Show it aff C FOR BETTER ROADS IN IOWA joint sub committee of legislature makes recommendation concerning highway improvement As the result 0 ol il 11 deliberations for some weeks by the committees of the loma iowa senile senate and house the joint sub committee made the bollom following ing rec concerning road legis lation state highway corn com mission ample authority au thorit corn mission sr 0 ri to consist ot or three members appointed P P 1 led by governor three mern mem hers bers to select competent state high way may engineer county engineers for all counties to be employed by b supervisors with mith ap pro proal al of com commission classification of all hIgh highways mas into county and township roads from 10 to 15 per cent of roads in county to be designated as county roads to be under supervisors and county engineer all moneys expended on oil these thee roads to be in line of 0 permanent work no money to be paid except on approval of engineer all bridges and cult gilberts erts county and township to be built in accordance with mth genethal plans of state highway commission under direction of coun ty engineer all township work morl to be put by trustees in hands of one man to be known as superintendent of township roads who mho shall make all contracts contract i for dragging and temporary repairs tm two a mill levy to be placed in com drag fund to be paid out by b bope superintendent rin tor for that purpose only in case superintendent does of grading on oil to township unship roads the count engineer must go oer roads t 4 SS V r I 1 A chats road in jasper county mo chats Is a term for mill tailings from the mining district gibing profile so that grading can be done systematically and tomu township ship roads may tip br put in same condition as roads designated as county roads roada it if the legislature will mill put these recommendations into a properly drawn bill and pass it loma iowa will have mado mada a long step forward in handling the road question certainly the money spent on the roads m will ill be better spent under competent supervision says saya wallaces farmer these recommendations however do not directly encourage a beginning in the way may of hard roads it would seem that this legislature should do something in the way of stimulating permanent road construction in those sections where public sentiment Is ripe for it no good will mill come from trying to force good roads roada in earn corn muni ties where here the people are satis fled fied with mith dirt roads dut but the state can m well ell afford to levy a one mill tax and spend the money to defray a portion of the cost of permanent roads in in the county or municipality and the abutting land owners will mill bear the greater tion not 1 a I great deal of permanent road could be constructed in this way but enough to serve as an object les son and this will mill be all that is feces sary A one mill tax would amount to only 2 on each quarter section farm surely the owner of acres of loma iowa land ought to he be willing filing to contribute that much toward expert mental hard roads it seems so much worth morth while that we wonder that such strenuous objection is made to it |