River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-12-09

Dated and signed by the undersigned
members of the Board of Supervisors of
the town Of Trimbelle, County of Pierce
and State Of Wisconsin this fourth day
Of November A. d. 1909.
f. A. SEVERANCE,
GEORGE ZIRNHELT, SR.,
JOHN A. QUIST,
Supervisors of the Town Of Trimbelle
Attested by
JOHN T. BEDDALL,
Town Clerk of Trimbelle, Wis.
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors
of Pierce County, State of Wisconsin,
Your petitioners, members Of the Town
Board Of Supervisors of the Town of
Trimbelle, County Of Pierce, State of
Wisconsin,, respectfully represent that
the town of Trimbelle aforesaid did at
their annual town meeting held on the
sixth day of April, 1909, vote to repair a
certain bridge within said town across
the Trimbelle creek at a point where said
creek crosses what is known as the road
leading from Trimbelle to Red Wing, al
so being where the east and west center
line of Section No. Twenty-eight (2S) of
said town crosses said creek. That the
estimated cost of repairing said bridge
is One Thousand Two Hundred Dollars
(1 POO and that the town has provided
for the payment of Six Hundred Dollars
($600.GO, one half the estimated cost of
repairing said bridge, and that the total
valuation of said town according to the
last assessment as equalized by the Coun-
ty Board of Pierce County in November,
1903, is $685., O37.00
Your petitioners therefore pray that the
! County Board of Supervisors for said
Pierce county shall appropriate the other
half of the estimated cost of the repair
of said bridge, and cause such sum to be
levied upon the taxable property of the
vided by said town, be sufficient to de-
fray the expense of repairing said bridge
and also to appoint a committee duly
authorized to act for the county in ac-
cordance with section No. 1919 of the
Wisconsin Statute of 1898, as amended by
Chapter 397 Laws of Wisconsin for 1909.
Dated and signed by the undersigned
members of the Board Of Supervisors of
the town of Trimbelle, County of Pierce
and State of Wisconsin this fourth day
of November, A. D: 1909
r. A. SEVERANCE,
GEORGE ZIRNHELT, SR.,
JOHN A. QUIST,
Supervisors of the Town of Trimbelle.
AtteSted by:
JOHN T. BEDDALL,
Town Clerk of Trimbelle, Wis.
The Board of Supervisors of the Town
of River Falls, acting for and in behalf
of such town respectfully show
That at the spring election of the pres
ent year. the said town voted to raise the
sum of eight hundred dollars to be used
in conjunction with aid to be asked of
the County of Pierce to erect a bridge
near the residence Of c. M. Bredahl in
said town; it appearing upon an eXamin-
alton of the present pile bridge at that
place that new bridge must soon be
erected. That such vote was made with
the intention on the part of such town
to apply under the law for county aid to
the amount of eight hundred dollars.
That subsequently upon an inspection
of the bridges in such town it was found,
that bridge upon one of the most i'm
portant highways in such town, to-Wit,
upon the River Falls and Prescott road
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town was out of repair to such an eX-
tent as to be unsafe for the public travel
and that It was necessary either to make
extensive and costly repairs upon the
same, amounting almost to a reconstruc-
ton of the same, or to build an entire
new bridge. - 800
After consulting with bridge builders it
was determined, that the interest of the
town and of the travelling public would
be best met by the erection Of a perma-
nent structure at such point and it was
found that true regard for economy
and permanence would be best met by
constructing a bridge of stone having a
large arch for the passage of water.
| Accordingly nlans and specifications
were procured and fine arch of stone
was built at a cost to the town of one
thousand dollars the town having by it's
vote authorized the use of the funds pro-
posed to be used in the construction Of
the Bredahl bridge to be diverted to
those expenditures.
Your petitioners further show, that the
of one per cent of the entire assessed
valuation of such town. That had the
town delayed the construction of the
bridge until an election could have been
had for the purpose, it could have de-
manded from the County of Pierce, one
half of the cost of such bridge.
That in the emergency stated, such de-
lay would have been greatly to the detri-
ment of the public inasmuch as such
bridge is the only practicable crossing of
the said Rocky Branch for consider
| able distance in either direction.
! That under the circumstances the town
board decided to repair. the aforesaid
Bredahl bridge so that it would last for
| several years and have done SO at a
will be relieved for some time from con-
tributing to the erection of a new bridge
at that point for the present at least.
Under the circumstances, your pc
| titioners believe that they are justified
in asking the County Board of Pierce
| County to appropriate the sum of five
hundred dollars to aid the said town of
River Falls in making payment for such
bridge and they therefore request of the
County Board that such an appropria-
ton may be made.
Dated Nov. 5th, 1909.
Q. T. BERGSENG,
j. H. MOUNTAIN,
FRED SMITH,
Supervisors of said Town of River Falls.
GEORGE MARTIN,
Town Clerk.
To the Honorable Board the Board of
Supervisors of Pierce County, State of
Wisconsin,:
Your petitioners, members of the Town
j Board of Supervisors of the Town of Oak
| Grove, County of Pierce, State of Wis
consin, hereby respectfully represent that
| the Town of Oak Grove has voted to
| build and construct a steel and concrete
bridge within said town across the dry
run on the Trimbelle & Ellsworth road
| located on the line of the S. w. 4 of
| S. w. Il of Section one and the N. w. "a
| of the n. w. Il of Sec. II, Range 20 of
said town. said location being the site of
| the present wooden bridge. That it was
| determined by the Board that the esti-
mated cost of constructing said bridge
would be one thousand dollars $1,000
| that the said town voted to provide for
! the payment of its share of construction
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