The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-11-17
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The Butler Commercial Club At j
Imeeting with others interestcd in thu
Kansas City-SpTingfield Highway
iWent On record ~ bscker 81 this
Iroad and appointed i committee 81
tten, to solicit the suppcrt Cf people
From this section tor the building 81
THE bridge which will aSSlsre this
|great highway being com trncted.
4 The Kansas City-Sprinefieid High
Ixay is y short line between Kansas
ECity and Springfield. the shortest Ia
mileage Of four possible routes. free
from heavy grade and low bottoms
land with the sectior from Harrison
willie to Kansas City and 81 Dorado
Springs to Springfield already hard
surfaced or Under construction. I.
Il 1t follows the Jefferson Highway
from Kansas City to Butler, then
|turns east to Pleasant Gap over a
state road. then south and across the
Usage River below the mouths Of the
Marias des Cygnes, Little Usage and
Marmaton al Bellvoir. then South and
West into FL Dorado and connects
with the, established highway. 1t.
takes nothing of travel from any
other road entering or leaving But
Ter but affords the shortest and best
line for all OF the travel to Spring
field, Lake Taneycomo, Branson and
Southern and Southeast Missouri, a
good share Of which does not now
pass through Butler.
Locally it brings Southeastern
Bates county into close touch with
the central and west part Of the coun-
ty and makes Butler a post of the
road for travel from Cedar, Polk,
Dade and other counties which are
close at hand but a long distance by
rail or present lines of travel.
The only obstacle in the way OF
building this road is the need of a
great and expensive bridge across the
Usage River, Bates and Vernon
Counties must put up one-half of this
cost (onc-fourth each) when citizens
have raised the remaining half. The
bridge is now practically assured but
Butler must do its share to make it
certain. Cedar County SO clearly
realizes the value Of this highway
that at meetings held at Stockton, Ell
Dorado Springs and other points
more than five thousand dollars was
raised to pay for bridge between
Bates and Vernon counties. Cedar
County which in the era of railroad
was passed by does not pro-
bose that in the era of hard road !
building it shall suffer such fate,
Prairie and Pleasant Gap townships
rave pledged more than twenty-five
hundred dollars to this bridge which |
With the road across it improved puts
hem almost in the suburbs Of the
county seat.
! A number of citizens of Butler and
owners of land along the route have
.lready made pledges of good sums
oward the building of this bridge
md stand ready to go further in inn
proving the roads afterwards. But
er's chance to show it's good will
oward those who are striving to put
upon great state highway lies in
contributing to the fund to assure the
bridge. Unless this is secured and
he bridge built no payment will be
.sked.
. At any time in the past twenty
ears railroad into southeastern
Bates county alone would have been
rorth thousands of dollars to prop
rty owners and business men Of But
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