Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1919 — HIGHWAY BODY SELECTS ROADS [ARTICLE]

HIGHWAY BODY SELECTS ROADS

THE PROPOSALS WILL GO BE_ FOR FEDERAL ROADS BUREAU SOON. L. H. Wright, director of the state highway commission, Wednesday announced the roads which the commission proposes to improve this year. While the proposals have yet to be approved by the federal roads bureau, it is not expected that any change will be ordered by that body. The highways which are marked for improvement as soon as plans and spec! fications can be prepared, are as follows: National road, from Terre Haute, to a point five miles east of Stilesville. 31-7 miles of improvement. lincoln highway, in Elkhart county, two stretches, totaling ten miles, which completes the improvement of the Lincoln highway between South Bend and Ligonier. The road between Indianapolis and Greenwood, approximately ten miles. ; The range line road north of Indianapolis to the Marion county line, six miles. Michigan highway, in Marshall county, for 8.7 miles north of Plymouth. Niles road for 4.7 miles north of South BendNational road in Wayne county for one and one-half miles east of Cambridge City. The French Lick road in Warrick and Spencer counties through Boonville, fifteen miles, part of which is east and part of which is west of Boonville. This makes a total of ninety-four and six-tenths miles the commission has marked for improvement this year.- Some time ago it was announced informally that the commission likely would be unable to have completed much more than 100 miles of road this year. However, the commission was in session Wednesday afternoon and it was trying to find a way to select a few more miler to be improved, if possible, this year. It was expected that at the maximum not more than fifty more miles might be designated for improvement and that more likely only ten or thirty more miles might be so marked. <• The commission heard a number of visitors Wednesday who represented varios groups wanting certain roads designated for early improve- ' ment.