Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1911 — Engineers and Viewers Go Out On Proposed Barkley Route. [ARTICLE]

Engineers and Viewers Go Out On Proposed Barkley Route.

C. J. Hobbs, of Kersey, who was appointed the engineer for the proposed Barkley township gravel road, arrived in Rensselaer this Tuesday morning on the milk train, having come to McCoysburg from Kersey on a motor car over the Gifford railroad. The viewers for the Barkley road which has been petitioned for by S. C. Irwin and others, are A. J. Bellows, Sylvester Gray and Jas. McClannahan. The engineers and viewers qualified and started out over the proposed improvement. • The route of the proposed gravfel road is north from the Barkley church to the road west of Gifford, thence east through Gifford to the first road north. There is a spur extending to the William Folger farm from the main road. The construction of the road would prove a great benefit to all land owners in the neighborhood of Newland and Gifford and would help land values in that section of the county.