This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Unton, Ross, McCammond, Toland Classification: lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/7548/mb.ashx Message Board Post: SIDNEY ARGUS-HERALD. August 8, 1929. "LAYING CONCRETE TO GET GOING BY FRIDAY. After Many Delays All Is Now In Readiness For Start Tomorrow. FORTY BIG TRUCKS HAULING". -- Following a week of busy preparations, pouring of cement on No. 3 (sic) will begin tomorrow, according to information from the resident engineer's office. Some delay in receiving machinery was encountered to prevent the work starting Monday, as was intended. Some last minute changes in water sources and repairs on the mixer will be completed so that operations will begin Friday without much doubt. A fleet of forty trucks under the supervision of J. W. Unton will be employed to haul the materials from the depot to the mixer. This number will gradually decrease as the distance of haul is lessened. A haul of approximately eight miles will be made at first, since that is the point of beginning. Water for the mixing will be obtained from McCammond's spring east of town and driven to the mixer through pipelines by a triplex pump capable of exerting 300 pounds pressure at the spring. Cement for the job will come in bulk this year and be unloaded on a platform which was completed Wednesday. Scales on the platform will weigh the amount of cement necessary for each load of sand and gravel. Last year the cement was shipped in sacks weighing approximately 100 pounds each.....etc... N.B.: "Eight miles east of the Sidney depot" would be near the Farragut intersection of the old highway between Sidney and Shenandoah. I don't know when No. 3 became known as Highway No. 2. McCammond's Spring is a new name to me. As I understand it, Toland Springs became the source of Sidney's water supply just before the first World War. Sidney obtained a 100-year lease of the Toland springs at that time. Perhaps the ownership of these springs changed between then and 1929. Thirdly, it appears that some cement had been layed in 1928. I wonder where this was? -- W.F. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.