River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-12-14
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20.
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
All members answered to roll call.
Journal of Saturdays afternoon ses-
sion read and approved.
Petition from the Supervisors of the
Town of Maiden Rock for bridge aid
was received and referred to the Com
mittee on Roads and Bridges.
TO the County Board for Pierce County:
The town board of the town of Maiden
Rock in Pierce County, Wisconsin, hereby
represents:
list. That the electors of the town of
Maiden Rock in said Pierce county, Wis.
consin, at a special meeting, held in said
town on the 9Th day of November, A. D.
1905, voted to construct and build a new
iron bridge across Rush river in the said
the state road from Alma in Buffalo
county to Prescott in Pierce county
crosses the said Rush river in Section six
teen, Township twenty-four North of
Range sixteen West in said town of
Maiden Rock.
End. That said town has provided for
the payment of one-half of the cost of
the construction and maintenance of
said bridge, by levying a tax of one
thousand dollars to be used in the con-
struction and building of said bridge.
3rd. That the estimated cost of said
bridge is two thousand dollars.
18th. That the cost of said bridge ex-
ceeds One-eighth of one per cent Of all
the taxable property in said town, ac-
cording to it's last equalized valuation.
Wherefore, your petitioners pray that
the County Board of Pierce County, Wis
consin, appropriate one thousand dollars
or so much thereof as may be necessary
to defray one-half of the cost of the con-
Struction of such bridge and cause such
sum to be levied upon the taxable prop
erty of the county; agreeable to the pro-
visions of Section 1919 of the Revised
Statutes of the State of Wisconsin and
the amendments thereto
Dated this 9th day of November, A. d.
1905.
JNO. P. OLSON.
THOS. TODD,
Town Board of Supervisors of the
Town of Maiden Rock, Pierce Coun-
ty, Wisconsin.
CHAS. JULIAN.
Town Clerk of Town of Maiden
The following petition was read and
referred to the Committee on Roads
and Bridges
Pierce County:
We, the undersigned, residents and
freeholders of said County of Pierce, re-
siding in the towns therein, as stated
hereunder opposite our respective names,
do hereby petition you to discontinue a
portion of a highway extending through
the town of Martell, and along or near
the town line between the towns of Mar
tell and Gilman, in said county, which
portion lis described as follows, to-wit:
GnYor anY1ni a thn 1oY~to CT in hn
North line of Section 25; thence East on
section line $3.50 chains to right bank of
Rush River; thence North Is degrees, East
5.22 chains to a stake; thence North z
degrees West, Is. so chains across Rush
river to a post set on left bank at the
end of bridge across said river
Dated this LIST day of July, 1905.
SUBSCRIBERS.
Residing in Town of Martell-
A. S. RudeSilL
John NJ Stowell.
VIM. A. Kay.
w. H. Guiser.
H. Sheldrew.
C. c, Wifi.
A. S. Barg.
H. o. Fosmo.
John GuiSer.
G.. ForSeth.
G. Thompson
II. P. Wall
Theo Wenum.
N. G. Nelson.
f. L. Guiser.
AL. H Anderson.
Peter AmundSon.
Geo. Breitinger.
Residing in Town of Gilman
John Halvorson.
H. p. HalverSon.
Frank P. Carr
Peder HalvorSon.
Ed Hansen.
Peter MatheSon.
Nels Barg.