The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191?, July 15, 1904, Image 11

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, July IS , t9u4 'I'IIE F.\LLS CITY TRIBL'XE ' " !
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G."instead on Drainage
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j } Making .tnd 1maintaining good
roads ; in hc most economical ]
i way is ! at this time thc concur-
) rent desire of all citil.Cn of this
J ; 'county. In this wc should ! be
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careful to avoid 1I11st lkc .
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. , ' _ ,
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The object , of this survey waf
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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
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INGLINCIWORLD'S SHOWSJ GRETEST I
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o aQlel , e ONLY
PAIR
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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.
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_ 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
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SCEB E pvJER'1'SALEIiR. '
5 orI LART i. cTtA Tq 15 PEEn : ©
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3 LOf G (7T A PARRE
MILES SUCH AS THE
OF NEW '
2 - - oC1tY RHJNOCF , o1 ORL ® HAS NEVER
AND COSTLY 1tOcsgcTlNG SEAS of
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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-
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DOUBLE , , .
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8M1 RAILROAD LENGTH AIr )
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1280. PEOPLE
650 HORSES i I
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$3,700,000 GAP TAL ! .
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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.
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Don't forget that thc owner ; ;
of thc bottom lands will , at their . . -
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own expense , make itspossible ] , tci
have rood roach across these bot-
toms by putting this watcr-plane
entirely below the surface of the . , . .
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ground and lt the same timc'4' .
quadruple the value ] of their own
lands ; in many ways greatly to
the advantage of a1. ] V
Yours truly ] ,
R. E. Grinstead. ' :
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