The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-07-25
Rock County Farmers Ask Keno
sha County Farmers and Auto
Owners To Joinin Movement
MUCH WORK HAS BEEN DONE
Working Under Advice of Legislature,
Rock County Has Built Up Many
Excellent Roads and the
Work Will Continue

Farmers and automobile owners
throughout Kenosha county are re-
ceiv1ng circular letters from the Good
Roads Committee of Rock county ask
ing that they join with the people of
Rock county in an effort to make the
roads of Southern Wisconsin the An
est IN the state and in the West, and
the letters have been very favorably
received by the people of Kenosha
county. In Rock county the work has
been done along the lines suggested
by the Wisconsin Legislature, and as
a result quite few of the roads in
Rock county have been made decid-
eddy better.
The Legislature Of 1901 passed a
law relating to the construction of
rural roads. It was improved by the
next session of lawmakers so that
when the members of the 1905 Legis-
lature made the provision that for
every dollar voted for the construction
of roads in the different townships,
1.-THE County Board must appropriate
dollar for dollar so set aside up to the
sum of $1,000.
This last spring eight townships in
Rock county took advantage of the
law and mad appropriation from the
flown funds for Improvement of their
local roads in sums ranging from $500
to $1,000. The townships of Be1oit
and Clinton headed the list with
81, 900 each.
During the past ten years consider
able experimenting has been gone
through with by the cities of James
vile and Be1oit in building macadam
roads from the limestone quarries
near these cities. The result has not
been satisfactory and the government
engineers will experiment with a
crushed gravel, obtained from the
large sand pits in the county with a
view of determining its value. Thus
aside from the construction of the
the country roads it will be an object
lesson for the cities of the county as
we'll.
Ii the present plan is success and
the roads are built within the cost of
81. 900 a mile, next year will see each
of the twenty towns of the county
making appropriations for mile of
road. The great hinderance to the
construction of the rural roads is the
lack Of proper material and ma chinery
to put It IN shape.
In the town of Center, where the
appropriation was $500, sample road
Of gravel IS being constructed by the
town under the direction of a local
engineer. The road has been graded
and the gravel is being hauled from a
considera BILE distance, two traction
engines being employed in hauling
the string of wagons and another in
running the movable crushing plant
which IS portable and moved from
place to place. There is no heavy
roller available for rolling this road
and the engineer has to content him
self with using split log drag to
secure the proper browning effect. AS
| 1t IS an experiment it is also being
i, watched by other towns whose town
purse is not sufficient to warrant ap-
preparation of large sums for the
roads.
The farmers throughout Rock
county are much interested in the
| move, owing to the fact that during
the fall and spring much tobacco and
sugar beets are hauled from ali parts
OF the county to GAINESVILLE and many
prefer to haul it themselves rather
than lose the bonus for delivery at the
local warehouses and factories.
The automobile owners and mer-
chants have united to aid in the work
OF increasing the good roads system,
and, If the present plans are success
ful, It is safe to say that Rock county
will next summer be studded with
new roads built according to plans
laid down by the government en-
gineers.