Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1919 — KEEP TRAVELED ROADS OPEN [ARTICLE]

KEEP TRAVELED ROADS OPEN

Highway Commissioners of Several Eastern States Plan to Remove Snow This Winter. Highway commissioners or their representatives from New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Delaware recently met with the Highway Traffic association of the state of New’ York and reported that plans had been made to keep the most traveled roads open every day this winter. Of an appropriation of $1,000,000 made by New York for maintenance of the routes used by army transport trucks $50,000 is available for snow removal. In Connecticut the cost of snow removal on 1,000 miles of highway aggregated about $50,000 last winter, or approximately SSO a mile.