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Maintenance: of the eight hard roads touching Will County to be built if the $100,000,000 bond scene carries, is assured, as a result of ad ditional funds which will accrue and the perfection of a maintenance or ganization, protecting ‘Will county residents from further expenditure for the upkeep of the highways. The bond issue will be voted on at the general section in November, 1924. Will Prove Economical. The roads, it is believed, will be an economy for the community from all viewpoints, saving the motorist on cost of gasoline and the horse drawn vehicle in time of transportation. The two maps cow present paved roads and those proposed by the bond issue. Experiments show that the saving | on-gasoline-consumption—on-a_paved road compared with a dirt road aver age about 1% cents per car mile, according to Frank T. Sheets, state superintendent of highways, in an article on the road situation based on a report which was compiled in March of this year. Since these figures were prepared several hundred miles of roads have een built by the state. Mr. Sheets’ Comment in detail is as follows: “Figures compiled by the state department of highways show that in 20 years, not only the entire cost of the road, principal and interest ‘would be saved, but in addition more ‘than enough money to rebuild if necessary the entire improvement. ‘The figures also show that’ the pave ‘ment would have earned the rodd ‘users 8% per cent per annum ‘over Boog = feces above all first cost and interest Shows Saving in Gas. “Following is the department's table sharing the saving in cost of gas to road users. Total fret ret cost and in- Ser over 20-yr. period... 43,450.00 per mi. ae 20 ae ee ae 447, 800.00 per mil. vaeds. $ 2,890.090 per mi. _ “Already completed are about 1650 miles on the present state bond issue’ system of. 4800 mile. Unless unfer ween conditions should arise, the state would complete ‘approximately 1900 niles more roads by the end of 1924. This will leave approximately 1209 niles of the system uncompleted, and oae n all funds except current revenues will have been exhausted. “Even tho the new bond issue may not be provided the state department says it will carry out the expressed desire of the people by spending for roads within the next two years, all available funds which can be judi ciously and economically used. These roads will be delivered to the people as fast as possible, as long as the money lasts. Last year the state completed 740 miles of pavement, 547 miles of which lay on the state bond issue system .The main cause of limited road production In past years is said to be due to the fact that universal con struction practice has been to jam into the brief space of 120 days the burden of producing and transporting the road materials for an entire year’s program. Under contract now are approximately 800 miles of pave ment, of which about 700 are on the state bond issue systm. Appropriations Authorized. “Federal aid appropriations have been authorized and not s tate are as follows: Available July 1, 1921 ......% Bee 000, 90 July, 64, view ty 2: F64,000.00 July 1, 1923 555. ° 72,814,000.00 July 4, 1834.. . 3.246,000.00 id ent 1.00 Balance ‘covered by outstand ing contracts or yet to be 4 obligated. .5...45,...1$11,870,000,00] Eetimat collections 19%: BHA IEEE is cachharcdess in $,000,000.907 Balches to be collected in 7 - 1928.55 Gewese: + éesnee$ 5,370,000,00! A ingreven and expenditures for the next two years the following estimates based on present scale of mot are made, for fees, Revenues 1923 and 1924. Balance on December 28, 1922, in road fund (Motor license: FOOB) ores co a resssdances oh 1,148,600 Motor fee collections for 1923 9,250,000.00 Motor few collections for 1924 10,750,000.00 Balance in bond fund Decem bee 2 UBF as voss nen! 226,000.00 unsor 1922 $43,000, 0000880 71 ++ 42,876,000.00 Probable Federal aid collec ons 1923 and 1924....... 8,000,000. 00) —_, Total cash for 1923 ang OEE Shineri sce Oe dae spalTae 060.061 ures 1923 and 1924, ndit re iM papa s0e orales pavement re 00 per mile ,....... $22,400,090.00] seee 000 miles pave kane nent @ $28,000 per mile... 2$,090,060.00| ministration, engineering, anautomste and contingen , eses Bisst and automobile license fees paying ‘the whole bill. “The present average Acenge fee of Illinois is $10.10 per car. ‘The weighted average for the ‘United States is about $11.70 per car, making the Illinois average lower than the ‘average for the nation. “Not a bond will be sold nor a cent of interest paid, until the money is needed for actual construction. This policy ‘has prevailed in the case of the old $60,000,000 bond issue which was voted in 1918. The suggested $100,000,000. roading ’ policy: would set up a definite system of ‘highways, would ensure their early’ ‘completion and would stand like a truck in the path of reactionaries who would divert motor fees to be frit tered away in temporary road work. Wil County to Benefit. The eight highways which wil l benefit Will County are: ~ “Route 49. Beginning at a point at Willow Hill and extending in a northerly direction. to southerly jetty limits of Chicago, ing Y$1¢, Casey, Westfeld, Kansas, Brecton, Homer, Ogden Chana Park, Crescent City, Kankakee, Peotone, Monee, Harvey and Chicago and the inter vening communities reasonable con nections with each other. “Route 60. Beginning at Monee and extending in a northerly direc tion to the southerly city limits of Chicago, affording Monee, Oak Forest ,Oak Lawn and Chicago and the in tervening communities reasonable connections each other. _, “Route 61, Att. point on Route 44, east of Wilton Center, and [Sstending in a_northerly direction to justice, affording Andres, Ft, fra. Pace Bote ee tervening pew aa ktepingr reasonable connections each other. Route 53. Beg at a point on Route 22, ai ee Seertak Day, and extending in a southerly and easterly direction to the Indiana state line near West Hammond, aft. Palatine, Glen Eltyn, Lisle (run over Route 4 from a point south of Lisle to a point west of Lockport, Lockport, Oak Forest, West Hammond and interven communi zes reasonable connections with each other. ‘Route 69. Beginning at a point on Route 69, south of Plainfield, and extending in a northerly direction to Antioch, affording Plainfield, West Chicago, Barrington, Onda, In sleside, Antioch and the Interger communities reasonable connections with each other. _ “Route 66, Beginning at Yorkville and extending in an ‘easterly direc ttion to an intersection, with Route 4 at a point northwest, of Lemont, af fording Yorkville, Plainfield and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. “Route 69. Beginning at Joliet and extending in a westerly direction to [a ‘intersection with Route 2, at a Point west of Troy Grove, affording Joliet, Lisbon, Serena, Troy Grove and the ‘intervening communities Reasonable connections. . “Route 113. Beginning at Kanka- Keel and extending in a northwesterly to an intersection with Kana, at Morris, affording k A Wilmington, Braidwood,. ‘ ‘eal City, Morris and the intervening unit: reasonable connects nine-foot pavement, on each side of the Kankakee river between Kanka kee and Wilmington.” Route 47, under the proposed $100,000,000 bond issue would pro vide Kendall county with another paved road, following the highway now known as the Conklin road. At present this highway is of gravel construction. It is one of the main north and south roads thru Kendall county. now, and with the ac tion of the concrete highway under the new bond issue, the county will have a paved highway running north and south cutting it” very nearly. in hell. The proposed routes will be the f irst to extend more than a few miles! Within the county, The long issue; Proposed roads would give the county two highways thru the whole territory, with the intersection of the north and south road with the east and west paving two and one half miles east of Lisbon, and half way between Morris and Yorkville, the county seat. The proposed route, No. 47, is de scribed as follows: — _ “Beginning at a point on Route 18 between Seymour and Champaign and ‘extending in a northerlya tion to the Wisconsin state line, fording G City, Sibley, Forrest twith sus connection to Em ‘nington), * Dwight, Morris,Torks ville, Elburn, Huntley, Woodstock the vi able BROWN SANGA STATE OF ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS “© BUILDINGS DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS STATE BOND ISSUE ROAD SYSTEM TO BE BUILT UNDER PROVISIONS OF, $100,000,000 BOND ISSUE LAW ADAMS LEGEND r tae andév er UT TO a un- Nar Shonen NOTE: STATEMENT This state-wide system of roste. is to be im proved with Federal sid appropriations, surplus co « SCHUYLER essen, ‘The routes as shown on the map are tentative only. ‘The exact location between points in the law, as wel l, all details of construction, eit te wenn bby the De partment of Public Works and Buildings, see Governor's approval. Subject :The total principal and interest of outstanding road aeesan of the proposed road bonds will be paid from the automobile OF stator vehicle license fees. No direct tax. LEN SMALL, Governor “ScoTT JERSEY FULTON, cass MorRor Jodaviess to be within thirty from date of. bearing interest d nt od ae on a il or free of ta,ing be durable. paved nine to twenty feet wide. If roads, paved under State aid law by a county with county or township funds and so, by the State, are the State is to town. Bila neds pre ose as to pay the county or ease cote bond lose to ate sll be I before Seek to nether encom i of REMEMBER, Rove Sz cnt tg ate do ne interest of ts be , — REMEMBER, Prince sn bonds to be paid entirely from moter fees. No sTeen 7azewel “HERARD S STARK PEORIA MAtoison CLIN | RANDOL| iron WASHINGTON gerre| wor 'DEKALS MARS poone on trson SALLE EFFin, @ru [Mam MAMIL “Tort Rhue WHITE RAMBAREE KHAM line savers sAMD ‘clam en braweor VERMILE, LAWRE ROADS PROPOSED IN $10,000,000 BOND ISSUE
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Joliet Sunday Herald News
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