Boland Route Will Be Changed

BOLAND ROUTE WILL BE CHANGED

Surveyors Making a New Line Through Dexter

CITIZENS NOT SATISFIED

Company Plan to Get Around School Hill and Avoid Delays in Going Through Town

Dexter people are much excited just now concerning the actions of the Boland line engineers. Last week the Dexter council granted the electric line a new franchise on Main and Ann Arbor streets, through the center of the town, and a day or two later the surveyors came along and began laying out a new route and getting options on right of way. The Dexter Leader says concerning it:

The object of this is said to be for the purpose of avoiding the school house hill. The proposed route contemplates a depot and transforming station where the laundry building stands. From there the road will follow the bank on the side of the mill pond to the foot of F street, crossing the Dunlavey property in a southerly direction, across the lots of the Stevens estate, across G street, striking E. Jedele's lot where the ball grounds are at corner of Forest Lawn cemetery, continuing south across Holzhauer, Goodrich and Warner properties to the south road which it crosses at Nicholas Webber's north line, thence onto D. E. Hoey's land through which it passes until it strikes the Ann Arbor road at the company's right of way on the Jas. Morrison farm. The route would be almost a perfect curve around the southern boundary of the village and passing through a low piece of ground would avoid the hill and require but little grading; aside from crossing the streets the company would be on its own right of way.

It is also stated that one of the principal reasons why the company desires the change is in order to avoid delay in going through the town, and also to avoid possible accidents. Speed is considered an important factor in the success of the enterprise, and the proposed changes along the right of way will be made to gain it.

While various advantages to the company are pointed out from the change of route, it would hardly be satisfactory to the majority of the people of Dexter, although some favor it. Others think that when the time comes the company will build through the streets according to the franchise granted, and that it is getting the other route so as to be in an independent position in case the grade line established by the council be unsatisfactory to them.

All these things are talked about and thought about and the public tongue is very busy.