River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
PETITION FROM TOWN OF HART
LAND FOR BRIDGE AID.

TO the Honorable the County Board of
Pierce County:
The town board of the town of Hart
land, in Pierce county, Wis, hereby re-
spectfully represents as follows, to-wit:
That the electors of the said town of
Hartland, at a special meeting held in
said town on the 9th day of October,
1885, voted to construct and build a>new
steel bridge across the Isabelle creek in
said town, on the highway crossing said
creek in the northeast quarter Of the
southeast quarter of section tWenty-eight
(28), of township twenty-five (25) north, of
range seventeen % west, to replace the
old bridge crossing said creek at that
place.
That the estimated cost of said bridge
is fourteen hundred dollars $1,4000O, and
that said town of Hartland has provided
for the payment of one-half of the cost
of the construction of said bridge by
levying a tax of seven hundred dollars
(7O0.OO, to be used in the construction
and building of said bridge.
That the cost of said bridge exceeds
one-eighth of one per cent of all the tax
able property in said town, according to
the last equalized valuation thereof,
which is $555 10000.
Wherefore your petitioners pray that
the County Board of Pierce County, Wis
consin, appropriate, the other one-half, or
seven hundred dollars, of the estimated
cost of construction and building of said
bridge, and cause such sum to be levied
upon the taxable property of said county
town, be sufficient to defray the cost
of constructing and building such bridge,
and that said County Board also appoint
committee duly authorized to act for
the county, in accordance with section
1919 of the Wisconsin Statutes of 1898, and
acts amendatory thereof and supple
mentary thereto.
Dated and signed by the undersigned
members of the town board of the town
of Hartland county of Pierce and state
of Wisconsin, this 18th day of November
| 1906.
S. p. ROATCH,
ALFRED MEWHORTER,
OLE BJORNSTAD,
Supervisors of said town of Hartland
Attest:
T. J. LIGHTFIELD
Clerk of said Town Of Hartland
Report of Special Bridge Commit
| tee was on motion accepted.
REPORT OF BRIDGE COMMITTEE,
MARTELL.
Martell, Wis, June 70, 1906
To ole J. Hohle, Esq, County Clerk of
| Pierce County:
mittee appointed at the session of the
County Board held in November, A. d.
1905, to act with the Town Board of
Supervisors of the town of Martell in the
letting, construction and acceptance of
| the building of a new steel bridge across
Rush river in the highway between the
| S. w. Il of the S. E. 4 of section number
two (2) and the N. w. a of the N. E. u
of section number eleven QD of town
| ship twenty-seven, north of range seven
teen, and following the section line across
the said Rush river. said location being
the site of a wooden bridge formerly
| known as the Kay bridge, do hereby GER
| tify that we did on the 18th day of De-
| cember A. d. 1905 in conjunction with
the Board of Supervisors of the Town of
Martell let the contract for building said
bridge to M. A. Adams & Co., of Min
neapolis, Minnesota, for the agreed price
of $2,949.00; that said bridge is now COM
| pleted, and that on the 18th day of June,
A. d. 1906, we again met with the Town
! Board of Supervisors of the said town of
| Martell and in conjunction with said
| board inspected such bridge and accepted
| the same, and that the sum of 81, 474. so,
| being one-half of the cost of such bridge.
is now due and payable from said Pierce
county to the town of Martell, and you
are requested to make proper provision
| for the payment of said sum of 81, 474.50 to
said town.
| Dated June II, A. d. 1906.
ED MURPHY,
A. f. BLEISNER,
JOHN FINN,
County Committee.
| The special committee appointed
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