The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-02-09
For The Journal.
" What Has Become of Our
State IfOad2"

pervisors that I am inclined to the opln-
ion that said "Citizen" is no other person
than one of the acting commissioners who
oficiated in laying out SAID State Road.
He says ''wc have certainly had such
road surveyed by Commissioners duly au-
thorized DC &c." and in proof of the
assertion says ''Every mark made on the
route is standing proof of this" | am
| unable to see how the stakes and blazes
on the trees indicating the route, prove
the authority of the persons acting as
Commissioners in laying out the road.
By no course of reasoning am able to
ccme to that conclusion. But if Citizens
reasoning is right, land I don't say but
it may beg then it IS an easy matter to
oct state road just whore you want, and
no one must dispute it, for there are the
stakes and blazes, in proof ofthe authori-
ty to lay such a road, and it will be the
duty of the town Board forthwith to open
it for private-U mean public USE.
AS to the competency Of the Commits
sioners. If any one will take the trouble
to make plot ofthe township, and then
mark out the road commencing at the 5.
w. corner of section sixteen, where the
road leaves the timber and follow these
very competent Commissioners in their
zigzag course toward town, then go back
again to the starting point, IS. W. cor
ner of sixteen) and draw straight Line to
tho Greenwood House taking it for
granted that that is about the center of
tho town) and you will leave the dreadful
lane at least half of mile to the right Of
the route. l do not doubt their compe-
tency at all, to lay out road so as to
make saleable, unsaleable town lots, AMI
accommodate other town ste propr'etors
who probably assis ted in surveying the
road, rather than accommodate the public.
Where the road leaves the timber it is
three and one half miles from town.
Now by following the state road in its
cro oks and turns you have to travel at
least four, or four and one half miles, land
I am not sure but fve) to get into town.
By tho by friend Citizen, when we
are drought up standing plump agin the
! fence" how far must we travel to the left
to 90 that half mile directly out of our
way? Let us see, to the left is west. and
when we are drought up standing plump
agin the fence we are two miles east of
town and one mile south, then to 60 that
half mile directly out of our way to the
left we must 60 two and a half miles west
Ito the left mean) and then that Emile
north" will bring us half mile west of
town, at least two and half miles nearer
town than when we were drought up
standing plump agin the fence instead of
sthree fourths of mile" as stated by Cit
izen. H b
Now, Mr.. Citizen, look at your map
again. then take the old slate and CIPHER
away and see if your adding, multiplying
and subtracting is correct. No, no. friend,
such arguments won't go down at all;-
they contain too many bare-faced absur-
dities; the cloyen foot is to be seen; you
have not got it hid; it needs no micro
scope or telescope to see the whole drift
of the article it is for electioneering pur-
poses,-to carry out darling project.
Really, Mr.. Citiz en-, you have piled
Messrs. Pratt with soap pretty free
", but with SO much irony, I think it
will hardly take. Why should not the
whole tax of that road district be put on
the lane! 1t is the only road in the dis
trict and it is just where the citizens of
that vicinity need and wish it to be. And
here I would say, that a portion eff the
ground on which the state road is laid,
will take more work to make it passable,
than the lane which he so humbly be-
seeches the citizens of said district to let
alone. know myself, from personal
knowledge, that the above assertion is
true. | suppose ''the people" wouldn't
travel any road, unless necessity COMPEL
ed them to. I sincerely hope that Citi-
zen's heart will not swell so large or fast
as to burst with his gratitude. The fact
is, this "Citizen" is well aware that an
other year will see "the lane" one of the
best roads in the township, IN / that now
is the best chance to make capital to gull
"the people" about s:that mud hole be-
ing such a horrible thing Such are the
Acknowledgements of portion of those
who have been bowling SO long about
that s.mud hole," or lane, whichever you
please to call it.
Our. town Board of Supervisors have
wisely let the State Road alone although
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