Mr. Romberg owns a tract of 28 acres west of Baileytown and demands $7,000 for a strip of land 1,700 feet long and 60 feet wide sought by the commision for the right of way strip, it is contended.

 This is said to have been the only case in which the commission found condemnation proceedings necessary, all other property owners along the route of the great continental highway having willingly donated the right of way.

 The disputed land is a part of the Gary-Baileytown section of Dunes highway on which the General Construction company of Gary holds the contract for building.

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²I would appreciate it if someone would clue me in on which crossing was Scott's.  My guess would be Duneland Drive but that's only a guess.  Go ahead; tell me I'm wrong.

 Imagine a swamp, formerly the bed of a lake, four miles long, covered with water from three inches to four feet in depth, carpeted with reeds and cattails six or eight feet tall, the bed of the swamp consisting of from three to six feet of muck underlaid with sand, and you have some idea of the character of the work that has to be done in building a roadway and making it as firm as the Alpian [sic] way of ancient Rome.

 According to the state engineer it has required as much grading to construct the first two miles of the road just east of Gary as ordinarily is required in grading 20 miles of average roadway.

 The first seven miles of the Gary end of the Dunes highway will require as much filling of swamps and excavation of sand dunes as the building of 70 miles of ordinary roadway.
 

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