Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1916 — Don’t Look Like a Very Good Job of Road Oiling. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Look Like a Very Good Job of Road Oiling.

The editor of The Republican was taken quite generally over the city a day or two ago and an inspection made of the street oiling completed last week and certainly in most respects the job in Rensselaer was well done. Not so much can be said, however, about the job on the college road, which started at the George Long corner and extends beyond he college. The expense of this oiling was borne by the county, which was to pay S6O, and by’the college and a portion by private donations. The job was not inspected, we are informed, as it was done and apparently less than 60 per cent as much oil was used as was used on the streets in town and except where the sprinkled oil overlapped in the center of the road, a strip only about 3 feet wide, there is not enough oil to lay the dust more than two or three weeks, if even that long. Di scerns that there was no definite agreement as to what amount of oil was to be used but the impression was gathered that the road was to be oiled as well as the streets in Rensselaer. Some who had expected to contribute toward the expense of the oiling are declining to do so on the ground that they did not get what they had a right to expect, while theje is also a protest against the commissioners allowing the bill for the oiling for the same reason. The strip of road that was oiled is the road built last year under the direction of County Road Superintendent Gray and it was the belief of the commissioners that the would preserve the road.