State
Road No. 4, also designated as Fed
eral Aid Project No. 81 and as
Route No. in the proposed Amend
ment No. l to the Constitution OF
the State of Minnesota; State Road
No. |; State Road No. 6, also desig-
mated as Route No. in the proposed
Amendme ent No. l to the Constitution
of the State of Minnesota;
"Be it resolved by the city council
of the City of Bemidji, that the fol-
lowing streets and roads within the
corporate limits of the City of Be-
midi, and not less than sixty (60)
feet in width, be, and they are hereby
designated and established a state
road;
Babcock Route No. 8.
BEGINNING at the intersection of
State Road Nc Four ~, and Fed
eral Aid Project No. 81 (also desig-
mated as Route No. 8 in the pro-
posed Amendment No. to the Con-
stitution of the State Of Minnesota),
with Central avenue of the City of
Bemidji, said county and state; thence
north on Central avenue to the in
tersection of First street south and
Central avenue; thence west on First
street south to where it intersects
and crosses the M. & l. railway, and
thence northwesterly along the north
boundary line of the said M. & l.
railway to Bemidji avenue; thence
north on Bemidji avenue to the in
eersection of First street; thence
west on First street to the intersec-
ton of Beltrami avenue; thence
north on Beltrami avenue to the in
tersection of Sixth street; thence
west on Sixth street to the intersec-
ton with Minnesota avenue; thence
north on Minnesota avenue to it's in
tersection with Fifteenth street;
thence west on Fifteenth street to
it's intersection with Irwin avenue, be-
ing State Road No. and Federal
Aid Project No. 81 (also designated
as Route No. 8 under the proposed
Amendment No. to the Constitution
of the State of Minnesota).
Babcock Route No. G..
beginning at the point of inter-
section of the north line Of the 500
Line railway right-of-way as now To-
Gated and established in the City of
Bemidji with State Road No. 1, as
now located and established; thence
east on Fourth street in prolongation
of State Road No. l to it's intersec
ton with America avenue; thence
north on America avenue to its in
tersection with Fifth street; thence
east on Fifth street to it's intersection
with Minnesota avenue; thence north
on Minnesota avenue to its intersec-
tion witha Sixth street; thence east on
Sixth street to it's intersection with