Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1905 — The Road System Finally Selected [ARTICLE]

The Road System Finally Selected

The stone roads ard street committee held their final meeting Wednesday evening, and completed the selection of city streets and township roads, to be included in a general system, and to be voted upon as one system, at an election and to be called by the county auditor. The system of streets heretufoie named and described in this paper are to be left in the system just as described, and the following streets and parts of s'reets were added,

Franklin street, the first north and south street east of the depot, and Webster street the first street east of Franklin were both continued on north three blocks from the railroad, or rather from Walnut, on north to Merritt which is practically the north line of the town. Oak and Park streets were both included for four blocks, or just half of their length. The imprevemant will s art at their west at Forest street and run to Webster street Oak and Park are east and we->t streets, north of the railrowd. They are the second and third streets north of and parallel with the depoL Leopold street was included for its entire length. This B‘reet is wholly in Leopold’s addition and is only three blocks long, and it is next to ths southernmost street in his addition Tne streets arts on Scrtt street and runs to thi east corp , rat ion line, on Melville street.

Tne Temaiaing three eastern blocks of Plum street were also added, namely from Scatt street to Me'ville. Plum street starts at Div’sion s'reet at Jey Williama’d residence and Weston Park, and runs east to the corporation line. The only change made—in the country reads, from that of the last meeting, was the adding on of a quarter mile more of the Burton road north of town, extending the improvement east frona Matheson avenue to A. P. Burton’s residence. A peri ion of this road is a’ready well improved. The entire proposed system foots up to about 15f miles of city streets and 17 miles of c:untry roads; the improved portions of streets that are on the boundary line of the corporation being considered half for the city and half for the ooun'ry. About 1| miles of the city streets that are included are already wholly or partly improved, and so also about the same d ; s tanoe of the country roads. The total mileage of county roads is about 17 miles.