Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1919 — NOT A SMELL FOR MARION AND CARPENTER TOWNSHIPS [ARTICLE]

NOT A SMELL FOR MARION AND CARPENTER TOWNSHIPS

In County Unit Highways Estimated to Cost $346,051.71. * The reports of the county commissioners and engineer on the various county unit highways petitioned for have been filed and the matter now goes before the, county council for its acceptance or rejection. The total estimates aggregate >346,051.71, and the two largest townships, Marlon and Carpenter, which would pay about one-half 'of the entire cost, get not one mile of the proposed roads. h’he estimated cost of the roads by townships follows: Kankakee and Wh'tfield. >62,675.118 Union 28,086.64 Gilliam and Walker.... 24,866.25 Barkley 39,476.81

Hanging Grtve 38,643.94 Milroy 35,349.75 Jordan ? 35,090.46 Newton t • • 64,868.28 Co. line bet. Jasper and Pulaski counties .... 17,017.00 (Of the latter amount Jasper county pays but one-half.) n This is a mighty big sum of money to expend at this time, when the cost of road building is about twice or three times as much as it should be under normal conditions, and many of these roads are not of general travel and the petitions should be turhed down by the county council, whose honest endeavor should be to approve only the roads most urgently needed and those which will be of the greatest benefit to the -county as a —