Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1919 — Ask Forty-Nine Miles of New Roads. [ARTICLE]

Ask Forty-Nine Miles of New Roads.

Indianapolis, March 21. —Ten -petitions for about forty-nine miles of concrete, brick and bituminous concrete roads in Franklin, arren, Wayne and Perry townships, were filed with the board of county commissioners under the new county unit road law. The total cost of the improvements asked will exceed, if ordered, $1,500,000, according to Leo K. Fesler, county auditor, or $500,000 more thnn Is called for by the road improvement program for 1919, mapped out by the commissioners last week. All of the petitions filed'were for roads in the southeast, south and southwest port of Marion county, whereas the program adopted last week was for improvements in every part of the county.