Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1906 — BRIDGES NEEDED. [ARTICLE]

BRIDGES NEEDED.

Additional Appropriations of $22,000 Made BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL MONDAY At a Special Session. Hade Necessary By the Hany New Ditches Being Constructed. The county council met in special session Monday and reappropriated funds for claims which had lapsed Jan. 1, and made a number of new appropriations. Among the items of new appropriations made, are: NEW BRIDGES For plans and specifications... S4OO 00 1 bridge in Gillam 900 00 1 bridge in Marion 2,000 00 4 bridges in Newton 4,00000 1 bridge in Keener 600 00 1 bridge in Carpenter 700 00 1 bridge in Milroy 800 00 Moving 1 bridge Milroy 100 00 lobridges in Union 10,000 00 2 brigdes in Wheatfield 2,200 00 RE-APPROPRIATION 1905 2 bridges Walker 1,400 00 3 bridges Jordan...., 1,961 00 2 bridges Newton 2,070 50 1 bridge Wheatfield 800 00 1 bridge Milroy 700 00

These new bridges and dozens more, no doubt, are made necessary by the large number of large new dredge ditches that have lately been constructed or are in course of construction in the county, notably the Garrison and Nissius ditches south of Rensselaer, the Kent and Moffitt ditches in Union and Newton townships, and the big Iroquois ditch in Newton, Union, Barkley and Marion townships. Quite a number of the old bridges now in use will be moved to other smaller ditches which they will span. In the matter of the judgment of B. J. Gifford for $2,500 on account of the Iroquois ditch, Councilmen Babcock, Porter, Martindale, Haan, Drake and Shirer voted in favor of making the appropriation, and Councilman Williams against it. C. W. Weatherhogg was given $215.05 for architect services on that extravagant new cottage at the state soldiers home, and $23 05 was appropriated for the equally extravagant ladies’ waitingroom in the court house. The sum of $4,000 was appropriated for repair of ditches by the county surveyor.