People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — Gravel Roads. Iroquois Ditch. [ARTICLE]

Gravel Roads. Iroquois Ditch.

The two improvements are moving to the front. The one is for better roads, requiring 835,000*worth of rock material. The other will require the excavation of 28,000 cubic yards of this material at a central point for distribution.' If the gravel roads are voted now, this loosened material can be furnished free for crushing and the drainage project save cost of storage.

If this will make the roads cheaper it saves to every tax payer. It will, in our opinion, save at least one-fifth pr 17,000 on the estimated cost of making the roads. If other material can be had cheaper no one is harmed. Every tax payer who is not in “the valley” should encourage deepening the channel now that competitive material for roads may be put in sight. Each one who will have to pay a ditch assessment should favor gravel roads, because of opening market for the mate rial excavated. Sit down and think this over and don’t oppose the project by reason of the other. %*