The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-05-13
poAn BOARD CONTROVERSY.
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minds one of the riddle what IS the
reason because for why IS NOT
urbich ," The answer being because
= can NOT was" The Board let the
.a,,+,.,ct for the Second Ward Con
motion via the Forty Arpent ana
Conlie road. The engineer surVeye"
+his road and found there was
sligbt offset at the property OF MT
7 q Rroussard and that the ROAD at
that peint was only thirty feet woe
The State required at least a 1or'S
foot road. therefore, ten feet hioie
was REQUIRED which IN ORDER 10 MANI
+ba road straight should come lro'1
the Broussard side OF the ROAD va
tho other side of the road IS oeeP
drainage canal which would nave 10
ho fIlad and another dug. The Ola
canal would then be IN the ROAD =
+b;s wore done at least SIX motlth7
,honld he allowed for the earth 10
mack and set to prevent SiippIS
,,hon the road was put down Inc
ten feet on the Broussard side Wouiu
;.1,,do - laroe levee and row Il
tonned trees used as fence posts
tbaca would have to be removed
This would make the road costly pu'
# would make a good ROAD Wiil''
could be completed at once. oho4s
the hest circumstances this Is inc
r,ost COSTLY piece Of road that the
BOARD contemplated, because 10 ge'
.horo bioh water the grade must be
vary bioh and must be made win
SCOOPS. again the soil is very heaV :
and hard to work. 1t developed tha'
Mr. Rroussard would not give the
,;ab+ Of wav nor would he sell 1t.
In order to confirm this officially the
BOARD sent a committee to see MI
Rroussard Mr.. Broussard's idea was
we believe. a survey should be made
~ establish the old Forty Arpen'
line and that the road right OF way
ebould divide on the line. This would
either throw the road in the canal
or cause the rebuilding OF all the
balance of the forty arpent ROAD II
the event that it did not DIVIDE OF
the line. The entire Board went
over the route with its engineer te
see whether the Commercial cana
bank might not be used IN order u
oct away from the delay OF eXprop
Ration proceedings or costly com
promise. The Board had learned iron
past experience that an expensive
compromise is frequently better thaf
Court delay. While investigating
this route the Board was approachef
nv n committee of Tax Payers iron
what is known as the Curtis neigh
borhood who pointed out the fac'
that they were without road O.
any kind and that as tax payers the!
, were entitled to a public road, ant
that if the Board would consider
the proposition that they would fur
nish without charge lawful rlgh'
; of way almost straight from the
Center st. Road to the Second Ward
The Board Engineer made the sur
vey and reported that the distance
was one third of mile less and tbs
probable saving in construction al
least 100000 as the land on this
route was largely high and the great
err part of the work could be done
with machines. The Board found thai
the following tax payers live on the
two routes and that they pay the tan
to the road fund last year as sci
after their respective names. This
gives consideration only to the PEG.
pie who actually live on the roads II
question and it does not consider tax
payers whose lands run back to the
Forty Arpent Road and who live or
the Bayou or elsewhere. Following is
the list of tax payers:
NEW ROAD