Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1914 — WILL CONSTRUCT CONCRETE ROAD [ARTICLE]

WILL CONSTRUCT CONCRETE ROAD

Benton County Will Experiment With New Material at Cost ol 110,000 Per Mile.

Fowler, Ind., Dec. B.—Benton county is planning on going into the improved road business on the most extensive scale in its history. It is announced that viewers will approve the Freeman road in Grant tdwnship, which is to be concrete > and wHI cost $30,000. It is to be three miles in length. Thus far crushed stone and gravel roads have been the extent of the expense, and thousands of dollars have been spent on this kind of roads, miles and miles having been built in the past few years. -Yesterday afternoon the county commissioners, on recommendation of the viewers’ Anal report and supplemenary statement, approved a change in specifications from brick to stone, on the Burns road In Bolfver township. A delegation of farmers from Boliver township visited the commissioners and expressed their opposition to the more expensive style of road. The highway is to be three miles long, and by using stone the construction price will be brought down to about $7,900l number of other road matters reported on by the viewers were given approval by the commissioners. It is stated that there is much opposition being manifest to the extensive road building that -has been in progress, yet there are many farmers In various parts of the county fho are clamoring for better highways over which to haul their immense crops, and indications further point to the fact that road building in Benton county will not decrease, , when the farmers demand them.