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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (July 15, 1904)
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Ahout . five { years ago the halls " City t Precinct Board of Super- visors had thc Cq unty Surveyor and his to Intke ' ' of deputy ; < c survey road from center of section H South to a point near center of , section 21 , thence in a S. 1'i. direction a short distance to thc i f 1'\emaha ; iver. , ' _ , i The object , of this survey waf ' 1 for letting ] ; contract to ltl.il . : e n graded dirt road from center of : 'ctin H " ) to center : or , j' wit.h ixra"ation from center of section 21 to river for outlet ] of stlrf.ac\ , . . ' wat'I' . li'rblll thc center 01' 1G ] to the top bank of the river the sur- face raises gradually to an elevation - tion of ,313 feet : ' hence to give water < 1 channel on each side of road a 12 inch fall to the river , beginning at center ' 01' H witll channel one foot deep , thc same was made gradually deeper until .lt the river the bank was \ cut a- way until the c1'ptl1 of thc chaJl- l1el was 5/ feet below , surface This dirt was hauled ( to the north end of the road HO that when the t road was finished np the grade was approximately le1.1. . The \ road was all right until thc water raisld in the riti l'r to within about 316 feet of tpp of bald \ . whcn the water ran out into Cllld over banks at north llHl of channel ] near center uf 16. The water breaking thc banks il- I'ove in times of Hood carne clown onto this grade at the north end \ \ here ] the trouble had been be- fore and now thc road is impass- ahle The surveyor insisted at the time that this work would be worse than useless and should not bc donc' but recommended l that a channel should be cut from about the N. W. corner of S.\C./of S. 1. l ! /of t 16 belonging 1 - longing GY. . Fishier \ ; , runn- lug i about S. 75 degrees g. to intersect - tersect road running south from Burlington depot to l11ith's Mill near bridge across ravinc. I this had been done , or could Ill' done yet , with a umcicni \\'ater-wlY ; at or near center of section lCl and the channel were made two to three feet deep and five / feet widcand the aforesaid glade were made 12 or 18 feel wide 1 foot high inn center with water channel on each side 1 foot in depth emptying into charnel running S. 75 E. from center ' of Ih.Ye say if this had been done instead of what was done them thc result : : would have beep wo1'tlr the money expende(1. ' [ 'his was recommended by thc County SUI'\'eyor. The , Board was excusablC' . however because , , . ' . . " . , _ . . . . . . . < < , , . ) ' ; 4o - . , , ' . , - - - - - - - - _ . F ails C0 tT . [ ! { J . ' \ : Y' fr ' , . : . r:1'T' , . . .co I , , , . . . ' T r . , .f : . ' . : ; : " t1 . 1 , 'tit . { , .t . a. ? h.v 4 .b 't V . ' : 0I. a ' q ' E. ' \ .r a. . b. ' : ) ) ; oa' : t , < y i ' ; .i = ) ( ; 1 " 4. ! . 'S'I" .r' . . , : . . .2. ; v INGLINCIWORLD'S SHOWSJ GRETEST I " \ t" . " , jJ. BROS.\ p _ I o aQlel , e ONLY PAIR ' ik y , , Of , ' ' ELDREDS ' . FULL I ti GROWN t EUROPEAN NOVELTY i GIRAFfES ' a7 RIDERS. IN - CAPTIVITY. THE BIGGEST SHOW ON EARTH N AND T F ! E C R U A D E , . 1200 CH ARACTLRB IN THE . CAST. 30/ DANCING WHICH is NOWAD OQpNITr10UT ANY AD. pIT10N IM PQICQ. TrtQ dUOLiMQ BPIICTACI. SINGERSOO STOPUPIPGAORGAN. . : OOO COSTUME. . COPYRIGHT 190) 0 TMC COURIER CO.OurrALoNY. . - . . iI' ' " 1 [ _ " - _ ABSOLUTELY I.N AD- . DITIONf'\L TRAIN OF _ i CARS ARE REQUIRED TO CARRY THE SCEN- ERY. WARDRODES. AR - MORG. WAR IMPLE- MENTS. ACCESSORIES AND PEOPLE OF THE NEWLY ADDED AND ENORMOUSLY GRAND SPECTACLE OF JERUSALEM - AND THE - CRUSADES : . . SCEB E pvJER'1'SALEIiR. ' 5 orI LART i. cTtA Tq 15 PEEn : © o I AREM1I 3 LOf G (7T A PARRE MILES SUCH AS THE OF NEW ' 2 - - oC1tY RHJNOCF , o1 ORL ® HAS NEVER AND COSTLY 1tOcsgcTlNG SEAS of ; AcnoanTS IN CAPTIVITY S SEEtd BEFORE Lf- PARADE GLORIES EPEE DPO 1 THE STREETS EVERY 1vORNE C AT 10 O'CLOCK TWO PERFORMANCES DAILY AT , 2 AND a P. M. DOORS OPEN AT 1 AND 7 P. M. ONE 60-CENT TICKET ADMITSTO EVERYTHINC. CHILDREN UNDER 12HALF PRICE Admission Tickets and Numbered Reserved Seats \vili be on sale Show Day at _ The King Pharmacy It : : exactly the same prices charged at regular ticket wagons on the Show Gr 1nds. ' " , of the fact that some of the land owners refused to give right of way for channel greenly to their OWII disadvantage This ditch if it had been made then would now probably ; be 10 feet deep and 10 feet wide and would have doubled the value of every man's land through which it would run , by relieving the bro d bottoms materially in that vicinity of thc congestion of water in times of overflow. What was done how- ever simply aggravated instead , of relieving the unfortunate con- " ' _ _ _ " _ A. - _ - ' . - . J' " ) } rr" ' " ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 'L. . ' . DOUBLE , , . ( DOUBLE yap ! EJ I 8M1 RAILROAD LENGTH AIr ) I 1280. PEOPLE 650 HORSES i I , - . I $3,700,000 GAP TAL ! . ' - - . . . . - - - - - - . . . . . , d i tions , I mention this case in particular because . of thc fact , that wc arc Llll .in distress together - gcther over the deplorable con- dition of the roads , and we may in our great eagerness to better them do the wrong thingo There is perhaps not a town- ship in thc county that hits not a piece of road sItuated similarly to the one described and at which place the same kind of a mistake may be madc. Salem ] has four different roads on which thc same mistake can be ltladr. - - ' < . . . - . . - - . " . . . . . . . . ' 1"'r.L.I.L. L ' 11.111JHLt.r,1. ; : C , ? : j : V'.P\ I tJ n 'r. " 0 LITTLE A EIG rJ D EiEPEiATS : ! \ _ I ! 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