CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - WYNOT TO BOTTOM ROAD GRADED NOW
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CEDAR COUNTY NEWS MAY 16, 1929

WYNOT TO BOTTOM ROAD GRADED NOW

HISTORIC OLD TRAIL IS BEING GRADED INTO A FINE MODERN HIGHWAY

Grading is now in progress, on the road from Wynot to Brocke’s Bottom. 
When completed in a about a month. The new road will be one of the 
County’s finest hiways, displacing one of the historic trails leading 
from the first settlements skirting the river to the heart of Cedar 
county.

Unlike the present time, the old trail bore ox-cart traffic from the 
bottom to the wild and unsettled part that is now Fordyce, Hartington, 
Coleridge, Laurel, Randolph and Beldin and back. Today, the new hiway 
will bear darting gay-colored autos, hogging trucks, and heavy vans 
from the well-built inner towns of Nature’s last stronghold, the river 
bottom with original trees and free spaces.

In keeping with the modern way of doing things, old trees and large 
rocks that have made zig-zags in the old trial are being blasted aside 
so that the road will take folks more speedily to where they want to go. 

Also keeping with the practice of getting the quickest with the least 
effort, a large tractor has been purchased to replace the smaller one 
in the maintenance equipment in Alfred Anderson’s district. the change 
was made at suggestion of Dillion Cook, the work that was done in 12 
hours is now being done in 5 hours and where two men formerly worked one 
man is now working with even better results.

The Wynot communty also boasts one other piece of excellent road work, 
done this spring. This is the new grade put in from Wynot to St. James, 
and which has been made high and with good drainage, so that washouts 
seem unlikely.