People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — GRAVEE ROADS [?] SAND PIKE. [ARTICLE]

GRAVEE ROADS [?] SAND PIKE.

Pilot: —The contractors of U.e gravel roads iudjns town--shin are at work on the south end of the college road. Tne grading was commenced last

week and the putting on of the gravel (or sand) on Monday last. The gravel that is being used on this road is secured from Mrs. Kannal's farm, commonly known as the Kannal sand bank, and has been extensively used heretofore as plastering sand. The same was used in the construction of the college building for brick and plastering mortar. The writer has visited the sand bank and docs not say but what there is some material that is tit for road purposes, but he will say that there is no practical way of getting at it. You will iind upon examination, the gravel in veins from 3 to 5 inches thick, and veins of sand from 8 to 12 inches. We voted for a gravel road and want to see one built, but if the people of Marion township don’t look to their interests they will get a sand pike that will be a public nuisance. It. is a matter of interest to every tax payer, from the fact mat Marion township must maintain it after it is built and tax payers will be called upon every year for repairs. So let one and all be on the alert for his interest and see that the road is made according to the required specification as voted for. la this we believe the commissioners have over stepped the line now. We undetstand they have cut the specifications on the slough grade from 32 to 25 feet, at the base. During the Wuk. i-usha ditch season, we were ta’d that no power on earth or in heaven could change the i .‘■pecitiealiuHS an eighth of an inch. Such moves as these derange our minds and we wonder '■! the constitution has been ' ch. nged. Tax Payer. i See the “Model’s” noby line. 1 of neckwear.