Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1888 — Free Turnpikes. [ARTICLE]

Free Turnpikes.

Rensselaer and the surrounding country would be greatly banefitted by improving the public highways leading from the adjacent neighborhoods to the tctvn. | These roads need to be straightened. The main road leading ! west should follow the section line and ibis would require a new route for only two miles. The highway leading east ought to have been built directly across the Iroquois river when the iron bridge was made and should still be straightened at that place. In the end this would pay. The roads leading north and south now have the proper direction. Each of these four roads should be made a good free torn-pike a distance of six miles. In order to invoke the power tc do this it is necessary for five or more land owners on each route to.present .a petition to the BoaTd of Commissioners. The stone material can be procured for the asking and quarrying from the Iroquois .Draining 4 ' CompanyGravel can be obtained on the north, stfutlr 1 Ms. Ths east line can be supplied by the ! ja. R. from Pleasant Ridge. This, I work is practicable and ought to be commenced at once. Making good, roads and draining our marsh lands are internal improvements which would jtnest a long felt want in Jasper county.