Boland Road Progressing

BOLAND ROAD PROGRESSING

Dexter Wants to Get Power House

CHANGING HIGHWAY

Scio Board Give Their Consent on Petition of Farmers on the Road

The progress of the Boland road is thus described by the Dexter Leader:

   The electric road still occupies the center of the stage and matters along the line of its completion have made considerable progress the past week.

   A report that is fraught with much interest to the people here is that a power house is to be built in Dexter. This report The Leader has not been able to verify, but can say such a report is current, and that it comes from very good authority.

   The resumption of work on the line west of Dexter is also a matter of more than passing interest. On Monday the fencing gang began operations including the fence on the outside of the tracks, the posts for which arrived last week. A gentleman from Chelsea informed The Leader Saturday that the material for laying the third rail is being drawn this way from Chelsea, and that the work of re-ballastlng and cleaning up the line is going along finely.

   That the electric road people propose to have their line as free from curves as it is possible to build it is evidenced by the trouble and expense they are going to to accomplish this end. At various points along the line they have reduced or eliminated curves by buylng valuable land or moving buildings at heavy expense, but the most important undertaking is that of moving the highway for a distance of 1014 feet in order to straighten their road bed.

   This change will be made east of Honey Creek, where there is a short bend in the highway near Arthur Lyon's west line.

   The J., A. A. & D. Co. propose to move the highway to the north four rods, and to run their line over the land now occupied by the highway. Their map calls for a strip of land 4 rods wide, commencing in the center of the highway, 411 feet from the N. and S. 1/4  line of section 23, thence on a OEVe to the right 1014 feet to a point on the west line of the E. % of the N. W. 14 of said section 23, where the center line of said highway as it now exists intersects at a point 448 1/2 feet N. of the E. and W. line of said section 23.

   The township board held a meeting Wednesday, Sept. 16,  and agreeable to a petition by the property owners of the highway in that road section, passed the following resolution:

   "Resolved, That the township of Scio grant the J., A. A. & D. Traction Co.  the privilege of changing the highway in section 23 agreeable to the map attached with the understanding that the railroad company grade the new road bed and leave it in as good condition as it is at the present time, the new road bed to be graded and put in condition for travel before the old road bed is disturbed. The new roadbed to be covered with gravel under the supervision of the hlghway commissioner."

  The proposed change will give general satisfaction. Not only will it enable the electric road Co. to build a much straighter track, but it will straighten the highway and take care of a bad piece in the road, thereby benefitting all concerned wlth no expertise to the taxpayers of the road district or township.