The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-11-28
Special Committee to Lay Out
Highway System Reports to
County Board
ROADS FOR COUNTY TOWNS
City Members Not Yet Satisfied That
the City Can Be Taxed for These
Roads, and Ask Advice From
the Attorney General

returned to the much vexed question
of the system of county highways
and the special committee named to
lay out the first system of roads to be
improved at the expense Of the coun-
ty made it's report, but no final action
was taken in the matter as the city
members of the Board are not yet
satisfied that tax can legally be
levied against the city for roads to be
built IN the country and the district
attorney was asked to get decision
from the attorney general of the state
in this point. The attorney was called
by telephone Thursday and it
is thought that the decision can be
secured in time for the Board to pro-
coed with the election of highway
commissioner and the levying of the
tax either late Thursday after
noon or by Friday morning.
The report of the committee which
will be of interest to the entireIcounty
is as follows:
''We, your special committee to
whom was referred the matter of re-
porting comprehensive prospective
system of county highways beg leave
to report as follows: That we have
considered:
System No. /. The Burlington road
so called from the limits of the city
of Kenosha westerly and somewhat
northerly through the town of Paris
and through the town of Brighton to
the west line thereof, the west line
of the county of Kenosha.
The Geneva road so called from the
limits of the city of Kenosha westerly
through the towns of Pleasant Prairie
and Bristol, Salem and through the
thereof, the west limits of Kenosha
county.
Also road described briefly as fol-
lows: Commencing at the north
quarter section corner of section num-
Der eight in the town of Salem; thence
south and souther1y following the
road as laid out through the village
of Silver Lake to a point about
one.half mile south of said village,
there turning westerly to the west
line of said town, and continuing in
the town of Randall westerly about
one and one-half miles to the north
and south quarter section line of Sec
ton number twenty-three in said
town, thence south to center of said
section %, thence west through Sec
tons %, % and 81 of said town to the
west line of said section 81, thence
southwest across the southeast quar-
ter of section 20 to the southwest COR
ner of said quarter section, thence
west one mile, thence south one-half
mile, thence west one-ha1f mile to the
west line Of said town, the west line
of Kenosha county.
System No. 2. The Burlington
Road, so-called, as in System No. L.
The Geneva Road from the limits of
the city of Kenosha westerly through
the town of Pleasant Prairie and into
with a road running south to the sta
ton of Woodwork and following this
road to it's intersection with the Will
mot road, so-called, thence following
the Wilmot road, so-called, to the
town OF Bristol and Salem and in the
town of Randall to the west line of
the county; also road commencing
in the Wilmot road, so-cal1ed, at the
village of Wi1mot, running thence
northerly along the Fox river to the
west line of the town of Salem and IN
the town of Wheatland to its inter
section with the Geneva road, So
called, thence following the Geneva
road, so-called, to the said town of
| Wheatland to the west line thereof,
the west line of the county of Keno
| sha.
Of these two possible systems your
committee strongly recommends Sys.
tenn No. l. It has the advantage that
its total mileage is much less than the
other. That is the only possible sys-
tenn that would give the town of Wheat
land direct communication with the
system as a whole and that it treats
all the towns the most equally. AS
System No. gives the town of Salem
an excess of mileage we have attached
hereto a sketch of System No. and
recommend its adoption by your
honorable body.
SENT TO GREEN BAY