Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1916 — Benton County to Build a Strip of Concrete Road. [ARTICLE]

Benton County to Build a Strip of Concrete Road.

A petition is being circuited for a concrete road beginning at the corner two miles west of Oxford and running two miles west, ending at the intersection of the north and south Fowler road. The petition covers the worst piece of road in Benton county at certain times of the year and the further piling of rock or gravel on it is a waste of money. Something better than stone or gravel is coming to meet the needs of the traffic and why delay the coming? This delay is only adding cost upon cost. If the coming roads are to be constructed of brick or cement let this stretch of road demonstrate which it is to be. So far in all branches of cost Benton county has paid out over $2,500,000 on roads and we are waiting to learn of a single mile of road in rhe county that is rated flrstclass and suitable for all kinds of traffic the year around.—Fowler Tribune.