The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-05-21
THE COUNTRY ROADS OF MANI
TOWOC COUNTY.
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The most important question, by far,
for the people of this county to solve
satisfactorily, is how can the roads in
this county be improved and made passa-
BILE at all times Of the year? Everybody
complains about these roads, rightly too;
everybody admits that the system of i'm
proving them is ali wrong; still COM
plants keep on multiplying while nothing
is being done to work change for the
better. Is there no remedy? Let us see.
The farmers claim that If tax be
levied for road purposes and the work
let out on contract, instead of each farm
er working out his share of the tax as is
now the custom, that it would be great
Improvement. This plan should then be
adopted, but that would not prove TO he
all that is needed.
The farmers living along the main roads
the Calumet, Sheboygan, Green Bay,
Centervllle, Reedsville, Mlshicott, Two
Rivers and other roads claim that it is
impossible for them to keep these roads
in halfway decent condition because the
people of the whole country back of them
use these roads more then than they do
themselves, by far, and break them up
faster than they can repair them. The
farmers from twenty miles back complain
that the nearer they get to the city the
worse the roads become, and that their
teams are obliged to exert themselves
most after they are already tired out
from pulling heavy load over a long
distance. These farmers have perfect
right to complain all of them. Those
living on the main roads leading to the
city cannot be expected do to much more
for others than others do for them; they
may for a while, but at last they will be-
come discouraged. Those coming from a
distance have a right to demand good
roads when they strike the main roads
way out to do that which all admit should
be done-to put the main roads in good
condition? Yes, there is an easy solution
to this seemingly perplexing question
The law authorizes county boards to APP
propriate annually sum not exceeding
eight thousand dollars for the purpose
of improving highways. Now then, sup
posing that the county board should
land it ought to do something IN this di-
rection). at its next annual meeting,
appropriate, say only three thousand
dollars for this purpose, to be used
wherever they deem it most necessary,
to aid those living on the most travelled
that any of our county boards ever made.
Appropriate like amount annually and
we would soon hear from every direction
expressions of satisfaction instead of
complaints, for it would be an expenditure
that would save many thousands of dol
lars annually and in time wear and tear,
to the many who make use of these roads,
and that means nearly every person in
the county. We should like to have a
new court house, but we are in greater
need of good roads, and if must be the
building of new court house could be
postponed for eight or ten years. by
building a Jail on some adjoining lot,
making two good offices out of the four
in small building and tearing out every
thing in first floor of court house, which,
with small addition, would make three
good offices with tire-proof vaults. and at
small expense-for "a few
years interest on $4,000, the approx
mate cost of court house.
Those who remember the court house
Milwaukee had when that city contained |
over sixty Thousand inhabitants, will adj |
init that we can If necessary with a few |
changes similar to those indicated, get |
along without new court house quite |
for a long time. -
To THE EDITOR Pilot: A few weeks |
ago | mailed you a specimen of my ability |
as poet. You returned it SAYING Won |
could grind out better poetry ont of a |
machine. Now I don't mean TO |
allow my budding genius to be crushed. |
Please insert the following at your resu-
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and charge TO j. STANLEY MURPHY.
THE POEM.
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Cruel sand A cruel wave arose and
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