Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-02-03
Roads, Old And New.

Since our country was first settled
there frequently some topic arises that
is discussed until it is worn thread
bare and has to give place to some
thing else. At present the topic un-
der discussion is the proposed new
road between Hurricane and Lancas-
ter.
Have the farmers counted the cost
of what the proposed new road will
cost? OF course no farmer will allow
the road to 90 through his farm with
out he is well paid for the privilege,
and even then it vii be under protest.
The old road has been good enough
for the farmers of Hurricane and Vi
entity to market all of their produce
over ever since it was first located.
OF course at certain time of the
year, like all Wisconsin roads, il is al
most impossible, but unless the roads
have been well gravelled they are
is going out Cf the ground.
If less than one-half the money
which it would take to put through
the 7e,c road were to be expended on
the OLD road it would make good
road out of that. And the Pigeon hill
on the Hurricane side can be avoided
altogether and that is much the worst
hill of the two. BY lea ling the main
road few roads north of Isaac Walk
ers' house, where he and Snider cor
ner, from there running a few rods
east to a hollow on Tom Treloar's
land and follow said hollow to the
foot of Pigeon hill. Said hollow runs
across the width of Tom Treloar's land,
the width of Henry Timm's land and
across forty acres of the Matthias
Henry's land, and it will not take two
acres of tillable land and | do not
think that one of said land owners
would object. 1t Will give Henry
Timm the present road that he can
till every foot of in place of land that
he cannot till at all.
| A road cannot be built from Hurri-
cane to Lancaster without having the
Pigeon hills to cross at some point,
but by changing that part of the road
| down the hollow, | spoke of, the worst
one of the Pigeon hills can be avoid
ed. If the present road were also
changed from the foot of FLINT Hill"
by Jas. Trelcars' gate, straight north
on to the Beetown road just east of
the Catholic cemetery as ''Flint Hill''
is one of the very worst hills between
| Hurricane and Lancaster. If those
two changes were made in the present
road it would not be hard road to
pull load over, and as the road is at
present the farmers haul from cord
to cord and quarter of green wood
over it.
The projectors of the proposed new
road claim that they do not propose
to call on either town or county to
open the road, but if said road is ever
put through it will be seen that after
the old road is vacated that the town
or county will have to complete it to
ever have it in any condition for trav-
ell and then unless it is gravelled the
full length of it, it will be as impass-
able in the spring of the year as is the
present road. The Pigeon hill next
to town is rather long hill but only
one hard pull, and that a short one, on
the hill and that can be remedied by
blasting off the sand rocks and gradu-
ally working the hill down to the foot
At all events the change could be
made in the old road at but fraction
of the cost it would take 10 build the
new road and although some might
not get the notoriety in changing the
old road that would be gotten by pull
ling through new one, vet vast
amount OF expense would be saved to
town and county and still have bet
ter road than is to be found in good
part Of Grant county. A CITIZEN.
MRS. NOBLE D6HD.