The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-12-28
COUNTIES To AID IN BUILDING
Meeting Being Held at Milwaukee To-
day at Which Plans Are Being Work
ed Out for Completion of Great High
way to Capitol of the State.

The Wisconsin State Highway Com
mission has taken up the long talked
of proposition of building macadam
road from the state line at the south
limits of Kenosha county through Ra-
cine, Milwaukee and other counties to
Madison and the commission has sent
out a preliminary announcement of
the plans for the road which promises
to be one of the most notable roads
in the middle west.
The plans have not as vet been tax
ep up with the Kenosha county of
ficials, but the state railway commits
sion is including in the great roadway
the lake shore road from Kenosha to
Racine and it is probable that this fact
will be a mighty factor in securing
the improvement of this road before
the end of another year. When the
Racine county board takes up the mat
ter it will take it up under a sugges-
ton from the state commission which
will ask that the county improve what
is known as the GAINESVILLE road.
There was meeting held in Milwau-
kee today of the committees Of the
Racine and Milwaukee county boards
and following this meeting the com
mittees from all other counties will be
called together.
Kenosha county has, provided for the
improvement. of its portion of the road
in the new county system of highways
and the only change that may be made
is in the selection of the route. The
state commission may find some other
road than the lake shore road better
suited as route for the road from the
state line to the state capital. It is
probable that in future years the road
will be extended from Madison TO La
Crosse, but tais is not planned for
next year.
The tentative plan Is to have the
highway boulevarded from Milwaukee
to Madison.
The GAINESVILLE plank road in Mil
waukee county will be bouleyarded
from Forest Home cemetery to the
line separating Milwaukee and Racine
counties. From there Racine county
will carry on the improvement to it's
limits, from which point Kenosha
county will take up the work.
At the meeting today the commit
tees on laws, legislation and rules and
highways and bridges Of the county
board of Milwaukee county will con-
fer with a committee from Racine
county in the office of Hugo Killing.
highway commissioner. Mr.. Killing
has plans of the highway to be boule
varded. Both the plans and the esti-
mated cost of construction will be dis.
cussed by the committees.
Tt is said that the expense will be
about $3.50 mile. In Milwaukee
county between six and seven miles
will be improved.
The GAINESVILLE plank road now aver
ages sixty-two feet wide. Present
plans contemplate "a width OF $50
feet, with a parkway i'll the center,
thirty two feet wide, and a sixteen
foot driveway on each Side Of it. The
surface will be macadamized.
Under the new state law pertaining
to road building the state will bear
third of the cost of construction of a
strip of the roadbed eighteen feet
wide When the county board first
considered the project it was thought
that the state would bear third of
the entire cost of improving the high.
way, but as eighteen feet. is the stand
ard width of roads adopted by the
state. L. H. Bancroft, attorney gen
eral, recently issued an opinion that
the cost of additional roadbed must
be borne by the counties alone.