Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-06-14

We have received communication from F. Per-
Rims of Burlington, stating that we did not give a
correct representation of the facts connected with
the building of the Southport and Burlington road
in our remarks in the last weeks Telegraph. We
can assure MIR. Perkins that if we misstated III.
matter, it was altogether unntentional He re-
quests us to re-publsh communication from III.
American, being explanatory of the matter. "a
he wishes it before the public accordingly we give
place to tire following communications
BURLINGTON AND SOUTHPORT ROAD
This road was laid out in 1871. over dry burr
oak plains, ridges and elevated praries of moderae
undulatlon passing over comparatively little ground
subject to foundations by the redundant rains. and
passing through the town of Paris, very near the
centre, Offering. said, greater facilities for
superior road, the expense of which would be fri
fling, considering the length OF the road, and also
beng three miles nearer than any other road from
the centre and heart OF Walworth county, Spring
and Gardners Pralres and the Burlington mills to
Lake Michigan. 1t passed also through section
OF country very thlnly settled there being only
three families on the whole route directly on fhe
road, and some fifteen twenty families little off
the road, yet much nearer this than any other road
tor their accommodation, and none other which thew
could ever expect to travel
would elapse before any tolerable road would be
made without foreign aid; wherefore contrbu
ton, by individual subscription, was circulated TO
be paid IN various commodities, labor, &C., as the
work progressed or the road was completed, so as
to be good for the travelling public as any one
from the western shore of Lake Michig gan into the
Interior The subscri ption was for the benefit of
any individual or association who would engage
IN the enterprise. Without any committee to con.
tract or superlntend the work. the subscriptions
were SAID to foot little more than 5000, probably
not worth in cash $500 or half of the cost of ma
king such road, but further encoura remepts were
gwen OF extending the subscription, and of cons-
derabe highway work, to aid the undertaking. as
many OF the inhabitants had little other means to
bestow; and as no other person could be found to
engage In the enterprise, so important to Waworth
county, and the country through which it passed
Ephralm Perkins was induced TO commence the un-
dertaklng with liberty to abandon whenever he
chose, as the means already subscribed were vever
considered more than half adequate to the cost of
making the road.
Now we the subscribers do feel ourselves mucb
injured by the Commissioners and Overseers of
highways IN the town of Paris, by being dragged
away from this the only road we expect to use and
compelled to work our highway taxes on some re-
mote road, at far greater distance from our homes
to work on roads tor other use than for the be.
neflt OF very few individuals who live thereon al.
lowing but one tax to be worked on this road and
that by woman.
We feel too that it is an act of wanton exercise
OF power over ri ght that savors so much of spirit
of revenge both towards him who has aided in the
construction of road of such vast benefit to the
town as well as to ourselves that it ought TO be ex
posed to public Indignation, and we hereby request
the editors of the Southport papers to give this an
insertion in their columns.
JOHN LEONARD, JOHN Hunt, THos HuyT.
fATRIck LANE, A. PHILIPS, WIN. STRONG,
ANE. HANNAH, J. CRAxrY, G. Fo,soy.
r. MARsroN, S. E. Brown, ]. J. Corriy.
L. H. HANNAH, w. COFFIN,