Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1918 — ROAD BUILDING IN BENTON [ARTICLE]

ROAD BUILDING IN BENTON

Not Unlike That of Her Neighboring Counties. The State Board of Accounts has unearthed a bad mess in road building in Benton county, according to the Review, that stinks to high heaven. The road is located in Pine township and is known as the Fleming gravel road. It is less than two miles in length and the contract was let May 1, 1917, for $10,085, but the specifications welre* treated as mere “scraps of paper” by the contractors and subcontractors, and the board of accounts’ engineer says it will cost $10,552.37 to reconstruct the road and make it comply with the specifications. The report of the board of accounts recommended that no action be taken by the county commissioners toward acceptingthe the plans and specifications under which it had been let were complied with, yet attorneys for the contractors were trying to have the commissioners get together in special session and accept and pay for the road, at last reports.