The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-02-21
Revision Committee Of Assembly
Presents Bill Prepared to
Boost Sheridan Drive
PROVIDES ONLY FOR SURVEY
Governor Davidson is to Appoint Com
missioners in Each County to Serve
Without Pay.-Counties to
Fay $500 Each

The Sheridan Drive proposition has
at last showed up in the Wisconsin
Legislature again for Wednesday
afternoon the committee on revision
of the Assembly reported to that body
the bill introduced by Senator Fair
child of Milwaukee. The bill is en-
titled "A Bill for the Building Of a
State Road from the Illinois State
Line to the South Limits of the City
of Milwaukee. 1t does not provide
lor the immediate building of the
road but for survey to be made by
N hich the cost Of such road can be
determined. The bill provides that
the state shall have the power to APP
point board Of ming commissioners,
three FROM Kenosha, three from Ra-
cine and three from Milwaukee county,
and this commission is to have power
to employ engineers to make the sur.
vey with the view of building road
a hundred feet wide following as near
as possible the shores of the lake from
the south limits of Pleasant Prairie
to Milwaukee. The commissioners
to be appointed by the governor are
to serve without pay and the bill
gives the state the right to levy ou
kenosha, Racine and Milwaukee
county for the expenses of the sur
vey.
It is provided by the bill that the
amount TO be so levied shall not ex-
coed the sum of $500 for each county.
The bill provides that the survey
shall be made at once, and that re-
port Of the same shall be filed with
the governor at the earliest possible
time. This would make it possible
for the state to take up the problem
of building the road at the next ses-
sion Of the Legislature, or at special
session later in the year.
The bill makes no provision for
raising the funds that will be needed
for the building of the road, and this
is to be taken up after the report of
the engineers has been filed with the
governor. The cost of the proposed
improvement, as shown by the report,
will largely influence the members of
the legislature in the further consid-
GRAFTON of the matter.
1t is not thought that the hill IN its
present form will meet with any de-
termined opposition, but it is possible
that the farmers residing III the three
counties affected will raise a cry
against paying even for the expense
of making the survey, and it is pretty
certain that the re representatives. of
this county will not be favorable to
the Fairchild measure.
The bill has been introduced at the
request of the Sheridan Drive AS
ISOLATION recently formed IN Milwau-
kee and it is stated that prominent
manufacturers of automobiles in the
three counties who have been most
interested IN the completion of the
road will be willing and ready to give
their time to the work of the commits
sion without receiving any pay from
the state.
There are many people in the three
counties who desire to have the road
built, but it is probable that a special
election to vote on the payment of the
cost of even a survey would result in
a large majority against the proposi-
ton.
The bill has been referred to the
committee on state highways, and it
is probable that it will be reported to
the assembly at an early session.