Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1919 — OUR ROAD BUILDING METHODS [ARTICLE]

OUR ROAD BUILDING METHODS

Trial at Fowler Bringing Out Some Very Interesting Facts. The trial of Wallace Evans, a Fowler road contractor, now going on in the Benton circuit court, has brought out some interesting facts In regard to the building of byroads in Indiana. The records showed that John Bartoo and George Foster were appointed viewers on this road. The oath to which they subscribed showed that C. B Whicker, John Bartoo and George Foster had been appointed viewers and had sworn faithfully and impartially to discharge their duties. Only two blds were made on the Fleming road. George W. Terill bld SIO,IOO and Evans, Son & Vannatta bid $10,085, or sls less, and received .the contract. In the peti-

tion asking for the building of the Fleming road is thia paragraph: "Your petitioners further report and show that said Improvement and highway as petitioned herein will pass over one o* the main traveled roads and wagon roads in Pine township; that the same will be an accommodation to a great number of persons and the general public, and will lead to and from the grain markets, churches, schools, etc.’’ The Fleming road, it has b-*n shown, is a byroad and not much traveled. There were three houses on the entire road, which is little less than three miles long. There is a house at each end of the road and one about the middle of it. The nearest schoolhouse is several miles south of It. The nearest grain market is the town of Fovisr, '•• a miles distant, and to rea-n a chuch by the Fleming road one would have to travel over into fH’nois. The testimony has brought out the fact that the road is not a main line road at all and that it is largely grown up to grass.