River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-12-13
f. A. SEVERANCE.
A. w. CORCORAN,
N. HI. JOHNSON,
al County Bridge COmmitte
REPORT OF BRIDGE COMMITTEE.

Town of Maiden Rock.
Maiden Rock, Wisconsin, July 10, 1906.
To the Honorable Q. J. Hohle County
Clerk Tt Of Pierce County, Wisconsin:
bridge committee, appointed at the regu
lar session of the County Board of SUI
pervisors in and for Pierce county, Wis
consin, held in the month of November,
A. D. 1905, to act with the Town Board
of Supervisors Of the town of Maiden
Rock in the letting, construction and ac-
ceptance of a contract for the building
of a new bridge across Rush River at a
point where the State road from Alma
in Buffalo County, to Prescott in Pierce
County, crosses said Rush River in sec
ton 16 of township "a north of range Is
west do hereby certify and report that
we did on the 21st day of December, 1905,
in conjunction with the Board of Super
visors of the said town of Maiden Rock,
let the contract for building said bridge
to M. A. Adams & Co.. of Minneapolis,
Minnesota, for the agreed and contract
price of one thousand nine hundred nine
ty-nine dollars and fifty cents ($1999.50
nine hundred ninety-nine dollars and sew
enty-five cents to be paid by the Town
of Maiden Rock, and nine hundred ninety
nine dollars and seventy-five cents to be
paid by the County of Pierce as per vote
Of the County Board of Supervisors, and
that the bridge is now completed accord
ing to the specifications by us adopted
and has been this day accepted by us and
the sum of nine hundred ninety-nine dol
lars and seventy-five cents, one-half of
the estimate cost of said bridge is now
due and payable from said Pierce County
to the Town of Maiden Rock, and you
are hereby requested to make proper pro-
vision for the payment of said sum of
nine hundred ninety-nine dollars and sew
enty-five cents $685. 75) to said town
Dated the day and year above written
JAMES GILMORE.
MIKE FOX.
w. j. FOLEY
Special County Bridge Committee
Report of Special Committee on
Roads accepted and adopted
REPORT OF ROAD COMMITTEE.
To the Honorable County Board of Pierce
County:
Whereas, upon the petition of thirty
four (34) resident freeholders of said
county. eighteen of whom reside in the
Town of Martell and sixteen in the Town
of Gilman, praying for the discontinue
ance of portion of highway extend
along the line between the towns of
Martell and Gilman in said county which
portion is described as follows, to-wit:
Commencing at the quarter post in the
north line of section %, thence east on
section line $3.50 chains to right bank of
Rush river; thence north 10 degrees east
5.22 chains to a stake: thence north
degrees west 1880 chains across Rush
river to a post set on left bank at end
of bridge across said river and
Whereas, your honorable body on the
session of your body did duly refer said
petition to us, the undersigned three
members of your board, duly appointed
as committee on roads and bridges with
full power to act in the premises.
Now, therefore, we, your said COM
mittee, do hereby report as follows:
That due notice of the time and place
wherein your said committee would meet
to decide upon said petition was made
and duly signed on the 24th day of No
vember, 1905. a copy of which notice is
hereto attached and marked Exhibit a.
That said notice was duly published for
three successive weeks prior to the time
fixed therein for said meeting in the
Spring Valley Sun, a newspaper publish
ed in said county and that the proof of
publication thereof is hereto attached
and marked Exhibit ''B. =
That pursuant to said notice so made
and published as aforesaid your COM
mittee did meet on the 9th day of De-
cember, 1905, at eleven o'clock in the
forenoon of said day at the residence of
Mrs. Ralph Winger. in the said town of
MarteI in said county, which was the
time and place fixed therefor in said no.
tice and did then and there proceed per-
Sonally to examine said highway and
did hear all reasons that were offered
by parties interested therein and being
unable to decide upon said petition did
adjourn said meeting to the 18th day of
January, 1906. at eleven o'clock in the