Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-01-07
BUREAU FARMERS
START NEW FIGHT
FOR IVY WAY ROUTE:
LAUNCH CAMPAIGN TO TAKE
HIGHWAY AWAY FROM DE pUEI
AND SEND 1T THROUGH HoLLo.
WAYviLLE AND 6EAToNviLLE.

A campaign TO relocate the Ivy Way
between Bureau and Spring Valley. so
ms TO route the federal aid highway
through IIollowayyille and Seaton-
vile. instead OF following the lower
road from DePue, has been launched
by "A group of highland farmers In
Hall. Selby and Princeton townships.
Al meeting Saturday afternoon at
the Seatonylle town hail petitions
We're put in circulation asking the
statement department OF public works
TO change the route and when signed
these petition will be filed at Spring.
field with Frank r. Sheets, the di-
rector of the department
II Is reported that the meeting Sat.
urday In Seatonville Was attended by
more than fifty land owners residing
within three mile radius of the Peru
Princeton road, which IL Is proposed
TO follow from the Dunterman corners
TO the old Devlin farm north of Spring
Valley. and since the meeting the sig.
natures are said TO have been affixed
10 the petitions.
The meeting was called BY William
Genslinger Louis Weber, William Fen.
wick, Abe Briddick and Charles Wal.
ters, who are leading the movement
on behalf OF the SeltOnyille farmers
Two weeks ago these men, accOmpan.
led by William Seaman. state repre-
sentative from Peru. called upon the
state highway cnmmi0siOn at Spring
held TO protest against the cOnstuC
ton OF the hard road along the valley
route originally proposed
The highland farmers declare that.
the route as originally approved by
the state highway department for the
construction OF the Ivy WAY will not
serve the residents and land owners
on the bluff ana prairie north OF De-
Pue and would be an expensive road
ito build and maintain.
The upper road. which they pro.
|poso as substitute they assert
would serve more people and would
be less expensive to build and keep
|lp. The Seatonville faction promise
% furnish all the land needed to
-ound the corners in the event the
quite through Seatonville and Hollo-
wayville is selected
This route does not mean the add |
ng of any mileage in the building OIL
hard road when you consider the |
Wy Way in connection with the road |
provided by law to be built from |
'rinceton to connect with the Ivl |
Way for the reason that the proposed /
DAD through Seatonville and Hollo |
Tvayville will be TWO miles nearer
Princeton, and, therefore, cuts the dis
ance OF the road from Princeton two
niles whereas the route through De
'ue, along the lower road, makes the
istance two miles longer" the propo
ents of the high road declare in theil
etition to the state highway depart !
Ilent
The move sponsored By the Seaton
+ lille farmers to change the location ~
le Ivy Way reopens fight which
as carried on several years agu
hen the Chicago-St Louis highway
as first proposed. At that time
Prominent business interests at
rinceton advocated coming to Prince
pm from Spring Valley and thence
|irough Tiskilwa to Whitefield Cor.
|ers, but powerful interests at PEG
a, La Sale, Joliet and Chicago per-
lifting the .riyery scenery to out :
I eigh engineering difficulties. threw
Ileir influence with the DePue and ,
|ureau advocates and persuaded thel
! ate engineers to route the hard road
| ON Putnam to Bureau, thence to De
Iue, and east from that point along
e valley to the location at Spring '
|alley.
The Ivy Way is now completed FRONT
Ilicago to Spring Valley and from
lreau to Peoria, with the exception
one or two small gaps near Starved 9
'pck, where new bridges have been 6
pt in and the approaches have not ,
liiciently settled to put on the conf {
etc surface, The section from Blu
Iau to DePue is now under construc-
pm, but from DePue to Spring Val -
y the work has been delayed by
sht OF way troubles, which appear At
be almost insurmountable. Had il U
t been for these troubles the con u
bets for this section might haveI
en- let more than year ago.