River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-12-12

bridge; 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 the last equalized valuation
thereof, which is $40, 500.
Your petitioners therefore pray that the
County Board of Supervisors for said
Pierce county shall appropriate the other
half of the estimated cost of cOnstruc-
ton of said bridge and cause such sum
to be levied upon the taxable property of
the county as will, with the amount pro-
vided by said town, be sufficient to de-
fray the expense of erecting said bridge
and also to appoint committee duly au-
thorized to act for the county in accord
ance with Section No. 1919 of the Stat
utes of 1893 as amended by Chapter 225,
Laws of Wisconsin for 1903.
Dated and signed by the undersigned
members of the Board of Supervisors of
the Town of Oak Grove, County of
Pierce, State of Wisconsin, this fifth day
of November, A. d. 1907.
G. F. GIEBLER,
C. H. HARTMAN,
NJ. F. HUPPERT
Supervisors of the Town of Oak Grove.
Attest:
NJ. ROCK,
Town Clerk
PETITION FROM TOWN OF MAIDEN
ROCK FOR BRIDGE AID.
To the County Board of Supervisors of
Pierce County, Wisconsin:
The Town of Maiden Rock, in the
County of Pierce, State of Wisconsin,
hereby makes and files it's petition with
the County Board of the County of,
Pierce, State of Wisconsin, and repre-
Sents:
That the Town of Maiden Rock in
Pierce county, Wisconsin, has voted to
build, erect and construct a bridge
across that certain slough in the south
west quarter of the southeast quarter of
Section nine, Township twenty-four
north of Range sixteen west, in the town
of Maiden Rock, Pierce county, Wiscon-
sin, where the said slough as crossed by
the Alma and Prescott state road across
Rush river bottoms in said southwest
quarter of the southeast quarter of Sec
ton nine said slough being near Verne
Leavitt's house and about forty rods east
of the iron bridge across Rush River in
said highway, which said bridge is
wholly within said town.
That the said Town of Maiden Rock
has provided for the payment OF half OF
the cost Of such building, erection and
construction of said bridge.
That the cost of the building, erection
and construction of such bridge will be
eighteen hundred dollars, and that said
eighteen hundred dollars, the total cost
ceeds one-eighth of one per centum of
all the taxable property in said town,
according to its last equalized valuation.
Wherefore, the said Town of Maiden
Rock prays that the. County Board OF
Supervisors Of in, and for Pierce county,
wisconsin, appropriate nine hundred dol
lars half of the cost of such bridge,
which said sum, with the amount pro-
vided by said town. will be sufficient to
defray the expenses of erecting and con-
structing such bridge, and cause SAID
sum of nine hundred dollars to be levied
upon the taxable property. of the county.
In Witness Whereof, the said Town of
Maiden Rock has caused this petition to
be signed by its Town Board of Super
visors.
THOS. TODD,
A. G. WESTTEY,
Town Board of Supervisors.
STATE OF WISCONSIN,
I. Charles @0u Julian, Town Clerk of the
Town Of Maiden Rock, do hereby certify
Town of Maiden. Rock according to its
last equalied value, as equaliZed by the
Town Board of Equalization Of the Town
of Maiden Rock, was the sum OF $529,z4o
as the same appears upon the assessment
rolls of the Town of Maiden Rock for the
90 49, CHAs. JULIAN,
Town Clerk.
PETITION FROM TOWN OF SPRING
LAKE FOR BRIDGE AID.
STATE OF WISCONSIN,
County of Pierce. SIS.
To the Honorable the County Board OF
Pierce County:
The petition of the Town Board of the
Town of Spring Lake respectfully shows:
That said Town of Spring Lake did at
it's annual meeting held April 2, 1907, vote
to construct two steel bridges within said
town across the Eau/Galle River, one at
a point where the highway crosses SAID
river on the N. w. II of Sec. 16 in said
town, and one where the highway
crosses said river on the 5. w. II of Sec
So in said town, and did then and there
vote to provide for the payment of one
half of the cost of such bridges, to-wit:
by then and there voting to raise the
sum of twenty-six hundred dollars
($26O0.0O), the estimated cost of each of
such bridges being the sum Of twenty-six
hundred dollars ($260O00).
The cost of each of such bridges ex-
ceeds one-eighth of one per centum OF
all the taxable property of said town ac-
cording to its last, equal1zed valuation:
Your petitioners therefore pray that the
County Board of Pierce County shall APP
propriate the sum of twenty-six hundred
dollars ($2600.00) being the remaining half
of the cost of said bridges, and cause
such sum to be levied upon the taxable
property of the county, as will with the
amount so provided by said town, be
said bridges and to provide for the APP
pointment of a committee to act for the
county as provided in Sec. 1919 r. S. and
acts amendatory thereto.
Dated this oath day of Oct, 1907
S. BROWN,
VIM. FERG,
o. p. HANSON,
Supervisors of the Town of Spring Lake.
Attest:
w. L. YATES
Town Clerk.
Committee on Bonds reported as
follows and the report was accepted.
TO the Honorable, the County Board of
Pierce County:
Your committee on official bonds met at
the Court house on the second day of
July. 1907 to examine the bond of duff
o. Halls appointed to the office of sher-
iff and respectfully report that they have
examined the same and approved thereof
VICTOR E. BAILEY,
A F.. fBLIESNER,
JNO. 2. OLSON,
Committee on Bonds.
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